Primaris Tools - Setting : Nursing Home Condition: Pain

These two-sided pocket cards assist with pain management and assessment, particularly with cognitively impaired adults. Cards are laminated and intended for use with the Faces Pain Assessment Guide.

Provides definitions of common terms.

Tool to evaluate the decision-making process and adequacy of the facility’s process in the management of pain.

Use these checklists as the starting point for a quality improvement project. The checklists are most useful if you need to look at your current practice more critically.

The checklists include each of the following areas:

• Screening for Pain
• Assessing Pain
• Developing Pain Care Plans
• Monitoring Pain
• Reassessing Pain
• Assessing Pain Management Policies
• Assessing Staff Education

This is a set of 3 laminated pain treatment algorithm cards for care planning. Includes algorithms for mild, moderate and severe pain treatment; a decision tree for pain care, reference card and non-pharmacological approaches to pain management. Measures 5 1/2" x 8 1/2".

This document outlines processes that can be used when caring for a resident with pain.

Use this document to help learn about the attitudes of caregivers toward treatment of pain.

Use this flowchart to outline key elements and key steps when developing a plan of care for a resident with pain.

Use this document to outline key steps and elements to monitoring pain.