RACF resident assessment tools
Use of validated assessment tools to evaluate residents with acute care needs supports improved health outcomes. The assessment tools recommended here are based on:
- Published literature in both residential and acute care settings evaluating feasibility, clinical validity and inter-rater reliability
- Ability to integrate assessments with acute care systems, allowing for evaluation of temporal trends in response to treatments / care
The below tools are referred to in individual pathways – all users should ensure that they undertake training in their use and understand how to reliably perform these assessments.
It is acknowledged that individual providers may have alternate tools that are used.
- PAINAD
- Abbey Pain Scale
- AVPU: Assessment tool for conscious state
- Cornell Scale for Depression in Dementia
- Delirium screening tool: Confusion Assessment Method (CAM) or the source page with secondary link
- Neuropsychiatric inventory
- Residential care and Multipurpose Health Facility falls assessment and management plan (PDF 190 kB)
- Residential care facility post fall pathway (PDF 870 kB)
- QUT Pressure injury flow chart
- QUT Skin tear management flow chart
- QUT Arterial leg ulcer flow chart
- QUT Venous leg ulcer flow chart
- QUT Diabetic Foot ulcer flow chart
- 4AT - Rapid Clinical Test for Delirium Detection (the4at.com)