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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(New!) Clinical Coaching using CHAMP Tools - Video
A narrated video developed by a clinical education expert for team managers that shows how to use CHAMP tools to provide guidance to staff.
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(New!) Clinical Coaching: An Approach to Motivating Clinical Practice Change in Home Care
An overview of a strategy to help front line managers move evidence more quickly into practice among home care clinicians.
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(New!) Developing Effective Leadership Tools: Creating an Effective Agenda & Managing Your Meeting for Success
This presentation features key tips for running effective meetings, which can also be useful when preparing for clinical coaching sessions. Prepared by Cheryl Phillips, Chief Medical Officer of On Lok Lifeways, for the Practice Change Fellows Program. [www.practicechangefellows.org]
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(New!) Orthostatic Hypotension and Dizziness Protocol
This brief protocol addresses orthostasis in older adults. It includes guidelines for medication use, suggestions for informing the physician, and a table of commonly used groups of drugs that can cause or exacerbate this problem. Developed as part of the Medication Management Improvement System (MMIS) Toolkit. http://www.homemeds.org/landing_pages/21,3.html
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(New!) Talking With Your Doctor: A Guide for Older People
A resource from the National Institute on Aging designed to help patients communicate more effectively with their doctor and other health care providers; it includes worksheets to help patients/caregivers prepare for important discussions, including life changes, medications, and other concerns.
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(New!) Talking With Your Doctor: A Guide for Older People (Spanish version)
A resource from the National Institute on Aging designed to help patients communicate more effectively with their doctor and other health care providers; it includes worksheets to help patients/caregivers prepare for important discussions on any life changes, medications, and other concerns.
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12-Steps for Creating a Culture of Retention: A Workbook for Home and Community-Based Long-Term Care Providers
A PHI workbook that provides steps and tools to guide agencies in developing recruitment, selection and retention practices. it is intended for use by organizational leaders. Reviews
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AD 8 Dementia Screening Interview
A brief informant interview to detect dementia that can be used as a general screening device to detect cognitive change with different types of informants. The interview can be done with a family member, other informant, or the patient themselves.
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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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Disclaimer/Permissions: All resources posted on the CHAMP web site are provided free of charge for educational, non-profit use only. Necessary permissions have been obtained for any copyrighted materials. Links to resources outside of the CHAMP web site are subject to the host site's policies. Please note that not all resources are specific to home care and they are not intended to replace or substitute professional medical advice regarding the needs of individual patients.