Clinical Tools and Forms for Long-Term Care

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