Must complete 28-hours of education in order to sit for the exam.
Register by Feb. 25th 2026 at 4 pm to receive your Pathway Health DON Manual during the course.
Are you ready to empower your nursing leadership team to thrive in today’s dynamic healthcare landscape? Look no further than our comprehensive DON Basics Certification Course provided in partnership with Pathway Health.
Dive into the Essentials: Gain a deep understanding of organizational planning tailored for a Director of Nursing (DON) role.
Master Budget Management: Learn how to navigate budget management intricacies, aligning resident acuity with staff management for optimal outcomes.
Ensure Safety First: Explore essential steps in safety management, ensuring top-tier care for residents while maintaining a secure environment.
Implement Evidence-Based Systems: Harness key systems such as Falls, Wounds, Infection Control, and Pain Management, ensuring evidence-based policies and procedures are seamlessly integrated and consistently followed.
Foster Vital Relationships: Understand the pivotal role of relationships within the healthcare ecosystem, from residents and families to administrators and surveyors.
Navigate Medication Management: Delve into the DON’s crucial role in medication management within the facility, ensuring safe and effective administration.
Empower Through Education: Discover essential components of staff education, empowering your team for excellence in care delivery.
Navigate Documentation and Compliance: Master oversight of MDS, Medicare management, reimbursement, and nursing documentation systems, ensuring compliance and accuracy.
Prepare for Success: Equip yourself with the knowledge and strategies to navigate surveys with confidence, ensuring seamless preparation and management.
Drive Quality Assurance: Understand the DON’s pivotal role in Quality Assurance and QAPI, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and excellence.
Don’t miss this unparalleled opportunity to elevate your nursing leadership to new heights. Enroll in the DON Basics Certification Course today and take the first step towards achieving excellence in healthcare leadership!
Learner Outcomes: Upon completion of this course, attendees will be able to:
- Describe the organizational planning necessary for a DON.
- Verbalize the DON Role in budget management in relation to resident acuity and staff management.
- Describe the essential steps in safety management of resident care.
- Identify key systems (Falls, Wounds, Infection Control, Pain, etc.) and how to ensure evidence based policies and procedures as well as consistent implementation are instituted.
- Verbalize the necessary key human resource “need to knows” for the DON.
- Describe the importance of relationships: Residents, Families, Administrator, IDT, Nursing Management Team, Staff,
- Medical Director, Pharmacy Consultant, Hospital Discharge Planners and Surveyors.
- Describe the DON’s role in medication management in the facility
- Verbalize the necessary staff education components
- Verbalize the DON’s role in oversight of MDS, Medicare management, reimbursement and related documentation systems.
- Verbalize the DON’s role in oversight of the facility nursing documentation system and follow through
- Describe the DON role in preparation and management of the survey process.
- Identify the DON’s role in Quality Assurance and QAPI in the facility.