Innovations and Trends in Healthcare
- Identify and modify fall risk factors
- What has changed in fall prevention
- The future for fall prevention
Predict and Prevent Falls – With a Comprehensive Risk Assessment
- Nursing assessment
- High risk fall conditions and diagnoses
- Changes in condition
- Mental health evaluation
- Medication review
- Physical health assessment
- Ambulatory status, gait, and balance
- Multi-factorial causes of falls
Expand Your Toolbox for Fall Prevention and Post-Fall Interventions
- Rely on interdisciplinary teamwork to prevent falls
- Immediate care considerations following a patient fall – with/without injury
- Fall risk screening tools
- Current guidelines
- Technology to prevent falls and limit injury
- Addressing alarm fatigue
- Alternatives to 1:1s
Design an Innovative Plan of Care for Your Patients
- The evidence behind fall interventions, including surveillance and reduction of injury
- Patient and family education
- Safer transfer techniques, wheelchair safety and evaluation of assistive devices
- Critically develop an individualized approach
- Patients with known history of frequent falls
- Patients who have sustained a recent fall related injury
An Effective Fall Prevention Program for your Department/Organization
- Effective individualized nursing care plan and documentation
- QI planning related to fall prevention
- A voice through committee presence
Case Studies: Put Knowledge to Practice
- Examples of fall cases and identifying prevention strategies
- Educational opportunities for staff
- Reducing barriers to change
- Successfully treating noncompliant patients
- Family support