Step-by-step guidance to implement an effective pain management program
Countless nursing home residents have pain or risk factors for having pain. However, pain in frail elderly patients is often hard to detect and treat. Learn how to do this effectively, despite the challenges, with the Tool Kit for Implementation of the Clinical Practice Guideline for Pain Management. It will help you improve pain management at your facility with proven processes and approaches.
The Tool Kit for Implementation of the Clinical Practice Guideline for Pain Management contains the tools and information you need to provide your staff, management, and practitioners with information and training about identifying and managing pain. AMDA’s clinical practice guideline on pain management provides the framework for good clinical practice and offers information that is not found in the nursing home regulations. It is the result of extensive research evidence, expert consensus, and professional opinion.
About AMDA Tool Kits
With the Tool Kit for Implementation of the Clinical Practice Guideline for Pain Management, 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 Guideline for Pain Management 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 Guideline for Pain Management contains all the tools you will need to implement the pain management CPG program at your facility. The kit includes:
- The Pain Management in the Long Term Care Setting Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) is the basis of the program. It outlines many of the myths and misperceptions about pain caused by nonmalignant conditions and barriers to effective pain management, and offers steps for overcoming these barriers. The guideline has an acute pain component to address the CMS quality initiative measure for pain.
- a detailed instructor’s guide
- the clinical practice guideline for pain management
- frequently asked questions (FAQs)
- template letters to the attending physicians, care team, and family members informing them of your initiative
- an at-a-glance summary of physician responsibilities
- a Task Assignment Grid to select care team members for performance of specific tasks in pain evaluation and management policies and procedures
- a one-page check list for policies and procedures implementation
- pocket cards containing the signs and symptoms—including items from the Minimum Data Set, Section J—that may suggest the resident has pain
- Pain Intensity Scales in English and foreign languages
- a list of Quality Indicators for the Pain
- a laminated Measurement Tool for Clinical Practice Implementation that contains a suggested quantitative process and clinical outcomes measures related to implementation of the Pain Management in the Long-term Care Setting clinical practice guideline
- web resource listing
- visual aides for patients in pain combine words and pictures to ease and improve communication between medical staff and residents
The kit also contains tools for inservice training of facility staff, including:
- PowerPoint® inservices for physicians and advanced practitioners, nurses, and CNAs with slide notes corresponding to each side set
- CD-ROM with tools and template letters
- pertinent journal articles
- laminated medication error prevention references
- a laminated medication administration checklist
- an opioid equianalgesic dosing guide
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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