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CPG Implementation Series

Pain Management CPG, Implementation Manual, PM Pocket Guide

This implementation manual delineates a systematic, well-planned implementation process for implementing the Pain Management Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG). It is designed to assist physicians, nurses and advanced practitioners to support evidence-based clinical and management decision-making. It is int...
CPG Teaching Slides

Pain Management in the PALTC Setting Teaching for CNAs

These teaching slides on Pain Management emphasizes how the CNA is often the first member of the IDT to recognize a patient in pain. With an easy to understand methods that are utilized by nursing staff of recognition, assessment, treatment and monitoring, the CNA can utilize the different pain scales to h...
JAMDA

November 22, 2021

Pain Management in the Post-acute and Long-Term Care Setting: A Clinical Practice Guideline (CPG) from the Society for Post-acute and Long-Term Care Medicine (AMDA)

This comprehensive clinical guideline addresses pain issues that arise in care of patients commonly seen in post-acute and long-term care settings, including very old and frail individuals with multiple chronic medical and psychiatric conditions, short-stay patients needing posthospitalization care, and yo...
CPG Pocket Guides

Pain Management Pocket Guide (Set of 5)

Pain management in post-acute/long-term care (PALTC) is identified in a step-wise approach for patients in this setting. This quick reference pocket guide includes the general principles for prescribing and titrating opioids including opioid titration options. Pain medications, as well as non-pharmacologic...
JAMDA

April 18, 2017

Pain Trajectories of Nursing Home Residents Nearing Death

Although examining point in time prevalence of pain among nursing home (NH) residents has value, there is a lack of evidence describing the actual changes (ie, trajectories) in pain that take place during their last 6 months of life. The main objective of this study is to describe the major pain trajectori...