IPRO ECHO: When the Pain Won’t Stop: Whole Person Care Addressing Chronic Pain

Chronic Pain is a complex issue that is never solely biological. In this series we explore chronic pain from the biopsychosocial perspective. The three domains of chronic pain are: biological (e.g., tissue damage, inflammation); psychosocial (e.g., thoughts and emotions affect pain, memories of pain; social/sociological (e.g., socioeconomic, gender, ethnicity, isolation).

Session 1: Types of Pain and the Effect on the Management of Chronic Pain (10/25/23)

Session 1 Slides

Session 2: Assessing Chronic Pain + Framing Co-occurring Disorders using ASAM criteria (11/8/2023)

Session 2 Slides

Session 3: Intervention Procedures vs. Restorative Therapies & Breakthrough in Chronic Pain Treatment (11/29/2023)

Session 3 Slides

Session 4: Analgesics of the Future & Integrative Thinking about Patient Care (12/13/2023)

Session 4 Slides

Session 5: Tips & Tricks of Non-Opioid Analgesics + Integrating Pain Reprocessing Therapy – PRT+ (1/10/2024)

Session 6: How Pain Meds May Help/Harm & Beyond the Assessment: The Roots of Emotional Pain (1/17/2024)

Session 6 Slides

Session 7: Managing Opioids in Chronic Pain Patients – Starting, Tapering, Converting, Stopping (1/24/2024)

Session 7 Slides

Session 8: Opioids and Chronic Pain – Is Buprenorphine the Preferred Agent? (1/31/2024)

Session 8 Slides

IPRO QIN-QIO Opioid Utilization Dashboard

The IPRO QIN-QIO Opioid Utilization Dashboard is an interactive tool in Tableau that shows geographic comparisons at the state and county levels of de-identified Medicare Part D opioid prescriptions filled within11 states and the District of Columbia in the IPRO QIN-QIO network. We also provide information on the concomitant use of benzodiazepines and opioids. Our goal is to support your efforts, as an organization or a community partner, in improving opioid prescribing practices.

Click here for a Video tutorial on how to use the dashboard

For questions or additional information about this Dashboard, please email Anne Myrka, RPh, MAT, amyrka@ipro.org .

IPRO REDCap Hand Hygiene Project- Nail Care Reminder

This resource is intended to support hand hygiene competency adherence. The 1-page resource summarizes the evidence related to bacteria, resident rights and CDC recommendations to support healthcare staff keeping nails < ¼ inch long. The resource is excellent for staff education that can be shared before or after completing a hand hygiene competency assessment.

Joy in Work

Executive Summary
With increasing demands on time, resources, and energy, in addition to poorly designed systems of daily work, it’s not surprising health care professionals are experiencing burnout at increasingly higher rates, with staff turnover rates also on the rise. Yet, joy in work is more than just the absence of burnout or an issue of individual wellness; it is a system property. It is generated (or not) by the system and occurs (or not) organization-wide. Joy in work — or lack thereof — not only impacts individual staff engagement and satisfaction, but also patient experience, quality of care, patient safety, and organizational performance.

This white paper, published by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), is intended to serve as a guide for health care organizations to engage in a participative process where leaders ask colleagues at all levels of the organization, “What matters to you?” — enabling them to better understand the barriers to joy in work, and co-create
meaningful, high-leverage strategies to address these issues.
The white paper describes the following:
* The importance of joy in work (the “why”);
* Four steps leaders can take to improve joy in work (the “how”);
* The IHI Framework for Improving Joy in Work: nine critical components of a system for ensuring a joyful, engaged workforce (the “what”);
* Key change ideas for improving joy in work, along with examples from organizations that helped test them; and
* Measurement and assessment tools for gauging efforts to improve joy in work.

LACE Tool

The LACE index identifies patients that are at risk for readmission or death within thirty days of discharge. It incorporates four parameters.

LINKS Portfolio: Cardiac Rehabilitation

The IPRO QIN-QIO has prepared LINKS (Local Interactive Network of Knowledge Sharers) education materials and guidance to help spread awareness about health topics relevant to your community members and support population health.

Cardiac Rehabilitation: What You Need to Know

Help spread awareness about the health benefits of cardiac rehabilitation, for patients with certain conditions.


https://drive.google.com/file/d/1sA2cG7u1JXbxZZ7dpIDUfc7LCHpj7EOc/view?usp=share_link

Cardiac Rehabilitation: Building Awareness and Restoring Heart Health

This PowerPoint presentation is about cardiac rehabilitation and can be adapted to fit the needs of your specific audience or community.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qwXAkFN3Oz_XrMZaMMvgkux2bdomaMih/edit?usp=share_link&ouid=103685187999998386862&rtpof=true&sd=true

LINKS Portfolio: Diabetes

The IPRO QIN-QIO has prepared LINKS (Local Interactive Network of Knowledge Sharers) education materials and guidance to help spread awareness about health topics relevant to your community members and support population health.

Diabetes Prevention and Management: What You Need to Know

Help spread awareness about what diabetes is and what patients/community members can do to prevent or better manage diabetes with this fact sheet.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/12xYCja9rZCeejxZZqL9N44vGIwVTNPQL/view?usp=share_link

Diabetes: Staying Healthy through Prevention and Self-Management

This PowerPoint presentation is about diabetes prevention and self-management and can be adapted to fit the needs of your specific audience or community.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Ab-kLPooYNi5qier0fkOgXp7ZoYqSwB7/edit?usp=share_link&ouid=103685187999998386862&rtpof=true&sd=true

LINKS Portfolio: Falls Prevention

Knowledge Sharers education materials and guidance to help spread awareness about health topics relevant to your community members and support population health.

Falls Prevention: What You Need to Know

Help spread awareness about falls and what patients/community members can do to prevent them with this fact sheet.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VcNKowdTNedIMkH4QhbhOafENoJsLJt7/view?usp=drive_link

Falls Prevention Presentation

This PowerPoint presentation is about falls prevention and can be adapted to fit the needs of your specific audience or community.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LGNfeZstiEO5Pk38CYIQCg1hvXcF4uk8/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=103685187999998386862&rtpof=true&sd=true

LINKS Portfolio: Health Equity

The IPRO QIN-QIO has prepared educational materials to help spread awareness about health topics relevant to your community members and to support population health. Each LINKS portfolio introduces a health-related topic and resources for more information. This is the cover for the LINKS Health Equity portfolio.

Health Equity Brief

This issue provides data about health equity and factors that impact health, it also highlights actions that healthcare professionals and consumers can take to support equitable care in their communities.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CD6ZAVXNDLWnZxGMcAqVJOWdx03tIMIl/view?usp=drive_link

Health Equity: Staying Healthy Through Awareness

This PowerPoint presentation is about health equity and can be adapted to fit the needs of your specific audience or community.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1VY4hhXcDj8R12TR9W5rLG42TTIXzhFPy/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=103685187999998386862&rtpof=true&sd=true

LINKS Portfolio: Hypertension

The IPRO QIN-QIO has prepared LINKS (Local Interactive Network of Knowledge Sharers) education materials and guidance to help spread awareness about health topics relevant to your community members and support population health.

Hypertension: What You Need to Know

Help spread awareness about what hypertension is and what patients/community members can do to prevent or better manage hypertension with this fact sheet.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xMNuKJydDnj4CLFPphBawXyHrF-FYZJA/view?usp=share_link

Hypertension: Staying Healthy through Prevention and Self-Management

This PowerPoint presentation is about hypertension prevention and self-management, and can be adapted to fit the needs of your specific audience or community.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1JFMyBYsXTT5KISVtPR7QodWJu99H2nd_/edit?usp=share_link&ouid=103685187999998386862&rtpof=true&sd=true

LINKS Portfolio: Immunization

The IPRO QIN-QIO has prepared educational materials to help spread awareness about health topics relevant to your community members and to support population health.

The following educational materials are intended to be adopted/adapted and shared to increase awareness about immunizations and enhance the health of your community:

Immunization Issue Brief

Help spread awareness about the importance of vaccines to protect against vaccine-preventable diseases and promote healthy communities.

Adult Immunization Presentation

This PowerPoint presentation is about immunization and why it matters. The presentation slides can be adapted to fit the needs of your specific audience or community.

Handout Adult Immunization Card

This resource can be provided to consumers/patients to record and track their immunizations.

Handout: COVID-19 Updated Vaccine What You Need to Know Flyer

This handout can be provided to patients/consumers who want to know more about the COVID-19 vaccine.

Handout: Influenza Vaccine What You Need to Know Flyer

This handout can be provided to patients/consumers who want to know more about the influenza vaccine.

Handout Pneumococcal Vaccine What You Need to Know Flyer

This handout can be provided to patients/consumers who want to know more about the pneumococcal vaccine.