Provider Resources for Pain Management
5-point Pain Assessment Card for Cognitively Impaired Residents
5-point Pain Assessment Card for Cognitively Intact Residents
10-point Pain Assessment Card for Cognitively Intact Residents
10-Point Pain Scale for Cognitively Impaired, Non-verbal Adults
Pain in Dementia: A Family and Caregivers Guide to Assessment and Treatment
This brochure for family members and other caregivers provides advice from the experts on assessing pain in older adults with dementia.
Chart Audit Tool for Pain Management (Chronic Care Residents)
Facility Assessment Checklists
This is a series of self-assessment checklists for nursing home staff to use to assess processes related to pain management in the facility, in order to identify areas that need improvement. You will find the checklists most useful if you need to look at your current practice more critically.
Improve Your Pain Management Using a Quality Improvement Approach (presentation)
Key Care Plan Approaches
Managing Your Pain template brochure (Word format)
A guide for residents and families that can be customized by your facility
Non-Communicative Patient's Pain Assessment Instrument
Activity chart check list in English and Spanish developed with support from the U.S. Veterans Affairs Health Services Research & Development Service and the National Institute of Mental Health.
Nursing Home Communication with Physician - Pain Management Form
Pain Assessment Form for Cognitively Impaired Residents
Pain Assessment Form for Cognitively Intact Residents
Pain Assessment IN Advanced Dementia (PAINAD)
Pain Assessment Terminology and Types
Pain Jeopardy
Pain Management: Essential Systems for Quality Care
Pain Management for Long-term Care: An Overview
Pain Management Treatment Algorithms
Nursing leaders in the Wisconsin Long Term Care Coalition to Improve Pain Management believed there was a need for an educational tool that could guide nurses through the analgesic management of pain. Based upon a complete pain assessment, algorithms were designed to guide nurses through the pharmacological and non-pharmacological management of pain, categorized as Mild (1-3), Moderate (4-6), or Severe (7-10). Using the algorithms, the nurse can suggest appropriate interventions to manage pain.
Pain Scale for the Cognitively Impaired, Non-verbal Adults
Pain Screening Form
Systems Approach to Pain in LTC and HH Settings
A presentation by Nancy Wertz, RN, CHPN, Co-Chair, the New Mexico Pain Initiative, and Walter B. Forman, MD, FACP, CMD, FAAHPM, given on July 18, 2006
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