Category: Resource

Link to Informational Webinar.

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, to support population health.

Sepsis: What You Need to Know

Help spread awareness about what sepsis is and what patients/community members can do to prevent it with this fact sheet.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1lL2kbgezd1LH-t3CzkIn7jkPXRqAH08x/view?usp=share_link

Sepsis: Staying Healthy Through Awareness

This PowerPoint presentation is about what sepsis is, how to help prevent sepsis, and ways to build awareness about it for patients/consumers. The presentation slides can be adapted to fit the needs of your specific audience or community.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19lAkuBfhb54DpnrmKhjltENQ8EV20hSW/edit?usp=share_link&ouid=103685187999998386862&rtpof=true&sd=true

This comprehensive document helps patients and families track current medications, vaccinations, health conditions and other important medical information.

Use with Quality Improvement and Care Coordination: Implementing the CDC Guideline for Prescribing Opioids for Chronic Pain document and the Opioid and Pain Management Best Practice Aggregate Results Dashboard.

This toolkit outlines six tips to help your LTCF care for your residents with OUD and the co-occurring use of stimulants. Administrators, directors of nursing (DON), medical directors, social workers, nurses, and certified nursing assistants (CNA) can all use these resources. This toolkit will help you comply with state and federal policies and provide evidence-based care to residents with OUD and SUD. Each tip has a list of suggested policies, processes, and educational resources to help your LTCF be better prepared to work with and provide continuity of care to those residents. Finally, in the appendices you will find a table of pharmacotherapy options, process maps for transitions of care, and template forms.

Submit QIN QIO Resources. Form for IPRO staff use.

Step-by-step instructions to create a personalized account in IPRO Learn.

The RTI Treatment Action Plan template can assist Nursing Homes in assessing the management of respiratory tract infections in the facility. The template includes examples of root cause analysis, SMART goals, PDSA cycles, resources, and a staff pre and posttest knowledge assessment. The Action Plan is created in Word format to allow the user to modify the content to meet facility specific needs.

New Resource for Nursing Home Educators

IPRO and the Opioid Response Network (ORN) have
developed an education series for use by nursing home
staff educators. This education series will address the
often missed, yet impactful issues of addiction, trauma,
stigma, and chronic pain management.
This pre-packaged, two-month, six-module education
series includes:
• Three live webinars, with Delores Blackwell, PhD
(before, during and after the series) for educators to
review the education materials supplied and receive
support in presenting the content.
Educational content for all staff in a series of six
education sessions designed to last 25-30 minutes
each. Included for each session:
▪ Six prerecorded modules (15 minutes)
▪ Written materials to support discussion led by the
educator (10-15 minutes)

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

The Monthly Falls Tracking Form was developed to assist facilities track their falls on a monthly basis. It maintains an active list of all falls in real time to assist with both investigation and provide an important piece in the development of a targeted fall prevention program. (See instructions below on how to download the tracking form.)

Complete this form to receive a link to download a zipped folder of the Falls Tracking Resources to include the Excel tracking form as well as a PDF instructional guide that explains the use of the tool: https://forms.office.com/r/7h3ygCb9ki

For questions on the Monthly Falls Tracking Form and Guide, please contact Dave Johnson (djohnson@ipro.org) or IPRONursingHomeTeam@IPRO.org.

Guide to Improve Care Transitions

These resources supplement the National CLAS Standards education series and can help organizations assess and implement practices that align with the HHS National Standards for Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) in Health and Health Care to promote health equity and patient-centered care.

Culturally and linguistically appropriate services (CLAS) ensure that the services your organization provides are respectful and responsive to each patient’s culture and communication needs. The Case for CLAS Flyer outlines why this makes good business sense.

The CLAS Engagement Flyer provides explains CLAS, why it is important, and the impact on patient care. https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hdJ4lPu0F1d41LFl6Iab0uSKt0LCDaEo

CLAS Action Plan https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yCgKkinWhrfGOb2dscVkqsX37Ki4tlN6/view?usp=share_link

Slides from the IPRO CLAS Educational Series

Session 1: An Introduction to the National CLAS Standards. https://drive.google.com/open?id=11416K5CPieDJUQ26NJhN05IdZGudoz6A

Session 2: CLAS Principal Standard, Theme 1: Standards 2-4. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1oEj4Qlv6UfGiGgdndzQy7O4WzQMUSNjO/view?usp=share_link

Session 3: Theme 2, Standards 5 – 8. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1QjeP4BxSUYG07ggE3zNTJpEX9JAGxzsj/view?usp=share_link

Session 4: Theme 3, Standards 9 – 11. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1h6_dinEKw6FzX8w9hL2PwOYGbfuX4LPJ/view?usp=share_link

Session 5: Theme 3, Standards 12 – 15 https://drive.google.com/file/d/162uMG6VpzRqF3A2P6CDI4U2wiUp_5y-Z/view?usp=share_link

CLAS Resource List

This document is a compilation of all the resources discussed in the IPRO series on the HHS National CLAS standards. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YTWikRPaVrLqOK-mDeSJvgkR5UuHxfoB/view?usp=share_link

This RCA tool is one of those that we recommend for hospitals.