Geriatric Institutional Assessment Profile

Sample Questions

1. For the elderly patients you care for, do you think the following treatments are used too little, appropriately, or too often?

a. mechanical restraints (such as posey vests, geri-chairs)

b. sleeping medications (such as tranquilizers)

c. incontinence pads

d. adult diapers

e. urinary catheters

f. pressure mattresses

g. adaptive devices (such as foam wedges, bed alarms)

h. pain medication

I. tube feeding

j. pressure ulcer treatment (such as turning bedridden patients)

2. Do you use these services daily, weekly, monthly, less than monthly, hardly ever, not available?

a. geriatric nurse specialist or geriatric nurse practitioner

b. geriatrician

c. geriatric social worker

d. geriatric psychologist/psychiatrist

e. geriatric rounds and inservices

f. geriatric texts and journals

g. regional/national geriatric conferences, workshops