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www.ahrq.gov/hai/quality/tools/cauti-ltc/modules/resources/tools/cauti-surveillance/pocket-card.html
May 01, 2017 - 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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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/poster-bacterial-cultures.pdf
June 01, 2021 - No. 17(21)-0029
June 2021
• Only collect bacterial cultures
from residents … • Bacteria growing in urine or
sputum in residents without
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/qapi-leadership-rounding.html
February 01, 2021 - (e.g., administrator, department heads, and nurse managers) are out in the building with staff and residents … Rounding with staff and residents is an effective method for leaders to hear firsthand what is going
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/vaccine-access-ltcsettings.html
November 01, 2021 - 19 Vaccine Access in Long-term Care Settings
The Federal Government is committed to ensuring that residents … The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends that people aged 65 years and older, residents
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www.ahrq.gov/es/nursing-home/resources/search.html?page=6
January 01, 2022 - the implementation of evidence-based prevention and safety practices within nursing homes to protect residents … and captures an all-hazards approach to meeting the health, safety, and security needs of staff and residents … and captures an all-hazards approach to meeting the health, safety, and security needs of staff and residents … Medicaid Services (CMS) establishes Long-Term Care (LTC) facility testing requirements for staff and residents … Specifically, facilities are required to test residents and staff, including individuals providing services
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www.ahrq.gov/news/newsroom/case-studies/201530.html
November 01, 2015 - 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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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/antibiotic-use/long-term-care/assess-resident-RTI-slides.pptx
June 01, 2021 - suspected respiratory tract infection
Identify indications for antibiotics and supportive care measures for residents … Test the resident’s roommate, anyone else with close exposure to the resident, and any of the residents … During the winter months, all residents with fever and cough should be tested for influenza. … Clear communication regarding decision making with residents and family is key, and supportive measures … Utility of pulse oximetry in diagnosing pneumonia in nursing home residents.
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/pruhealing/ereports.html
December 01, 2017 - For residents with more than one pressure ulcer, each pressure ulcer will be displayed separately. … Clinicians can use this report to track all residents with pressure ulcers in the facility. … with at least one pressure ulcer
Number of all current residents
Residents With New Pressure … as well as residents who did not have a pressure ulcer and developed one)
Number of all current residents … of current residents with more than one IHA pressure ulcer
Number of Residents With More Than
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/pruhealing/puh-electronic-reports.pdf
February 10, 2014 - For residents with more than one pressure ulcer, each pressure
ulcer will be displayed separately. … Clinicians can use this report to track all residents with pressure ulcers in the facility. … This report can be filtered to display a single nursing unit or to display all residents with pressure … with at least one
pressure ulcer
Number of all current
residents
Residents With New Pressure … current residents with more than one IHA pressure
ulcer
Number of Residents With More
Than One Pressure
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/professionals/systems/long-term-care/resources/ontime/fallsprev/fallpxreports.pptx
October 01, 2017 - at risk
Helps clinicians see changes in resident status earlier, and identify residents at risk before … they fall
October 2017
On-Time Falls Prevention
7
Falls High-Risk Report
How many residents triggered … How many residents at highest risk are cognitively impaired? Have no cognitive impairment? … How many residents at highest risk had a change in status during the report week? … Who Fell Total Residents With >1 Fall Total Falls
Unit A
# falls
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/4_TK3_T4-Letter_to_Prescribing_Clinicians.pdf
October 01, 2016 - and lower respiratory tract infections are the most
commonly treated infections among nursing home residents … Residents with an intermittent catheter or a condom catheter should be evaluated as if
they are not … For residents
with acute dysuria, it may be appropriate to initiate empirical antibiotic therapy; but … For residents that regularly run a lower temperature, use a temperature of 2°F (1°C)
above the baseline … These criteria do not apply to residents with burns.
7.
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/2024-09/kellogg-report.pdf
January 01, 2024 - Observational Data Collection: Emergency medicine attending physicians and residents at two inner city … A total of 24 physicians (12 attending physicians and 12 residents) completed the 2-hour observations … Residents had higher NASA-TLX scores on average in both the pre and post surveys (Figure
7). … Specific Aim 2:
Interviews
Sixteen emergency physicians (n=8 attending physicians and n=8 residents) … Half the physicians (n=3 attendings,
n=5 residents) did not have a refocusing strategy.
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/resources/interim-final-rule.html
June 01, 2022 - Medicaid Services (CMS) establishes Long-Term Care (LTC) facility testing requirements for staff and residents … Specifically, facilities are required to test residents and staff, including individuals providing services
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www.ahrq.gov/funding/grantee-profiles/grtprofile-huang.html
December 01, 2023 - 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 5-year PROTECT Trial (Protecting Nursing Home Residents from Infections and Readmissions)—a cluster … Universal decolonization includes using over-the-counter antiseptic solutions to clean the skin and nose of residents
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/injuries/fallspx/man3.html
December 01, 2017 - Information and Training for Staff, Primary Care Providers, and Residents and their Families
Chapter … The key indicators for the FMP are outcome measures that include falls, residents who fall, residents … Key indicators for the FMP
Number of falls each month
Number of residents who fall each month … Number of residents with two or more falls each month
Number of falls with serious injury each month … Perceptions of residents and family members are important indicators of customer satisfaction and should
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/research/findings/nhqrdr/chartbooks/healthyliving/qdr2015-chartbook-healthyliving.pdf
January 01, 2020 - Receipt of Pneumococcal Immunization by Nursing Home Residents
Long-stay nursing home residents who … ♦ Among female residents compared with male residents. … residents … home residents … Black and Hispanic residents compared with White residents
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www.ahrq.gov/nursing-home/index.html
Reporting Tools
Track and trend vaccine administration data, including boosters, for residents … Best Practice Summaries
Resources to enhance evidence-based safety practices to protect residents and
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK1_T5-Sample_Policy_Letter_final.pdf
October 01, 2016 - To improve appropriate antibiotic use for the residents at [NAME OF NURSING HOME],
we will begin providing … prescribing clinicians will take the antibiogram into account when they
are choosing therapy for their residents … PROVIDED (IN PRINT BY
MAIL OR FAX, BY EMAIL) AND WHETHER IT WILL BE SENT WITH
COMMUNICATIONS ABOUT RESIDENTS
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www.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/wysiwyg/nhguide/5_TK1_T5-Sample_Policy_Letter_final.docx
October 01, 2016 - To improve appropriate antibiotic use for the residents at [NAME OF NURSING HOME], we will begin providing … prescribing clinicians will take the antibiogram into account when they are choosing therapy for their residents … PROVIDED (IN PRINT BY MAIL OR FAX, BY EMAIL) AND WHETHER IT WILL BE SENT WITH COMMUNICATIONS ABOUT RESIDENTS
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www.ahrq.gov/patient-safety/settings/long-term-care/resource/ontime/pruprev/factraining.html
December 01, 2014 - How do nursing home staff members pick up on subtle changes in residents' risk status? … Prioritize residents for possible changes to their treatment plan. … How do you pick up on subtle changes in residents' risk status? … agrees with their knowledge and assessment of these residents. … the reports who should not be there, residents are missing from reports, residents are less functional