Clinical Tools and Forms for Long-Term Care

Barbara Acello, MS, RN

Is your library of long-term care tools and forms a bit cluttered or a challenge to navigate? Minimize space and save time searching for the clinical, legal, and daily maintenance–related forms you need with Clinical Tools and Forms for Long-Term Care. 

This valuable book combines an extensive collection of long-term care tools and forms from author Barbara Acello, MS, RN, into an all-in-one comprehensive resource. Including clinical forms such as pain and activities of daily living assessments, as well as regulatory forms such as HIPAA rules and regulations, infection control, and facility-specific policies, the book’s content is organized by topic so long-term care providers can instantly reference, download, and implement the forms they need.

Table of Contents

Clinical

• Admission, Transfer, Discharge
• Assessment, Nursing
• Audits & Checklists
• Code/Medical Emergency
• Diabetes Monitoring & Medication
• Enteral, Parenteral Nutrition
• Falls
• Infection Control
• Medicare
• Medication
• Miscellaneous
• Nursing Assistant
• Nursing (Licensed) Documentation
• Nutrition (Oral) and Hydration
• Pain
• Physician Services
• Restraints
• Skin/Pressure Ulcer/Skin Tears
• Social Services/Behavior/Mental Health
• Vital Signs, Height/Weight
• Wandering/Eloping

Documentation

• Audits & Checklists
• Certificates
• Code/Medical Emergency
• Employee Issues/Human Resources
• Infection Control
• In-Service/Education
• Miscellaneous
• Nursing Assistant
• Nursing (Licensed) Documentation
• Report
• Resident Consents and Releases
• Social Services/Behavior/Mental Health
• Wandering/Eloping

Legal

• Advance Directive, DNR (No Code), POLST, Vial of Life
• Contracts and Agreements
• Employee Issues/Human Resources
• Medicare
• Nursing (Licensed) Documentation
• Resident Consents and Releases

Restorative

• ADL
• Bowel and Bladder
• Restorative Nursing
• Task Analysis

Top 10 Forms

• Restorative Nursing Care of Plan Form
• Admission Bladder Assessment Form
• Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment
• Vaccine Consent
• Elopement Patterning Tool
• Behavioral Scale for Cognitively Impaired Adults
• Brink/Yesavage Geriatric Depression Scale
• Skin Tear Risk Assessment
• Fall Prevention Assessment
• Medicare Redetermination Request Form

Who should read this book?

• Administrators
• Directors of nursing (DON)
• Nurses
• Assistant DONs
• Staff educators
• Clinical managers
• Directors
• Nurse managers
• QA committee members
• Quality assurance staff

About the Author

Barbara Acello, MS, RN, is an independent nurse consultant and educator in Denton, Texas. She is a member of the Texas Nurses’ Association, NANDA International, and the American College of Healthcare Administrators, where she was honored with the Educator of the Year Award for 2007 and the Journalism Award for 2009. Acello has worked as a director of nursing, administrator, and long-term care facility consultant and educator; she has held numerous corporate-level positions in eight states.

Published: June 2015

Page count: 496
Dimensions: 8.5x11
ISBN: 978-1-55645-476-9