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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/search.html?page=5
January 01, 2022 - Populations
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Residents … the implementation of evidence-based prevention and safety practices within nursing homes to protect residents … How Jurisdictions Can Ensure COVID-19 Vaccine Access for Staff and Residents in Long-term Care Settings … Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains how jurisdictions can ensure vaccine access for staff and residents
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201530.html
November 01, 2015 - Populations
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Rural/Inner-City Residents … metrics and data to show that we are a TeamSTEPPS facility, but the survey that the graduate nurse residents … To finance the project, nurse graduate residents wrote a successful funding proposal. … "To do so, [the nurse graduate residents] had to understand TeamSTEPPS fully before writing the script
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/topics/antimicrobial-stewardship.html
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Rural/Inner-City Residents … This toolkit uses collaborative and evidence-based approaches to improve antibiotic use by getting residents … Toolkit To Educate and Engage Residents and Family Members : This toolkit helps residents and their family
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/hai/cauti-tools/phys-championsgd/section9.html
October 01, 2015 - Populations
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Rural/Inner-City Residents … Encourage incorporating daily device evaluation into team rounds (i.e., when both residents and faculty
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/nhguide/toolkits/implement-monitor-sustain-program/toolkit2-monitor-sustain-program.html
October 01, 2016 - Populations
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Rural/Inner-City Residents … Antibiotics
Help Prescribing Clinicians Choose the Right Antibiotic
Educate and Engage Residents … Communicating the results to staff, residents, and prescribing clinicians is helpful to show progress … For example, each team will need to consider how to report on residents who receive antibiotics more … For example, has there been a decrease in treatment of residents who do not meet the diagnostic criteria
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/talkingquality/resources/comparative-reports/nursing-homes.html
October 01, 2022 - Populations
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Rural/Inner-City Residents … ownership, inspection deficiency details, staffing details such as average hours worked per day per residents … for RNs, LPNs, LVNs and CNAs, and quality measures for residents, including percent of residents with
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module5/healthcare-team.docx
March 01, 2017 - for the overall direction, coordination, and evaluation of nursing care and services provided to the residents … Social workers guide facility staff in matters of residency advocacy and protection and promotion of residents … They work with residents in the nursing home by identifying their psychosocial, mental, and emotional
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK1_T1-SBAR_UTI_Word_simplified_one_page.doc
August 26, 2016 - _______________________
· No
· Yes
The resident is on Warfarin (Coumadin®)
ASSESSMENT
* For residents
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/prevent/clinical-faqs.html
March 01, 2017 - Populations
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Rural/Inner-City Residents … Alternatives to Indwelling Urinary Catheterization
For residents who are catheterized long term, would … Residents and family members will need education and emotional support when transitioning to a suprapubic … Developing a bladder management program for rehab residents, for example, helps prevent UTIs, bladder … Never share a urine collection container between residents.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK2_P1O-Comprehensive_Antibiogram_Toolkit_Phase1_Assessment_and_Planning_final.doc
May 13, 2014 - This information will help tailor the program to the prescribers caring for residents in a specific nursing … · Communicate with area hospitals that frequently care for the nursing home’s residents when they are … antibiogram is that it can be made available to outside facilities and prescribing clinicians who care for residents … transferred to hospitals.
· Nursing home residents are frequently transferred to emergency departments … and key prescribing clinicians;
2) establishing a process to send the nursing home’s antibiogram with residents
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/program-dev-facilitator-guide.docx
June 01, 2021 - These are just some of the side effects that residents can experience from antibiotic exposure, so it … Antibiotic stewardship can help prevent some of these consequences and protect the residents in your … duration, and route of administration.
· To use antibiotics only when necessary, thereby protecting residents … · Residents and family members. … It is always helpful for residents and family members to know that your facility is always working to
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/education-bundles/strategies-slides.html
March 01, 2017 - Populations
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Rural/Inner-City Residents … Using information that is plainly understood should be a priority when speaking with residents and their … Times of observations and interventions should always be noted in the resident's record, and residents … Scenario #2
Mary, a nursing assistant, asks her colleague, Jessica, to help her reposition two residents … in bed
The two residents, Mrs.
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK1_T1-Background_final.docx
October 01, 2016 - consult these tools before initiating empiric antibiotic therapy, which may improve outcomes among residents … prevalence resistance to multiple antibiotics.
· Antibiograms provide guidance for empiric antibiotic use in residents
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK1_T6-Sample_Distribution_Plan_for_an_Antibiogram_final.docx
October 01, 2016 - include information about the antibiogram in instructions related to communication with physicians about residents … training at the nursing home for:
Antimicrobial stewardship policies and procedures
Procedures for residents
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK2_T4-Common_Suspected_Infections_Tools_to_Improve_Communication_and_Decision_Making.ppt
May 01, 2014 - Example: One-third of residents receiving antibiotics for UTI are being treated for asymptomatic bacteriuria … One-third of residents receiving antibiotics for a “UTI” are asymptomatic. … End-of-Life
Antibiotics may not be indicated at the end of life; their use should be discussed with residents … Ideally, all long-term care facility residents should have a POLST accepted form on the chart and have … Antibiotics” Handout
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“Be Smart about Antibiotics” Handout
Distributed to current and new residents
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module6/guide.html
March 01, 2017 - Populations
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Rural/Inner-City Residents … Materials: Slide 3
Audience: All staff, including administrators and frontline staff; residents and … Materials: Slides 4-6
Audience: All staff, including administrators and frontline staff; residents and … Materials: Slides 7–11
Audience: All staff, including administrators and frontline staff; residents … Materials: Slides 21-24
Audience: All staff, including administrators and frontline staff; residents
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/cauti-surveillance/pocket-card.html
May 01, 2017 - Populations
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Rural/Inner-City Residents … Frontline staff can use the pocket card while caring for residents to assess for signs and symptoms of … Also, clinicians can use it when evaluating residents for signs and symptoms of CAUTI. … side 1
Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection
Criteria for defining CAUTI in long-term care residents … more (≥10 5 CFU/ml)
Slide 3: Pocket card side 2
*Constitutional Criteria for Long-Term Care Residents
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/injuries/fallspx/manapb7.html
December 01, 2017 - Populations
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Rural/Inner-City Residents … Information and Training for Staff, Primary Care Providers, and Residents and their Families
Chapter … For most residents, the bed should be left in the lowest position. True or False (Circle one)
3. … New admissions have the same risk of falling as residents who have been in the facility more than 60
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/manage-resident-RTI-slides.pptx
June 01, 2021 - using results of diagnostic tests
Discuss reasonable durations of antibiotic therapy for pneumonia for residents … of long-term care settings
2
Management RTI
2
Risk Stratification
Residents in generally good health … Residents who meet any of the following criteria are at risk of pneumonia with more resistant infections … clinicians and other frontline staff
Apply the Four Moments of Antibiotic Decision Making Form to 5–10 residents … each month
Supporting Materials
Talking With Residents and Family Members About Lower Respiratory
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ce.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/quality-patient-safety/quality-resources/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/implementation/long-term-modules/module3/video-transcript-spanish.docx
April 21, 2014 - Your knowledge of residents´ mobility is valuable here.
Estoy totalmente de acuerdo. … This applies to everyone: nursing, dietary, CNAs, or anyone who is interacting with our residents. … And Corey, we´ll need you to help us educate residents and families, especially residents on contact … We can all learn from our errors, and make this a safer home for our residents. … We know the residents living here are susceptible to infection and can even die from one.