Palliative Care for COVID-19
This pocket card for providers from the Center to Advance Palliative Care provides quick facts about palliative care for COVID-19. Relief of dyspnea, opioid quick tips, and communication skills are included.
Source: Center to Advance Palliative Care, 2020.
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COVID-19 Educational Toolkit
The AGS/ADGAP COVID-19 Educational Toolkit is a compendium of resources created by AGS and ADGAP members and available to all members. The toolkit includes a variety of teaching tools and resources intended to help providers care for older adults during the COVID-19 pandemic. All educational tools are organized by their intended setting. It is free to create an account and download the material.
Source: American Geriatrics Society, 2020.
Opioid Workforce Expansion Program (OWEP) Paraprofessionals
Welcome to the Opioid Workforce Expansion Program (OWEP) Paraprofessionals cohort engagement group. This platform was created to enable OWEP grantees to connect with each other to discuss best practices, brainstorm solutions to program challenges, facilitate collaborative partnerships, and to encourage cohort cohesion.
Hip Fractures in Older Adults: Update on Perioperative Management
This handout reviews pre-and post-operative management, and post-discharge care of patients undergoing surgery for hip fractures. Tables outlining hip fracture complications and priorities in geriatric management of hip fractures are provided.
Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care 4th Edition
This report outlines the clinical practice guidelines for quality palliative care of older adults. It discusses ten domains while identifying specific guidelines within these domains regarding palliative care.The domains include: structure and process of care, physical aspects of care, psychological and psychiatric aspects of care, social aspects of care, spiritual, religious, and existential aspects of care, cultural aspects of care, care of the patient nearing the end of life, and ethical and legal aspects of care.
Quality Clinical Care in Nursing Facilities
This article discusses recommendations for overcoming barriers to achieving consistent, high-quality clinical outcomes in long-term and post-acute care facilities. It also provides recommendations regarding inadequate workforce, suboptimal culture and interprofessional teamwork, insufficiently evidence-based processes of care, and poor adoption and fidelity of technology and integrated clinical decision support.
Source: The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, 2018.
Patient Safety Essentials Toolkit
This toolkit provided by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement is designed to help organizations develop and deliver safe, reliable care every time for patients. It includes documents to help improve teamwork and communication, tools to help understand the underlying issues that can cause errors, and valuable guidance about how to create and maintain reliable systems. Within the nine tools included in the toolkit, each includes a short description, instructions, an example, and a blank template. (Registration to the IHI website is required to access this resource).
Getting Started with Interprofessional Practice and Education in Community-Based Settings
In this Journal of Nursing Education editorial, Barbara Brandt and Amy Barton describe the impact of the National Center's "Accelerating Interprofessional Community-Based Education and Practice" Initiative and the implementation across 16 schools of nursing in the Unites States, each partnering with a community-based organization to further interprofessional initiatives designed around the needs of the patient, family, and community.
CLE Innovation Challenge Summary- Nexus Summit 2019
A partnership between the National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education, the National Collaborative on Improving the Clinical Learning Environment (NCICLE), and SmithGroup, the 2019 Clincial Learning Environment Innovation Challenge was a dynamic, team-based, design thinking experience at the Nexus Summit 2019.