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Patient and Resident Safety
Simple Strategies: Engagement and Sleep Hygiene
This resource is intended to help nursing home staff prevent resident falls through engagement and good sleep hygiene.
Medication Safety, Patient and Resident Safety
Simple Strategies: Medication Management
This resource is intended to help nursing home staff prevent resident falls through medication management.
Medication Safety
Tips for Using Medicines Safely
This resource offers four tips to help patients, families and caregivers use medications safely.
Advance Care Planning
Advance Directives by State
The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization offers free advance directives and instructions for each state.
Advance Care Planning
Prepare for Your Care
Prepare for Your Care is a step-by-step program that uses video stories to help you develop your advance directive and is available in 10 languages.
Advance Care Planning
Trusted Decision Maker Form
Developed by the Providence Institute for Human Caring and distributed in partnership by CAKE, this downloadable document communicates your health care preferences.
Advance Care Planning
Advance Care Directives
The U.S. National Library of Medicine’s Medline Plus website offers easy-to-understand information on advance directives including living wills, do-not-resuscitate orders and more.
Advance Care Planning
National POLST website
The national POLST website offers state-by-state information on the availability of and resources for Portable Physician Orders on Treatment preferences.
Medication Safety, Patient and Family Engagement
Medication Log
This resource is intended to help older adults keep track of the medications they are taking, the dose, time of day, reason for taking and the doctor who prescribed the medication.
Advance Care Planning
Video: Who Will Speak for You?
This two-minute video from The Conversation Project highlights how it might feel when trying to choose a health care proxy.
Advance Care Planning
Toolkit for Health Care Advance Planning
The American Bar Association’s Toolkit for Health Care Advance Planning offers nine tools to help with all aspects of advance care planning.
Advance Care Planning
Getting Your Affairs in Order: Advance Care Planning
The National Institutes of Health Institute of Aging: Advance Care Planning website offers information about advance care planning and a checklist to make sure arrangements are in place before serious illness or a health care crisis.
Advance Care Planning
The Conversation Project
The Conversation Project is dedicated to helping people talk about their wishes for end-of-life care. The website offers tools and resources to help you get the conversation started today.
Advance Care Planning
Advance Care Planning Resources
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Geriatrics and Extended Care website offers resources to help with all aspects of advance care planning.
Chronic Care Management
Chronic Care Management Comprehensive Care Plan Template
This resource is intended to help clinicians develop a care plan for patients with chronic conditions.
Patient and Resident Safety
Simple Strategies: Falls Prevention
This resource is intended to help nursing home staff prevent resident falls.
Patient and Resident Safety
Simple Strategies: Environmental Safety and Fall Prevention
This resource is intended to help nursing home staff prevent resident falls by reducing environmental hazards.
Medication Safety, Patient and Family Engagement, Patient and Resident Safety
Be Prepared for Medical Appointments: Build Your Question List
This resource is intended to help patients and caregivers know what questions to ask their doctor about prescription medications, medical tests, new diagnoses, treatment for an illness or condition, recommended surgery, and questions to ask when choosing a health plan, health care provider or long-term care.
Diabetes
It’s Good to Know About Your Diabetes
This resource is intended to help patients and caregivers manage their diabetes including tracking A1C (average blood sugar), blood pressure, HDL (good cholesterol), Triglycerides (fats), yearly dilated eye exam, diet and exercise, foot exam history and vaccine history.
Infection Prevention
Poster: Donning and Removing Personal Protective Equipment
This resource illustrates the order for donning and removing personal protective equipment.
Infection Prevention
UTI Quality Measure Tip Sheet
Patient and Resident Safety, Pressure Ulcers
Pressure Injury Quality Measure Tip Sheet
This resource is intended to help nursing home staff understand MDS Coding for high-risk residents with pressure injuries.
Antipsychotic Medications, Medication Safety
Antipsychotic Quality Measure Tip Sheet
COVID-19, Telehealth
Leveraging Telehealth to Mitigate the Spread of COVID-19
This webinar discusses how to provide telehealth services in the physician practice setting during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19, Patient and Resident Safety
Patient Safety Considerations During COVID-19
This webinar highlights the patient safety considerations associated with patients delaying necessary health care as a result of COVID-19.
Antibiotic Stewardship, COVID-19, Infection Prevention
Simple Strategies – Antibiotic Stewardship to Prevent Adverse Drug Events
This resource is intended to help nursing home staff capture risk factors during the nurse-to-nurse assessment to prevent adverse drug events.
Antibiotic Stewardship, C. diff, COVID-19, Infection Prevention
Simple Strategies – Antibiograms for Reducing Exposure to Antibiotics
This resource is intended to help nursing home staff understand antibiograms and how to use one to reduce unnecessary exposure to antibiotics.
Infection Prevention, Sepsis
Patient and Family Guide to Understanding Sepsis
This guide defines sepsis, who is most at risk, outlines the signs and symptoms and what family members can do if they suspect a loved one may have sepsis.
Quality Improvement
Building the Business Case for Quality Improvement
This template helps health care leaders and staff arrange their thoughts and document important elements of their organization’s quality improvement initiative.
Infection Prevention
Clean Hands Save Lives
This poster explains when to clean your hands to prevent the spread of germs.
Infection Prevention
Hand Hygiene for Residents
This poster reminds nursing home staff to remind residents to wash their hands to prevent the spread of germs.
Patient and Resident Safety, Pressure Ulcers
Four P’s to Purposeful Rounding
This tool is intended to help nursing homes reduce the number of falls in their facility, particularly among new admissions and residents at high risk for falls.
Patient and Resident Safety, Pressure Ulcers
Pressure Free Zone – Preventive Skin Care
This resource is intended to educate nursing home staff on the typical seasonal increase of pressure injuries during winter with a focus on pressure injury prevention.
Patient and Resident Safety, Pressure Ulcers
Pressure Free Zone – Pressure Points
This poster highlights preventative skin care to prevent pressure ulcers.
Patient and Resident Safety, Pressure Ulcers
Pressure Free Zone – Repositioning
This resource is intended to focus nursing home staff on repositioning as a pressure injury prevention intervention.
Patient and Resident Safety, Pressure Ulcers
Pressure Free Zone – Tip the Waiter
This resource explains the pressure relief technique, “Tip the Waiter.”
Patient and Resident Safety, Pressure Ulcers
Pressure Free Zone – Incontinence Management
This resource is intended to focus nursing home staff on the importance of toileting and incontinence care in the prevention of pressure injuries.
Patient and Resident Safety, Pressure Ulcers
Pressure Free Zone – Pressure Points Poster – Incontinence Management
This poster offers tips for incontinence management in the prevention of pressure injuries.
Patient and Resident Safety, Pressure Ulcers
Pressure Free Zone – Friction and Shear
This resource is intended to focus nursing home staff on proper prevention techniques that reduce friction and shear.
Patient and Resident Safety, Pressure Ulcers
Pressure Free Zone – Daily Skin Check
This resource is intended to focus nursing home staff on completing skin assessments on all residents during care in assessment of skin.
Patient and Resident Safety, Pressure Ulcers
Pressure Free Zone – Float Heels
This resource is intended to focus nursing home staff on prevention techniques that reduce the risk of heel pressure injuries and to reinforce the importance of heel assessments during care.
Patient and Resident Safety, Pressure Ulcers
Pressure Free Zone – Nutrition and Hydration
This resource is intended to focus nursing home staff on the importance of adequate nutritional and fluid intake and of immediately reporting sudden changes in intake for investigation.
Patient and Resident Safety, Pressure Ulcers
Pressure Free Zone – Pressure Points Poster – Nutrition and Hydration
This poster highlights symptoms nursing home residents at risk for malnutrition and dehydration may have and what staff can do.
Patient and Resident Safety, Pressure Ulcers
Pressure Free Zone – Skin Protection
This resource is intended to focus nursing home staff on the importance of the skin as the first line of defense in protecting the body from harm and to reinforce the staff’s role in providing care that promote skin integrity.
Patient and Resident Safety, Pressure Ulcers
Pressure Free Zone – Pressure Points Poster – Skin Protection is Prevention
This poster highlights the importance of skin protection in the prevention of pressure injuries and what nursing home staff can do to protect residents’ skin.
Patient and Resident Safety, Pressure Ulcers
Pressure Free Zone – Introduction
The Pressure Free Zone program is a turnkey educational toolkit to assist nursing homes with ongoing prevention and elimination of facility-acquired pressure injuries.
Patient and Resident Safety, Pressure Ulcers
Pressure Free Zone – Five Simple Steps to Get Started
This resource outlines five simple steps you can take to get started with the Pressure Free Zone program.
Patient and Resident Safety, Pressure Ulcers
It’s Time to Take the Pressure Off
This brochure is a pressure injury prevention and treatment guide for nursing home residents, families and staff.
Pressure Ulcers
Quality Measure Tip Sheet – Pressure Injuries
This resource outlines the MDS coding requirements for high risk residents with pressure injuries (long stay) and tips for proper coding.
Patient and Resident Safety, Pressure Ulcers
Pressure Points Pocket Card
This resource illustrates pressure points and proper positioning and offers tips for reducing nursing home residents’ risk of pressure injuries.
COVID-19, Infection Prevention, Patient and Resident Safety
Simple Strategies – Know When to Practice Hand Hygiene
This resource explains when to practice hand hygiene.
Antibiotic Stewardship, COVID-19, Infection Prevention, Patient and Resident Safety
Long-Term Care Antibiotic Stewardship Resources
This guide offers antibiotic stewardship resources for nursing homes.
COVID-19, Infection Prevention, Patient and Resident Safety
Simple Strategies – Every Resident Every Time
This resource explains Standard Transmission Precautions and the importance of using these precautions with every resident, every time.
COVID-19, Infection Prevention, Patient and Resident Safety
Simple Strategies – Personal Protective Equipment
This resource describes how to properly use personal protective equipment.
COVID-19, Infection Prevention, Patient and Resident Safety
Simple Strategies – Environmental Cleaning and Infection Prevention
This resource helps nursing homes assess their current environmental cleaning practices.
COVID-19, Infection Prevention, Patient and Resident Safety
Simple Strategies – Use Friction
This resource explains how to use friction for proper hand hygiene.
COVID-19, Infection Prevention, Patient and Resident Safety
Do One Thing Differently – Know WHEN to Practice Hand Hygiene
This resource explains when to practice hand hygiene.
Antibiotic Stewardship, Medication Safety, Patient and Resident Safety
Nursing Home Antibiotics Word Search
This tool is intended to help patients and families become more aware of antibiotics, when they are used and when they are not used.
Adverse Drug Events, Antibiotic Stewardship, Infection Prevention, Medication Safety, Patient and Resident Safety
Nursing Home Suspected UTI Action Tool
This tool is intended to guide nursing home staff in the initial evaluation of possible urinary tract infection (UTI) in residents without a urinary catheter.
COVID-19
COVID-19 Focused Survey Readiness Book
This resource is intended to help nursing homes prepare for the COVID-19 Focused Survey.
COVID-19, Patient and Resident Safety
Resources to Decrease Risks of Social Distancing & Isolation Precautions
This document provides nursing homes with easy access to evidence-based resources to help prevent falls and pressure injuries.
COVID-19
Be Prepared – LTC Infection Prevention Education
This PowerPoint presentation is intended to be used by nursing home leadership to educate staff on infection prevention.
COVID-19, Infection Prevention
HQIN Infection Prevention Resources
This guide offers infection control resources for nursing homes from a variety of sources including the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Association for Professionals in Infection and Control.
COVID-19, Infection Prevention, Patient and Resident Safety
Simple Strategies for Infection Prevention – Don’t Touch Your Face!
This resource is intended to remind nursing home staff and residents not to touch their face and offers tips for infection prevention.
COVID-19, Infection Prevention, Patient and Resident Safety
Don’t Touch Your Face poster
This poster reminds nursing home staff and residents not to touch their face as an infection prevention strategy.
COVID-19, Infection Prevention
Infection Prevention and Control Recommendations for Patients with Suspected or Confirmed Cases of COVID-19
This resource outlines the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s infection prevention and control recommendations and rationale for the recommendations.
COVID-19, Infection Prevention
Hand Hygiene Competency Validation – SPICE Tool
This tool is intended to help health care providers assess staff understanding of hand hygiene.
COVID-19, Infection Prevention
Respiratory Protection: N95 vs. Surgical Mask
This tool is intended to help health care providers assess staff understanding of hand hygiene.
COVID-19, Telehealth
Tips for Engaging Patients via Telehealth
This resource shares tips for clinician practices on how to clearly communicate the practice’s telehealth technology, processes, guidelines and service information.
Adverse Drug Events, Antibiotic Stewardship, COVID-19, Infection Prevention, Patient and Resident Safety
Simple Strategies for Antibiotic Stewardship
This resource offers tips and information about antibiotic stewardship to prevent adverse drug events.