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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/pruprev/timeline.html
December 01, 2014 - Research
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AHRQ Publishing and Communications Guidelines … Step 1: Verify Nursing Home Readiness
The facilitator meets with nursing home leadership to confirm … unit, a dietitian, and certified nursing assistants (CNAs). … Nursing leadership may assume this role or delegate the responsibility. … The director of nursing (DON) determines his or her level of involvement.
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/prevhosp/preventablehospitalandedvisits-implmatl.pdf
September 08, 2017 - nursing home safely? … What guidelines or evidence-based practice is your policy and procedure based on? … Advancing Excellence
Project Boost
RED (Re-Engineered Discharge)
AMDA’s Clinical Practice Guidelines … Director of Nursing/Assistant Director of Nursing
Nursing Supervisor
Administrator
Medical … Nursing leadership meeting
2.
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/ltc-quality-measures.html
December 01, 2022 - Research
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AHRQ Publishing and Communications Guidelines … Long-term skilled nursing care for a loved one goes beyond basic needs such as food, water, and shelter … Ivory is Senior Director of Nursing Research at Vanderbilt University Medical Center and Executive Nursing … Administration and Associate Professor at the Office of Evidence-Based Practice and Nursing Research … at Vanderbilt University School of Nursing.
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/index.html
November 01, 2021 - Research
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AHRQ Publishing and Communications Guidelines … Long-term care resources
Toolkit To Improve Antibiotic Use in Long-Term Care
AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing … Falls and Injury
Long-Term Care Facilities
Multiple Chronic Conditions
Omissions of Care in Nursing … Homes
Pressure Ulcers
Quality of Life
TeamSTEPPS
Nursing Home Antimicrobial Stewardship Guide
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-01/crystal-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - of many widespread practices in healthcare that differ from those recommended in
evidence-based guidelines … Interviews were completed with 39 nursing home staff and prescribing physicians at 14 nursing homes. … nursing homes. … Stronger requirements and
incentives to meet CMS minimum safe staffing guidelines would contribute … Improving patient safety in
nursing home dementia care: qualitative study of nursing home staff and
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/nhguide/toolkits/educate-and-engage/index.html
October 01, 2016 - Research
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AHRQ Publishing and Communications Guidelines … Implementing the toolkit takes four steps:
Identify champions for the nursing staff. … The champions should also regularly promote the use of the tools and check in with nursing staff to see … Convene a meeting of the nursing staff and any onsite prescribing clinicians to discuss the tools. … Toolkit Effectiveness
This toolkit is based on similar toolkits used in nursing homes and hospitals
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/measures/setting/long-term-care/home-health/measurement.html
December 01, 2022 - Research
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AHRQ Publishing and Communications Guidelines … Plan Quality
Measuring Physician Quality
Measuring Long-term Care Quality
Measuring Nursing … Also in "Measures of Quality in Nursing Homes, Home Health Agencies, and Hospice"
Home Health Care … Examples of Home Health Quality Measures for Consumers
Major Home Health Agency Measurement Sets
Nursing
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/resources/comparative-reports.html
December 01, 2016 - Research
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AHRQ Publishing and Communications Guidelines … consumers on the quality and costs of care from health plans, hospitals, physicians, dialysis facilities, nursing … Types of Comparative Report
Physicians
Surgical care
Hospitals
Health plans
Nursing homes
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/hai/abate/faqs/faq-iodophor.docx
March 01, 2022 - iodophor has been used in thousands of patients prior to surgery, in intensive care units (ICUs), and in nursing … screening test (if performed), or clinical culture, per your hospital’s usual MRSA screening/testing guidelines … Iodophor will be provided at your hospital either as a standing nursing protocol for an over-the-counter … Similar to other standing nursing protocols or order sets, the standard of care is to provide this type … Review the nursing protocols for details on escalation pathways for addressing patient refusals.
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-huang.html
December 01, 2023 - Research
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AHRQ Publishing and Communications Guidelines … Hospital admission also is a concern for three million nursing home residents who are affected by HAIs … These infections are particularly problematic in nursing homes because residents are older and more prone … The nursing homes that used universal decolonization prevented two infection-related transfers to the … hospital each month and cut the overall amount of multi-drug resistant organisms in the nursing home
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/sops/about/faq/index.html
June 01, 2022 - Research
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AHRQ Publishing and Communications Guidelines … safety culture survey that is based on a SOPS survey or uses items from a SOPS survey, refer to the guidelines … To maintain comparability and consistency across SOPS surveys, AHRQ offers the following guidelines regarding … A nursing home is a facility or a special contained area of a facility that has only licensed nursing … Can I compare my SOPS Nursing Home Survey results against other nursing homes?
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/cahps/surveys-guidance/ed-cahps/index.html
December 01, 2023 - Research
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AHRQ Publishing and Communications Guidelines … Health Care
Hospice
Hospital
In-Center Hemodialysis
Mental Health Care
Nursing … CAHPS Emergency Department Survey and Administrative Guidance
To access this survey and recommended guidelines … The instrument was designed and tested in accordance with CAHPS principles and guidelines established
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/topics/index.html?page=1
January 01, 2012 - Research
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AHRQ Publishing and Communications Guidelines … and 1,000,000 people in the United States fall in the hospital, and about 1.3 million residents in nursing … AHRQ’s tools, training, and research on preventing falls in hospitals and nursing homes. … maintains surveys, toolkits, and databases on patient safety culture for hospitals, medical offices, nursing
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/es/topics/index.html?page=1
January 01, 2012 - Research
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AHRQ Publishing and Communications Guidelines … and 1,000,000 people in the United States fall in the hospital, and about 1.3 million residents in nursing … AHRQ’s tools, training, and research on preventing falls in hospitals and nursing homes. … maintains surveys, toolkits, and databases on patient safety culture for hospitals, medical offices, nursing
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/multicenter-0503-coe-cquips.html
October 01, 2014 - Research
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AHRQ Publishing and Communications Guidelines … use of peri- and post-operative beta-blockers, half to anesthesia providers and half to surgeons and nursing … "Next we piloted the program in two post-op nursing units. … So, we had to convince the nursing leadership to allow 'regular' staff nurses to administer IV beta-blockers … After analyzing the pilot's results, the use of IV beta-blockers was extended to all nursing units.
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/ktcquips91.html
October 01, 2014 - Research
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AHRQ Publishing and Communications Guidelines … The facility now requests medication information from the hospital before a resident returns to the nursing … an accurate medication list in the event that they transition from the retirement community to the nursing … helped gain leadership support for installing new medication reconciliation report software on all nursing … list after surgery, and the surgeon is able to reconcile medications before the patient returns to the nursing
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/pruhealing/puh-assessment.pdf
December 15, 2016 - AHRQ’s Safety Program for Nursing Homes: On-Time
Pressure Ulcer Healing
On-Time Pressure Ulcer Assessment … homes, large nursing home chains, and
wound centers. … Assessment Instruction (BWAT)
Bates-Jensen Wound Assessment Elements
Instructions
General Guidelines … Admission (POA)
In-House Acquired (IHA)
Site of Ulcer:
Position of Resident When Assessed:
Guidelines … Healing
On-Time Pressure Ulcer Assessment
Bates-Jensen Wound Assessment Elements
Instructions
General Guidelines
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/funding/process/study-section/heorrst.html
January 01, 2024 - Research
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AHRQ Publishing and Communications Guidelines … Professor
School of Nursing
Department of Rural Health Nursing
University of Colorado, Denver
Aurora … Associate Professor
Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing
Emory University
Atlanta, GA 30322
Djulbegovic … Professor
Decker School of Nursing
Binghamton University
State University of New York
Binghamton,
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/funding/process/study-section/hsqrrst.html
April 01, 2024 - Research
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AHRQ Publishing and Communications Guidelines … Minneapolis, MN 55455
Jarrín Montaner, Olga F., Ph.D., R.N., FAAN
Associate Professor
School of Nursing … Lexington, KY 40536
Nahm, Eun-Shim, Ph.D., M.S. *
Professor and Program Director
Departments of Nursing … Informatics and Organizational Systems and Adult Health
University of Maryland School of Nursing
Baltimore … Professor
Department of Systems, Populations, and Leadership
University of Michigan School of Nursing
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preventiveservices.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/archive.html
July 01, 2018 - Research
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AHRQ Publishing and Communications Guidelines … and Recommendations
Clinical Practice Guidelines Archive … More topics in this section
Prevention
Chronic Care
Clinical Guidelines … Please visit AHRQ's Guidelines and Measures (GAM) microsite to find information about its legacy guidelines … https://www.ahrq.gov/prevention/guidelines/archive.html
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