For home-visit nurses · Ontario
Home-care nursing toolkit
Two complementary aids for the home visit: a structured first-contact screen for every new client, and a symptom guide that tailors the assessment to a known patient's comorbidities.
Holistic intake
First-contact screening
A stepped walk-through for the first home visit — preliminary screen across the core domains, focused clinical follow-up where a concern is flagged, then an urgency band, comprehensive-assessment recommendation, and referrals. Inspired by the interRAI Contact Assessment.
Start screening →Problem-oriented
Symptom-based assessment guide
Already know the patient? Pick a presenting symptom (chest pain, new confusion, falls, breathlessness, and more) and their known comorbidities — the guide adapts what to assess, the can't-miss red flags, and the differential to each condition. Mirrors interRAI's clinical-assessment-protocol layer.
Open symptom guide →Educational and workflow-support tool — not a medical device. This guide is inspired by the stepped interRAI Contact Assessment used in Ontario home care, but it does not reproduce the official assessment or its Assessment Urgency Algorithm, and it does not replace clinical judgement or a formal assessment by a regulated health professional. In an emergency, call 911. All answers stay in your browser and are never sent anywhere.