Development, evaluation, and implementation of an online pain assessment training program for staff in rural long-term care facilities: a case series approach.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pain among long-term care (LTC) residents, and especially residents with dementia, is often underassessed and this underassessment has been attributed, in part, to gaps in front-line staff education. Furthermore, although evidence-based clinical guidelines for pain assessment in LTC are available, pain assessment protocols are often inconsistently implemented and, when they are implemented, it is usually within urban LTC facilities located in large metropolitan centers. Implementation science methodologies are needed so that changes in pain assessment practices can be integrated in rural facilities. Thus, our purpose was to evaluate an online pain assessment training program and implement a standardized pain assessment protocol in rural LTC environments.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Gallant N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9016985 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature