1. Change and Progress
2. Depression
3. Employees - finding, keeping and other resources
4. Medication Guides
5. National Organizations
6. Pain Management
7. Physical Restraints
8. Resources

• NHQI STAR 
• Pioneering Change to Promote Excellent Alternatives in Kansas Nursing Homes

 Depression

• Natl. Institute of Mental Health resources on depression
• Medicare's Nursing Home Compare

• Finding and keeping direct care staff
• Heartwork, video about the lives of direct care workers
• Individual Development Accounts
• Recruiting Quality Health Care paraprofessionals
• US Dept of Labor videos describing the work of nursing aides
• Workforce Tools
• World of the Certified Nursing Assistant - a video

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Medication Guides

• Inappropriate Medications for the Elderly

• Increasing an Opiod Dose

 National Organizations

• Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality

• AGS Foundation for Health in Aging

• American Assn. of Homes and Services for the Aging

• American Assn. of Nurse Assessment Coordinators

• American College of Health Care Administrators

• American Geriatrics Society

• American Health Care Association

• American Medical Directors Association

• American Nurses Association

• American Occupational Therapy Assn.

• American Physical Therapy Assn.

• American Society on Aging

• American Society of Anesthesiologists

• Gerontological Society of America

• Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Organizations

• National Assn. of Area Agencies on Aging

• National Council on the Aging

• National Gerontological Nursing Assn.

• National Guideline Clearinghouse

• National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization

• National Institute on Aging

• National Institute of Health (NIH) Consensus Development Program

• US Administration on Aging

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 Pain Management

• AGS, Management of persistent pain in older persons

• American Association of Nurse Assessment Coordinators

• American Pain Society (APS)

• Assessment and management of acute pain

• Behavior Observation Pain Scale

• Comprehensive Pain Assessment Form for the Cognitively Impaired

• Comprehensive Pain Assessment Form for the Cognitively Intact

• Development of the Wong-Baker FACES Pain Rating Scale

• Educational Development Center

• Endo Pharmaceuticals

• Exercise prescription for older adults with osteoarthritis pain

• Fax form for pain assessment/communication between RN’s, pharmacists, physicians

• Graphic Vital Signs Record 

• Innovations in End-of-Life Care

• Nurse-Physician Pain Communication

• Nurse Worksheet for Phone Call Interventions

• Pain Audit for Customers with Cognitive Impairment/Dementia

• Painlab

• Pain Management Resource Page

• Pain Screening Form

• Partners Against Pain

• WHO Analgesic Leader

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 Physical Restraints

• Untie the Elderly 

 Resources

• ADVANCE for Nurses

• Aging With Dignity

• Brown University Center for Gerontology and Health care research

• Cochrane Collaboration

• Florida Association of Homes for the Aging

• Florida Health Care Association

• Florida Medical Directors Association
• Florida Nursing Home Watch List
• Florida Nurses Association

• GeriU Online Geriatrics Institute

• Healthcare Compliance Company

• hcPros’ Healthcare Marketplace 

• Medicare's Nursing Home Compare Site

• Medicare Quality Improvement Community

• National Association Directors of Nursing Administration / Long Term Care (NADONA/LTC)

• Quality Care

• Revised Long-Term Care Resident Assessment Instrument User’s Manual

• Toolkit for End of Life Care
  

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