DNS-CT Certification Virtual Workshop 10/6/2025 Hosted by Pathway, Taught by Colleen Toebe
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Register
- Non-member - $1,061
- Member - $843
Take your leadership and management talents to the next level with the Director of Nursing Services—Certified (DNS-CT) certification. Earning this credential validates your expertise, gives you the advantage among your peers, and helps you improve quality, communication, and resident care throughout your facility. You must be a current RN and have the equivalent of two years of full-time long-term or post-acute care experience, with a minimum of one year of experience either as a DNS or relevant nursing leadership experience to qualify. With the DNS-CT credential behind your name, it shows you have the management skills and knowledge needed to master the challenges of being a DNS. The DNS-CT credential is perfect for directors of nursing services, nursing home administrators, vice presidents of clinical services, and other long-term care professionals with management responsibilities.
Your registration includes three days of online instruction from a Master Teacher covering the 10 courses of the DNS-CT program, access to digital workshop materials, and access to the 10 certification exams. To earn the RAC-CT credential, you must successfully complete the associated final certification exams with a score of 80% or higher. You will have one year from the date of the workshop before they expire. We suggest downloading and saving each PDF to a device of your choice. Although not required, you may print the PDFs at your own expense. If you decide to print your materials, please remember that changes and updates are continually incorporated into the workshop materials.
This workshop will be hosted online, through a virtual platform.
All times are listed in Eastern Time (ET). If you are unsure what time this workshop will begin where you are, please use this link as a quick reference: www.worldtimebuddy.com
Schedule:
- Days: October 6-8
- Time: 10 am - 4:30 pm (ET), daily
Access additional program and workshop information (including CEs and cancellation policy) here.
Hosted by: Pathway Health
Colleen Toebe, MSN, CWCN, RAC-MTA, RAC-MT, DNS-MT
VP of Clinical Services
Pathway Health Services, Inc.
Ms. Toebe variety of professional experience includes critical care, long-term care, assisted living and home care nursing practice. Colleen’s long term care roles include Director of Nursing, Staff Development, Infection Control, Employee Health, Critical Acess Hospital Licensure, Medicare, MDS coordinator, and collaborating with Minnesota Quality Improvement Organization. She also has a desire to promote quality and has a Six Sigma Green Belt in Health Care. Also, Colleen is an MDS Master Trainer and a Medicare University Master Trainer for the American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators. As a Nurse Consultant with Pathway Health, she has excelled in her performance in interim leadership roles both in the long-term care and assisted living. Developing educational programs, MDS 3.0 and Medicare training, as well as serving as a National Clinical Reimbursement Specialist. Colleen continued to develop and implemented educational and mentoring programs for nursing staff throughout the continuum of care. Colleen’s passion is to promote excellence in long term care through education, quality improvement, and facilitating change in the care of our aging society.
Skill Sets
- Interim Director of Nursing
- Interim Nurse Manager
- Interim Assisted Living Director
- Interim MDS Coordinator
- Behaviors
- Fall Prevention
- Infection Control
- Documentation
- MDS Process Audit
- Medicare Reimbursement Specialist
- Survey Preparation
- Survey Recovery
- Quality Assurance Performance Improvement Programs
- ICD 10 Coding