Category: Resource

Living with AVF or AVG

This resource is designed to help nursing home patients, residents and their care partners understand the basics of living with their new Arteriovenous Fistula or Arteriovenous Graft.

A Pathway to Transforming Patient Care through a Pain and Opioid Learning Health System (LHS) Collaborative (POLLC)

Slides from a webinar about a learning community to advance Learning Health Systems to improve pain and opioid management, including implications of learning community activities and products for others. The webinar centers on a panel discussion of learning community benefits to participants and beyond.

Medication Safety Clinical Teach-Back Cards

Reference these cards for information on using the “teach-back” method to explain the basics about medications, prepare your patients to take care of themselves and review side effects. The medication safety team reviewed and updated this card set in August 2024.

CDC’s 2022 Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids Training

This training highlights the 12 recommendations and information on implementation and includes patient scenarios.

Physicians, nurses, and other health professionals can receive free continuing education for this training by registering on CDC TRAIN. Search for course number WB4701 and complete the evaluation. WB4701 Accreditation Statement

Training: CDC’s 2022 Clinical Practice Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Pain

Highlights the 12 recommendations and information on implementation and includes patient scenarios.

Physicians, nurses, and other health professionals can receive free continuing education for this training by registering on CDC TRAIN. Search for course number WB4701 and complete the evaluation. WB4701 Accreditation Statement

Psychotropic Medication Change Package

This Psychotropic Change Package provides a resource with steps toward reducing and managing psychotropic medications in long term care. It includes step-by-step actions with several resources to help the facility plan its psychotropic reduction process, including
an Antipsychotic Action Plan template with SMART (Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant, and Timebound) goals.

The IPRO Patient, Family, and Care Partner Advisor Living Toolkit

The “Patient, Family and Care Partner Advisor (PFCA)” living toolkit outlines best practices and examples for including diverse experiences and voices in healthcare. This toolkit can guide individuals and organizations looking to incorporate patient-centered approaches into their decision-making processes, as well as for direct involvement of PFCA. This toolkit is a valuable resource for PFCAs and healthcare organizations. It is meant to be shared, discussed, and implemented across the healthcare ecosystem.

Health Equity Considerations: HQIC All-Cause Harm Prevention Model & Resource Tool

This resource provides information and resources for advancing health equity in the eight patient safety priority focus areas for hospitals.

https://www.aha.org/aha-clear/tipsheets

A collection of tip sheets that provide hospitals and health systems with tangible strategies to effectively prepare for and respond to varying emergency scenarios including natural disasters, cyberattacks, concurrent emergencies, mass violence incidents and emergencies in rural settings. Each tip sheet features real-world examples and is designed to enhance hospitals’ and health systems’ preparedness and response capabilities.

SNF Key Clinical Services

This tool serves as a template for Skilled Nursing Facilities to identify and share Key Clinical Services they provide so hospitals and other health care providers understand their capabilities.

Tabletop Exercises

After Action Review/Hotwash Lesson

 

Creating an Integrated Care Plan for Nursing Home Residents Receiving Dialysis Treatment  

The Dialysis and Nursing Home Integrated Care plan provides a framework for a discussion to evaluate a resident’s response to dialysis and develop or revise person-centered care plans as needed.

CDC Project Firstline

Adopt Project Firstline

Project Firstline helps healthcare workers understand, think critically, and apply infection control actions.

Project Firstline offers easy-to-use, accurate, and free infection control training resources in multiple formats to align with healthcare workers’ learning needs and preferences. This tool can help you achieve success in providing staff with consistent and effective education related to infection prevention and control, which was developed by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

 IPRO QIN QIO nursing home team recommends that you consider using these resources in a structured way or as a “just in time” learning opportunity.

Substance Use Disorder Treatment and Access Policy and Procedure Toolkit for Nursing Homes and Adult Care Facilities

This Substance Use Disorder (SUD) Treatment and Access Policy and Procedure Toolkit for Nursing Homes and Adult Care Facilities is intended to provide easy-to-adapt policies and procedures for facilities that wish to implement or improve their care for residents with SUD, which includes access to behavioral health resources, medications, telehealth, and referral networks. Most of the policies deal with opioid use disorder treatment, as this was the overarching need identified by nursing homes and adult care facilities; however, this toolkit was designed to be modified, and future updates will include additional substance use disorder policies.