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Fall Management & Restraint-free Resources:
1. Primaris
Free and easily downloadable fall and restraint-free management resources such as assessment tools, alternative device guides and professional/family educational materials.
2. Nevada Caregiver Support Center: Restraint-free approaches to Dementia Care
Online course designed to teach how to deal with challenging behaviors that commonly occur in individuals with Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias. Ten free online lessons shows how to reduce behaviors such as wandering/ exit seeking, physical or verbal aggression, repetitive questions or statements, disruptive vocalizations, paranoid behavior, and inappropriate sexual behavior without the use of physical or chemical restraints.
3. Colorado Foundation for Medical Care: Restraint Reduction Materials
Resident-centered resource for restraint reduction, including free PowerPoint presentations and web-based training by leaders in restraint reduction.
4. Untie the Elderly: Kendal Corporation
Clinical consultation and training for providers to eliminate the use of physical restraints and side rails in senior living communities.
5. AHRQ: The Falls Management Program
A free interdisciplinary quality improvement initiative designed to assist nursing facilities in providing individualized, person-centered care, and improving their fall care processes and outcomes through educational and quality improvement tools.
6. Falls in Long-term Care: Clinical Practice Guidelines
Clinical practice guidelines and tools for the management of falls in long-term care. Includes guidelines targeting risk, prevention, and injuries.
7. Falls in Long-term Care: Physical Restraints and Side Rails
Clinical practice guidelines and tools for the management of restraints and side rails in long- term care. Includes sections dedicated to side rails, individualized care, and restraint-use.
8. Premier: Fall Prevention
Provides a summary of the issues, strategies and tools to define and measure falls, identify risks, and target prevention strategies.
9. Fall Prevention Center of Excellence
This website provides evidence-based tools, websites and articles related to falls.
10. Annals of Long-term Care: Preventing Falls in Nursing Homes
Review of current fall prevention strategies in long-term care settings.
Retention Resources:
1. National Clearinghouse on the Direct Care Workforce
Categorized by resource type and topic, this database houses fact sheets, training materials, surveys, and “how to” guides.
2. Advancing Excellence Campaign
Assisting nursing homes in achieving goals outlined by the campaign—this website provides implementation tools such as fact sheets, webinars, guides, and glossaries.
3. LEAP
A comprehensive workforce development program that encourages staff retention and develops staff-resident relationships through person-centered care.
4. TeamSTEPPS
An evidence-based teamwork system to optimize patient outcomes by improving communication and teamwork skills. Available to download are the Teamwork Attitudes Questionnaire, instructor guide, and the Rapid Response Systems guide.
5. University of Iowa’s Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center
Through intervention-based research, this Research Center outlines opportunities for training and upcoming conferences.
6. Employee Assistance Program
An online directory of providers to assist with implementing an EAP program. This list can be used for contacts and referrals to provide professional counselors who offer confidential assessments and short-term counseling to employees and their families.
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7. Hardwiring Excellence by Q. Studer
A practical how-to guide for creating and sustaining a culture of excellence with employee retention, customer service, strong leadership, and increased communication.
8. Leading Change by J.P. Kotter
A comprehensive eight-step framework to approach organized change through effective leadership.
9. It’s Your Ship by M. Abrashoff
Steps to increase productivity by shifting organizational principles from obedience to performance, this book outlines how to handle challenges such as excessive costs, low morale, and constant turnover.
10. Solving the Frontline Crisis in Long-Term Care: A Practical Guide to Finding and Keeping Quality Nurse Assistants by K. Pillemer
Provides practical tips based off best practice models from around the country. Learn how to accurately diagnose turnover challenges, calculate turnover rates, and develop steps to improve retention.
Pressure Ulcer Prevention & Treatment Resources:
1. Primaris
Free and easily downloadable pressure ulcer prevention and treatment resources such as assessment tools, alternative device guides and professional/family educational materials.
2. Wound Care Information Network
Designed for patients, clinicians, and administrators---this website provides tools covering topics such as Medicare guidelines, debridement, staging, reimbursement and more.
3. Medline
A privately-held national manufacturer and distributor of health care supplies and services, Medline customers can receive tools and resources like the Compass Program for free.
4. Wound Care Academies – Coloplast and Smith and Nephew
Complementary online programs available on wound assessment, documentation, lower extremity wounds, and pressure ulcer prevention. Wound care materials such as interactive case studies, glossaries, and quizzes available through online portal.
5. Clinical Practice Guidelines
The National Guideline Clearinghouse houses evidence-based clinical practice guidelines categorized by treatment, intervention, and condition.
6. American Medical Directors Association
Choose from a variety of clinical practice guidelines, forms, podcasts, protocols, and complete toolkits pertaining to pressure ulcer prevention and treatment.
7. National Pressure Ulcer Advisory Panel
The NPUAP recently released a new set of clinical guidelines for the prevention and treatment of pressure ulcers. This website also provides information on educational resources such as the PUSH tool, staging illustrations, and clinical guidelines.
8. The American Nurses Association
Comprehensive training program with individual modules covering staging, injuries, wound types, and community vs. hospital-acquired ulcers.
Important Web Resources for Nursing Homes
