Clinical Tools and Forms for Long-Term Care

Clinical Tools and Forms for Long-Term Care
Barbara Acello, MS, RN

Is your library of long-term care tools and forms a bit cluttered or a challenge to navigate? Minimize space and save time searching for the clinical, legal, and daily maintenance-related forms you need with Clinical Tools and Forms for Long-Term Care.

This valuable book combines an extensive collection of long-term care tools and forms from author Barbara Acello, MS, RN, into an all-in-one comprehensive resource. Including clinical forms such as pain and activities of daily living assessments, as well as regulatory forms such as HIPAA rules and regulations, infection control, and facility-specific policies, the book's content is organized by topic so long-term care providers can instantly reference, download, and implement the forms they need.

Table of contents
Clinical

• Admission, Transfer, Discharge
• Assessment, Nursing
• Audits & Checklists
• Code/Medical Emergency
• Diabetes Monitoring & Medication
• Enteral, Parenteral Nutrition
• Falls
• Infection Control
• Medicare
• Medication
• Miscellaneous
• Nursing Assistant
• Nursing (Licensed) Documentation
• Nutrition (Oral) and Hydration
• Pain
• Physician Services
• Restraints
• Skin/Pressure Ulcer/Skin Tears
• Social Services/Behavior/Mental Health
• Vital Signs, Height/Weight
• Wandering/Eloping

Documentation

• Audits & Checklists
• Certificates
• Code/Medical Emergency
• Employee Issues/Human Resources
• Infection Control
• In-Service/Education
• Miscellaneous
• Nursing Assistant
• Nursing (Licensed) Documentation
• Report
• Resident Consents and Releases
• Social Services/Behavior/Mental Health
• Wandering/Eloping

Legal

• Advance Directive, DNR (No Code), POLST, Vial of Life
• Contracts and Agreements
• Employee Issues/Human Resources
• Medicare
• Nursing (Licensed) Documentation
• Resident Consents and Releases

Restorative

• ADL
• Bowel and Bladder
• Restorative Nursing
• Task Analysis

Top 10 Forms

• Restorative Nursing Care of Plan Form
• Admission Bladder Assessment Form
• Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment
• Vaccine Consent
• Elopement Patterning Tool
• Behavioral Scale for Cognitively Impaired Adults
• Brink/Yesavage Geriatric Depression Scale
• Skin Tear Risk Assessment
• Fall Prevention Assessment
• Medicare Redetermination Request Form

Who should read this book?

• Administrators
• Directors of nursing (DON)
• Nurses
• Assistant DONs
• Staff educators
• Clinical managers
• Directors
• Nurse managers
• QA committee members
• Quality assurance staff