Please Review with your Managers and give Feedback!!!!

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Please Review with your Managers and give Feedback!!!!
Swedhin, Amanda M
Wed 4/30/2014 3:43 PM
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Proposed white board changes.docx; Patient Pain Education Tool v6.doc;
Hello Pain Championsl
As promised, I am sending out the suggestions we came up with from our April meeting to start working on
improving our HCAPS scores. To review:
-Aurora has produced a patient Pain Education sheet that needs to be included in the Roadmap to Care
admission packet for every patient. Please discuss these with your unit manager for them to order through
Documents on Demand-the copy I have attached is only a draft. The DOD # to order them is PED05219. They
need to be printed on bright orange paper. I have discussed use of these with an Educator from the Outpatient
clinics
(Maude Becker) and we should see this trickling into their Charge nurse and managers meetings in the
next month to talk about how they want to utilize this prior to coming in for procedures. Barb had mentioned
placing these in a patient's
chart in the PACU, however, it has been decided that the PACU will laminate these
sheets and place them at the patient's bedside for use in their department-it will be each departments
job
to
make sure that they get it into their Roadmap to Care starting as soon as your manager gets the sheets.
-Aurora came up with the following scripting ideas to help nurses know the right way to start discussions about
the Pain Education sheet:
r. I want to work with you to develop a plan to manage your pain.
z. ls your pain always well controlled?
: Am I doing everything I can to help with your pain?
These would be great questions to use when talking to staff about pain assessment using the sheet. What do we
think of these? Want to make sure we're all using the same verbiage when talking to our staff so that the
message is consistent house-wide.
-l have attached the suggestions for the addition to our current white boards to help aide discussions about pain
management. As Angie talked about at our last meeting, the Surgical unit was having difficult time with pain
satisfaction scores and enacted the use of a white board with similar wording/structure and increased their
satisfaction scores by approxim ately 4Ao/o (please correct me if l'm completely wrong on those numbers, Angie).
Our proposal that we need each of you to come to your manager with is to add a laminated copy of the attached
form to your patient's white boards in the room (attaching it however you see fit-my suggestion is Velcro, but
something else might work for your unit) that you could use to write down your patient's comfort function
goals, the timing of their medications and alternative therapies that you discuss/the patient would like to use.
BEFORE WE START USING THIS, PLEASE TAKE IT TO YOUR MANAGERS AND SEND ANY FEEDBACK TO KAthETiNC
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