
- Was an appropriate, comprehensive, and timely pain assessment completed for this older adult within 24 hours of admission? (Definition: Using a pain assessment tool that is appropriate to the older adult’s condition and cognitive status that includes pain history, type of pain, location, intensity, diagnosis/cause, and pain management goal)
- Was an appropriate, comprehensive, and timely pain assessment for this older adult completed upon a significant change of condition that affected older adult’s pain? (Definition: Using a pain assessment tool that is appropriate to the older adult’s condition and cognitive status that includes pain history, type of pain, location, intensity, diagnosis/cause, and pain management goal)
- Is there an individual pain goal and treatment plan identified for this older adult documented in the care plan? (Definition: addresses personal pain goals, and interventions/strategies to address the effects of the pain, to alleviate aggravating factors, to support alleviating factors, and to address drug side effects)
- Are the older adult’s analgesic or treatment side effects assessed and documented if they have them? If no, state none.
- Did older adults have their moderate to severe pain treated appropriately? (If the pain was severe, did nurse choose the medication ordered for moderate to severe pain)
- Was there a reassessment of older adult’s pain following therapy? (Definition: within 1 hr of analgesic administration)