Algester Lodge Nursing Home: Healthcare Promotion & Quality Care

This poster provides an overview of Algester Lodge Nursing Home, detailing its history spanning over 15 years of providing high-quality aged care services, including specialized care for dementia and bariatric patients. It emphasizes the facility's core values centered on continuous improvement, regulatory compliance, emotional support, privacy, and integrated care. The poster outlines Algester Lodge's framework for ethical standards and adherence to government regulations, such as the Australian Aged Care Quality Agency Quality Care Principles and the Aged Care Act, 1997, focusing on resident-centered care. It also covers the project governance structure, highlighting the roles of the Australian government as the project sponsor and clinical officers as project managers, supported by steering groups composed of nurses. Key strategies for healthcare promotion include responsible alcohol policies, pet-friendly policies, smoke-free environments, and structured visitation policies, ensuring a safe and healthy setting for residents, visitors, and staff. The facility's commitment to privacy and protection of personal information is underscored by its adherence to the Privacy Act 1988 and related principles.

Algester Lodge Nursing Home
Committed to providing high-quality aged care
INTRODUCTION
The poster presents the history of Algester Lodge Nursing Home, its
values, framework, and its core services. Similarly, the poster outline the
hospital’s governance structure and lastly the strategies and evidence of
healthcare promotion structure.
CHANGING SETTING
The primary most component towards enhancing aged care quality can be realised through
continuous improvement process. As a result, Algester Lodge is supposed to have a written
plan for its continuous improvement which describes approached that it intent to provide and
how it will realise its responsibilities in accordance to the service standards.
Major requirements for continuous improvement
Continuous improvement cycle
Plan the Improvement: Algester lodge should evaluate it present state and then collect
information and research on various ways to make improvements. So that to ensure that this
becomes a success Algester lodge should search for input and feedback from different
stakeholders. Later it can then develop goals and identify appropriate actions on how to
implement its plan.
Implement the improvement: Algester should test its recommended alternatives to identify
the ideal improvements.
Evaluate the improvement activity: Algester Lodge should evaluate its services to find out
if the improvement process is working as planned.
Action to standardise the improvement process: If the improvement process does not seem to
be successful, Algester Lodge should analyse what can be undertaken differently next time by
going through the cycle once again with a dissimilar plan.
Project Governance Structure
Values of Algester Lodge
Algester Lodge is committed to ensure that it achieve the
followings standards:
 Continuous improvement.
 Compliance with healthcare regulation
 Emotional support
 Privacy and dignity
 Integrating care
History of Algester Lodge
For more than 15 years Algester Lodge Nursing Home has been
offering high-quality aged care.1 The facility offers the
following services aged care, high care, secure dementia care,
low care, respite care, bariatric care, and special needs.
Algester Framework
 The objective of Algester Lodge is to apply ethical
standards and conform to all government regulations
such as Australian Aged Care Quality Agency Quality
Care Principles and the Aged Care Act, 1997.
 To ensure that appropriate processes and systems are
developed, designed, executed and reviewed to attain
resident clinical, spiritual and lifestyle needs by
providing continuous, focussed personal care for aging
persons.
 Committed to providing care services that acknowledge
the values, rights dignity as well as beliefs of residents
and their families.
 Providing systems that allow continuous monitoring and
review of care and service delivery.
 Providing carer giver with constant training and support
and consultation with residents and their family
members to realise its goals.
Priorities of Algester Lodge
Algester Lodge promotes healthy lifestyle for aged people in
different ways like counseling and educational programs, and
financial incentives11. The aim of doing this is to increase and
maintaining functional capacity, enhancing self-care and
inspiring their social network9. Promoting healthy lifestyles by
regulating alcohol use, quitting smoking, exercising, integrating
into the community and taking part in learning activities can
help to prevent the development of numerous diseases and
prevent loss of functional capacity13.
Strategies and Evidence of healthcare Promotion Framework
Resident responsibilities
Alcohol policy: Algester allow responsible drinking practices, where a resident is allowed to
supply their alcoholic beverage and have a bar storing them in their room. However, alcohol is
only allowed if it does not have adverse reactions with the medication.
Pets policy: The facility has allowed their clients to keep with themselves pets since it provide
residents a sense of well-being physical health, but it has to be contained for security of visitors,
residents, and staff.
Smoking policy: Algester is committed to ensure a smoke-free environment by providing safe
and healthy setting for residents, visitors and staff. Smoking in prohibited in the premises and
within five metres of boundary.
Vehicle policy: The facility has on-sire parking for private automobiles and should be parked
exclusively in this parts.
Visitation policy: The visiting time runs from 8.00 AM until 8.00 PM to friends. To direct family
members they are welcomed at any time.
Responsibilities of the Facility
Privacy policy: Algester has committed itself to use all reasonable efforts to ensure the protection
of customer personal information by abiding by the Privacy Act 1988, the Aged Care Act, the
Australian Privacy Principles and the Aged Care Principles.
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Project sponsor(Australian
government)
Project
Manager(Clinical
officer)
ehnacing self-
care and
inspiring social
network
Exercising, and
Integrtaing int the
community
Steering
Group(Nurses)