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
  1. Pain Fundamentals (60 minutes)
  2. Psychosocial/Spiritual, Communications, and Pain Treatments (60 minutes)
  3. Medication Dosing (60 minutes)