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The CHAMP Geriatric Pain Management course is an 8-month, online e-learning course which covers both a major clinical topic (Pain Management) and a major management topic (Managing for Quality).
I. Pain Management Content:
Pain management for older patients is a key quality of life issue, but often under identified and treated in home healthcare.
The Geriatric Pain Management curriculum addresses key issues in pain management, such as:
- Screening all older patients for pain
- Using pain intensity scales
- Assessing pain for patients who cannot communicate their pain (such as those with dementia)
- Pharmacologic pain relief
- Non-pharmacologic pain relief
- Monitoring for complications of pain and pain management
- Developing a pain management care plan
- Communicating with physicians about pain
II. Managing for Quality Content:
The CHAMP Geriatric Pain Management curriculum will also address managing and teaching for improvement. Many homecare agencies focused on quality are beginning to ask frontline managers to increase their clinical oversight, requiring managers to play a key role in promoting quality improvement and strengthening best practices among staff. This requires that they support nurses in the implementation, measurement and integration of proven interventions into daily patient care.
In many cases, home healthcare managers are generally recruited from the ranks of field nurses and rarely have had the opportunity to receive management or QI training. CHAMP's Geriatric Pain Management will strengthen frontline managers' knowledge and skills for improving geriatric care in the following two key areas:
- Team building, communication, and collaboration
- Practice-based learning, measurement and change
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