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Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Center and Home Recognized in Nursing Spectrum for Dramatic Improvements in Pain Management Performance
07/23/08
Efforts by a Staten Island nursing home to dramatically improve its performance on pain management have been recognized in an article by the managing editor of the New York/New Jersey division of Nursing Spectrum.
Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Center and Home reduced the incidence of chronic pain among its residents from 5.1% to 0.8% over a four-year period, according to Janice Petrella Lynch, RN, MSN, in an online article appearing at Nurse.com. Lynch credits the facility with developing pain assessment tools to be used upon admission, readmission or at any time a resident experiences pain. Tools assess pain experienced by non-verbal as well as verbal patients. Interdisciplinary pain management teams design individualized intervention plans, with an emphasis on non-pharmaceutical interventions, whenever possible. IPRO is purchasing reprints of the article, which it is now distributing to providers and consumers across New York, free-of-charge. For a copy, contact Sylvia Toufexis at 516-326-7767, ext. 262.
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