Evidence Based Practice - Updated Pain Assessment

Updated Pain Assessment for the Cognitively Impaired

To stay in accordance with current evidence based practice, UMC has updated their inpatient nursing documentation of the cognitively impaired patient.  This will have small changes to outpatient pain documentation as well.  No changes will be noticible unless you select that option for cognitively impaired while doing your pain documentation.  You will then be taken to the newly updated subscreen to continue as usual.

The new cognitively impaired pain assessment tool will go in to effect later today and should cause minimal workflow change. 

A side note to point out is that each field has reference text associated to it that can assist staff with how to score a particular field if they get stuck.