Tools
Use the search feature below to locate evidence-based tools you can use to advance home care clinical practice, build strong teams and improve quality.
Check back frequently! We will continuously introduce new Tools to this section.
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Advance Directives
This Caring Connections web site provides free, downloadable Advance Directives and related instructions for each of the 50 states.
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ARMOR (Assess, Review, Minimize, Optimize, Reassess) Polypharmacy tool
A tool to help evaluate and reduce polypharmacy for older patients. It can also be used as a supplemental tool in assessing falls, behaviors, and unexplained functional decline. Reviews
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Artificial Nutrition (Food) and Hydration (Fluids) at the End of Life
A two page handout to help patients and family caregivers make choices about food and fluids at the end of life. Reviews
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Ask-Me-3
A tool to foster effective communication with patients. The Ask-Me-3 encourages patients to ask, and providers to answer, three basic questions during every medical encounter.
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Assessing Family Caregivers: A Guide for Health Care Providers
This brief guide is an introduction to the caregiver assessment process for health care professionals. From the United Hospital Fund, Next Step in Care Program.
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Assessing Nutrition in Older Adults (Try This, Issue 9)
"Try This" issue that describes the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA), a simple and quick method of identifying older adults who are at risk of malnutrition. (Also see the "Assessing Nutrition in Older Adults" Try This video)
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Assessing Pain in Older Adults with Dementia (Try This, Issue D2)
A tool for assessing pain with cognitively impaired older persons and information on its use. Published by the Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing. Reviews
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Assessment and Documentation Issues in Wound Care
An article from the VNAA's Wound and Skin Care Center that discusses crucial elements of effective wound care including nutrition, wound etiology, wound appearance, and pain.
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Asthma Zone Tool
This tool assists patients/caregivers in managing asthma using red, yellow and green zones. It also helps patients determine when to call the physician or home care nurse and/or go to the emergency department.
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Asthma Zone Tool - Spanish version
This is a Spanish translation of the tool to assist patients/caregivers in managing asthma using red, yellow and green zones. It also helps patients determine when to call the physician or home care nurse and/or go to the emergency department.
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