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Patient falls are the leading cause of injury related deaths for patients over 65 years of age and the number one hospital-acquired condition, making it a critical patient safety and risk management issue. Every hospital should have a falls team to reduce the number of falls, severity of falls, and increase patient mobility.

During this program, our expert will provide essential guidelines for falls prevention using evidence-based literature. She will review CMS and TJC standards on falls, AHRQ’s fall prevention toolkit, TJC’s 21 targeted solutions, and IT process to reduce falls. Attendees will learn every aspect of fall prevention and understand why it requires a multifaceted approach to address the issue.

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After this webinar participants will be able to:

1. Explain what should be in a hospital falls program.
2. Describe what constitutes a fall, including how to measure the fall rate.
3. Explain intrinsic and extrinsic causes of falls.
4. Describe how toileting and hourly rounding can reduce falls in high-risk patients.
5. Describe how decreased mobility results in patient falls.
6. List evidence-based falls assessment tools used in inpatient and outpatient settings.

Agenda topics:

Introduction to Falls Prevention

- Falls as a TJC Sentinel Event	-Standard of care, lawsuits & case law	- Falls roadmap
- Predictors for risks of falls	- TJC targeted solutions	- Benchmark & comparison of falls
- CMS adverse events & payment issues	- AHRQ fall prevention toolkit	- Risk assessment tools

 

Causes of Falls

- Intrinsic vs. extrinsic	- Effect of prescriptions	- Use of restraints
- History of falls	- Gait & balance deficit	- Bathroom & bed designs
- Weakness in lower extremities	- Shift changes	- And more

 

Assessments & Interventions

- 3 classifications of falls	- Intervention & prevention strategies	- Risk assessment
- Assessing individual risk factors	- Staff responsibilities	- Medication & fall risks
- Monitoring a program's effectiveness	- Bedrail hazards	- New guidelines on falls
- Educating staff, patients & family	- How IT program reduced falls by 50%	- Evaluating the environment
- Comprehensive falls prevention program	- Changes in condition after a fall	- New guidelines on falls

 

Target Audience:

Anyone involved with or interested in falls regulation and standards, including but not limited to: Fall Team Members, Falls Champion, Falls Clinical Nurse Specialist, CEOs, CFOs, COOs, CMOs, CNOs, CE Directors, Quality Improvement Staff, Physicians, Nurses (all levels), Compliance Officers, Health Information Management Staff, Infection Preventionist, QAPI Staff, CMS Liaisons, TJC Liaisons, Registration Staff, Safety Officers and Staff, Pharmacy Staff, Ethics Committee Members, Consumer Advocates, Risk Managers, Legal Counsel, Regulatory Affairs Staff, and anyone involved in preventing patient falls.

 

Your order includes:  

• Live attendance and a complimentary recording.
• One connection per order. Call 800.688.2421 for additional connections/locations.
• Participation in the live Q&A with the speaker following the presentation.
• Access to the specially created presentation handouts (approximately 48 hours in advance).

Your Speaker: Sue Dill Calloway, RN, MSN, JD

Sue is a nurse attorney, medico-legal consultant and long-time educator for nurses, physicians, and other healthcare providers. She is a frequent speaker and is well known across the country in the areas of healthcare law, risk management, and patient safety. She has authored over 100 books and hundreds of articles. For AHC Media, she authored Cracking the Code: Understanding the CMS Hospital CoP Standards on Anesthesia.

Ms. Calloway received her Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Science in Nursing, Master of Science in Nursing, and Doctor of Jurisprudence from Capital University in Columbus, Ohio. Additionally, she is certified in healthcare risk management by the American Society for Healthcare Risk Management and is the first in the country to be certified in CMS regulatory compliance.