Pain Fundamental for Long Term Care Facilities
Project Owner: San Diego Hospice and the Institute for Palliative Medicine (SDHIPM)
Project Role
- Designed and developed e-learning.
Project Purpose
- Develop palliative care training for staff at Seacrest Village, long term care facility.
Project Goal
- Understanding the fundamentals of pain management and assessment of pain.
- Describe how pain impacts a patient psychosocially and spiritually.
- Identify pain management treatments and how to manage side effects.
- Understand how the process of dosing of mediation impact’s a patients pain level.
Project Audience
- Newly hired Home Health Aids and Licensed Vocational Nurses at Seacrest Village.
Project Deliverables
- Three e-learning courses; each includes practice questions and a final comprehensive assessment
- Pain Fundamentals (60 minutes)
- Psychosocial/Spiritual, Communications, and Pain Treatments (60 minutes)
- Medication Dosing (60 minutes)