Pressure Ulcers Tool Kit for Implementation of the Clinical Practice Guidelines
Product Description:
Step-by-step guidance to improve pressure ulcer prevention and management
This comprehensive tool kit walks medical directors, physicians, and facility staff through each step of implementing a pressure ulcer prevention and management program in their facility.
With the Tool Kit for Implementation of the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Pressure Ulcers you’ll get the process-oriented best practices you need to provide first-rate, person-centric, survey-compliant resident care. The user-friendly tools and resources allow you to easily educate every member of the interdisciplinary care team, ensuring consistency while saving your staff valuable time and effort.
The information and policies found in Tool Kit for Implementation of the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Pressure Ulcers do not conflict with any existing nursing home policies and procedures. With solid care processes in place, you can rest assured that regulations will fall in line.
The Tool Kit for Implementation of the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Pressure Ulcers includes:
- The Pressure Ulcers Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) is a tool to assist the interdisciplinary care team through a process of recognition, diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of pressure ulcers in the long term care facility resident. Tables include information on major risk factors for developing pressure ulcers, pressure ulcer classification, and preventive measures. The guideline also includes the Braden Scale for predicting pressure ulcer risk and a sample guide to pressure ulcer assessment
- a detailed instructor’s guide
- template letters to the attending physicians, care team, and family members informing them of your initiative
- a summary of physician responsibilities at-a-glance
- a Task Assignment Grid to select care team members for performance of specific tasks in pressure ulcer management
- a policies and procedures document outlining which P & Ps you will need to carry out the guideline
- a one-page checklist for policies and procedures to be used as training guide
- a list of Quality Indicators for the Pressure Ulcer Guidelines
- a laminated Measurement Tool for Clinical Practice Implementation that contains a suggested quantitative process and clinical outcomes measures related to implementation of the pressure ulcers clinical practice guidelines.
- Frequently asked questions (FAQs)
- “Be a Pain Detective” tools for the nursing staff
- Web resource listing to go to for more information.
The kit also contains tools for in-service training of facility staff, including:
- PowerPoint® inservices for physicians, advanced practitioners , nurses and CNAs with slide notes corresponding to each slide set
- An inservice video on CD for pressure ulcer risk and patient care just for nursing assistants
- CD-ROM with tools and template letters
- a poster
The American Medical Directors Association (AMDA) is the professional association of medical directors and physicians practicing in the long term care continuum, dedicated to excellence in patient care by providing education, advocacy, information and professional development.
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