NICHE Encyclopedia

A powerful resource for everyone - the NICHE Encyclopedia is accessible to anyone with an interest in quality geriatric care: NICHE sites, non-NICHE sites, patients, family caregivers, students, etc. This comprehensive reference tool can help users answer a wide variety of health care questions. The Encyclopedia even has a special feedback function where users can comment on the entries and help NICHE improve the content. Check back each week for new entries!

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• ACE Units
  • ACE Model
  • ACE Unit Admission Criteria
  • ACE Unit Bed Number and Length of Stay
  • ACE Unit Order Set
• Aging Demographics
• Alternative Interventions
  • Therapeutic Touch
  • Touch Therapies
• Assessment
  • Alcohol Use Screening
  • Bladder Scanner
  • Cystitis Decision Aid
  • Delirium Risk Assessment
  • Executive Dysfunction
  • Fall Risk Assessment
  • Mini Cog
  • Modified Caregiver Strain Index
  • Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index
• Beds
  • ACE Unit: Bed Number and Length of Stay
  • Full Enclosure Bed
  • Low Height Bed
• Consumer Education
  • Consumer Information
  • Preventive Guidelines
  • Speak Up Initiative
• Continence /GU-GI Health
  • Bladder Scanner
  • Toilet Sensors
• Delirium
  • Delirium Risk Assessment
  • Delirium/Dementia Therapeutic Activity Kits
  • Mini Cog
  • Sundowning
• Dementia
  • Delirium/Dementia Therapeutic Activity Kits
  • ED Dementia
  • Executive Dysfunction
• Falls
  • 4-P Rounding
  • Adult Walker
  • Environmental Fall Prevention
  • Fall Rates
  • Fall Risk Assessment
  • Fall Signage
  • Hourly Rounds
  • Low Height Bed
  • Toilet Sensors
• Geriatric Models of Care
  • Hospital Elder Life Program
  • NICHE Implementation
  • Transitional Models
• Geropsychiatric Issues
  • Alcohol Use Screening
  • Elopement
• Identifiers
  • Fall Signage
• Interventions
  • Adult Walker
  • Hearing Amplifiers
  • Quiet Hour
• Medications
  • Ambien
  • Beers Criteria
• Patient & Family Issues
  • Caregiver Support
  • Modified Caregiver Strain Index
  • Visitation Hours
• Prevention
  • Consumer Information
  • Preventive Guidelines
  • Speak Up Initiative
• Professional Issues
  • Credentials
  • Hourly Rounds
  • Visitation Hours
• Restraints
  • Full Enclosure Bed
  • Mittens
• Safety
  • Adult Walker
  • Beers Criteria
  • Fall Rates
  • Fall Signage
  • Low Height Bed
• Sensory Changes
  • Color Perception
  • Hearing Amplifiers
  • Hearing Changes
• Sleep
  • Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index
  • Quiet Hour