Pregnancy as a Window to Future Health: What long-term health issues to watch for based on a patient’s pregnancy history.
Intimate Partner Violence 1: Initial screening questions to use before a patient has disclosed that they are being abused, because providers have great influence in directing a victim to places for intervention.
Intimate Partner Violence 2: Follow-up screening and trust-building statements once a patient has disclosed that they are being abused.
Smoking Cessation, Smoking Prevention: A series of 7 cards expand on the traditional Ask & Advise, Assess, Assist protocol (Assist – Positive Reinforcement, Assist – Pregnant Women, Assist – Second Hand Smoke). These cards include the kinds of tobacco use to look for, the stages of readiness to quit (Unwilling to Quit, Willing to Quit) how to move a patient towards quitting and how to help when they’re ready. Cards also address how to help pregnant women who smoke quit, and the risks of second hand smoke.
Smoking Cessation – Ask & Advise
Smoking Cessation – Assist: Positive Reinforcement
Smoking Cessation – Assist: Pregnant Women
Smoking Cessation – Assist: Second Hand Smoke
Smoking Cessation – Assist: Unwilling to Quit
Smoking Cessation – Assist: Willing to Quit
Prescribing Opioids/Recovering from Opioid Addiction: Describes step-by-step approach for responsibly prescribing opioids and setting up patient contract for use. Also includes steps for helping a patient recover from opioid addiction.
Behavioral Health cards:
Screening for Depression: Details why clinicians should screen for depression, groups at greater risk for experiencing depression, and the patient self-assessment PHQ-9 clinicians can use to further understand a patient’s experience with mental health and wellness.
Screening for Suicide: Includes the most common list of questions used to determine patient’s risk of suicide. In mnemonic form, this list is known as “IS PATH WARM?”
Bridging Physical and Behavioral Health: Shows how depression affects both physical and behavioral health; includes an infographic illustrating the multiple external risk factors that are correlated to adverse health behaviors and outcomes.
SAFE-T Suicide Assessment Five-step Evaluation and Triage: Provided by the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline, this card details risk factors, protective factors, suicidality patterns, and possible interventions.
Adolescent Girls’ Health Pocket Cards
Strengths-Based-Approach: This pocket card combines questions that “get into adolescent heads” with prompts to strengthen their resiliency indicators throughout the psychosocial screening.
Alcohol Screening and Brief Intervention for Youth: This card is from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.
CRAFFT: Helps determine the probability of substance abuse and dependency; from the Children’s Hospital in Boston.
Resolving Socioeconomic Stressors for Stronger, Healthier Women
Resolving Socioeconomic Stressors: When providers recommend healthcare practices like exercise and safe behaviors, they make assumptions that their patients live in safe neighborhoods, are not in abusive relationships, have stable employment and can read the instructions on their medications. This card provides resources for a wide range of socioeconomic assistance available in RI.
Affordable Care Act: Patient opportunities, including specific benefits for women that lower costs, improves care, improves access and helps families afford good insurance.
Affordable Care Act Timeline: This timeline from 2010 to 2014 shows when key provisions become effective that give more healthcare control back to doctors and their patients.
Resources for Addressing Socioeconomic Stressors
Socioeconomic Stressors Resources Poster: This 11 inch x 17 inch poster is packed with Rhode Island Resources for patients with stressors related to socioeconomic issues.
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