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Nursing Home Collaborative
Mayday Fund Award
The Mayday Fund has awarded a grant to the American Academy of Nursing of $153,954 over two years beginning October 1, 2007. The purpose of the grant is to support the Nursing Home Collaborative (NHC) Pain Initatives.
Four NHC Pain Initatives
1) Compile the research-based literature on intervention components that have been successful in increasing the assessment and management of pain in nursing homes.
2) Review the pain assessment tools currently available on the City of Hope Pain Resource website and existing quality improvement resources available for assessing and managing pain to produce a compilation of current research based pain assessment and management tools.
3) Develop a central place where nursing homes can access the best assessment tools and quality improvement resources compiled in the second initiative.
4) Develop a user friendly “tool kit” that would assist front-line nursing staff in implementing these research supported best practices at the bedside and thus help achieve the Campaign’s quality indicators.
Background
Since the early 1950's, when the federal government first required states to establish some form of licensing for nursing homes, the nursing home industry in the United States has grown to serve millions of people in tens of thousands of facilities. Initially conceptualized as providing long-term care, nursing homes have evolved over the past twenty years to include multiple levels of care for residents with high levels of acuity and or highly complex care needs. This change, along with complex funding and regulatory structures that have developed over time, have created challenges for those who care for residents in nursing homes, including nurses. The HCGNE Nursing Home Collaborative was formed in 2006 to address these challenges.Coordinating Center
1000 Vermont Avenue, NW
Suite 910
Washington, DC 20005
E-mail: BAGNC@aannet.org