"Train the Trainer"
Educational Curriculum
Contact: Dr. Phil Clark, Geriatric Education Center,
University of Rhode Island
- Design a "Train the
Trainer" educational curriculum to be
used by nurse trainers in educating certified nursing assistants in the area of
symptom management and palliative care in nursing homes -- with models geared towards new
employee education. CNA's will be taught the physical, psychosocial, and spiritual aspects
of pain management at the appropriate level.
- Create training tools that would aid
in all new staff orientation. The curriculum
"package" will include brief background material on principles of adult
education for use with culturally diverse learners (CNAs), basic content on pain
assessment and management, lesson plans (video tape, power point slides), descriptive case
studies for discussion and application, and short "just in time" teaching
modules to be used for "teachable moments" when the clinical need arises in the
nursing home.
- Provide educational tools that can
be used by CNAs at patients' bedside;
assessment tools that are "user friendly" with resources and telephone numbers
for more difficult pain management questions are being developed."Educational
aides" will be professionally prepared, designed and printed, and be available for
widespread distribution and used by "frontline" staff in nursing homes.
- Produce pain referral sources with fax-back of information to physicians and health care
providers.
- Make available charting tools to facilitate the ongoing documentation and monitoring of pain.
Curriculum Tools
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