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Assessment Tools

Brief Pain Inventory (BPI)

Purpose of the BPI tool is to assess the severity of pain and the impact of pain on daily functions. The tool can be used for patients with pain from chronic diseases or conditions such as cancer, osteoarthritis and low back pain, or with pain from acute conditions such as postoperative pain.

Assessment areas included are severity of pain, impact of pain on daily function, location of pain, pain medications and amount of pain relief in the past 24 hours or the past week.

The BPI copyright is held by Dr Charles S. Cleeland (1991). The copyright applies to the BPI and all it's derivatives in any language.

Retrieved from http://www.npcrc.org/files/news/briefpain_short.pdf 

Brief Pain Inventory (BPI)
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Dehydration Risk Appraisal Checklist

A one time, single resident risk assessment for dehydration based of the University of Iowa Dehydration BPG.

References:

Mentes, J. C. & The Iowa Veterans Affairs Nursing Research Consortium. (2004). Evidence-Based Practice Guideline: Hydration management. Iowa City, IA: The University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center Research Translation and Dissemination Core.

Mentes, J. C. & Iowa-Veterans Affairs Research Consortium. (2000). Hydration management. Journal of Gerontological Nursing, 6-15.

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Bowel and Bladder Continence Assessment

A comprehensive assessment of bladder and bowel function for LTC residents developed by the LTC BPC Project with Toronto Best Practice Steering Committee and Northwest Continence Collaborative (2005). Includes list of medications that affect continence and treatment options.

Reference: Toronto Best Practice Committee and Northwest Continence Collaborative (2006). Bladder & Bowel Continence Assessment.. Toronto.

Sources: AHCPR. 2006. Urinary Incontinence. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=hstat6.section.10079. ; Brigham & Women’s Hospital. 2004, Urinary incontinence http://www.brighamandwomens.org/medical/HandbookArticles/Urinaryincontinence.pdf. ; The Hartford Institute for Geriatric Nursing. 2001. Urinary incontinence. http://www.hartfordign.org/publications/trythis/issue11.pdf. ; IC-5 Continence Project, 2005, http://www.hospitalreport.ca/projects/QI_projects/IC5.html.  Rehabilitation Nursing Foundation. 2002. Constipation. www.rehabnurse.org. ; RNAO. 2005, Preventing Constipation; Prompting Continence. http://www.rnao.org/bestpractices.  ; Royal Women’s Hospital. 2005. Urinary incontinence, http://www.rwh.org.au/rwhcpg/womenshealth.cfm?doc_id=3661.  ; Singapore Ministry of Health. 2003, http://www.moh.gov.sg/cmaweb/attachments/publication/Nursing_Management_of_Patients_with_Urinary_Incontinence_1-2003.pdf.  U.S. National Library of Medicine and U.S. National Institute of Health. 2006. Drugs, supplements. < http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html 

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