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Catalog Number : ngd1269
Title : Patient Falls: A Proactive Approach to Reducing Falls at Your Hospital
Speaker : Sue Dill
Price : $ 225 per phone connection
Duration : 90 minutes
Webplay Available For This Webinar
Webinar Description:
CMS included 10 hospital
acquired conditions (HAC) in which hospitals will not receive payment related to the
adverse events for Medicare patients. One of these areas includes falls. Every hospital
should consider having a falls team to look at this patient safety issue. Preventing falls
among patients and residents requires a multifaceted approach. This seminar will discuss
recognition, evaluation, assessment, categories of risk, policies and procedures,
evidenced based literature, toileting, incident reports and prevention of falls. This is
one of the most significant challenges for hospitals and other health care facilities. It
will include information on medications that increase the fall rate and the pharmacist
role in the fall program. This seminar will discuss how to comply with the Joint
Commission and CMS hospital standards on falls. Liability and risk management issues will
be discussed. Attendance is a must for anyone serving on the falls team and anyone
interested in preventing and reducing the number of falls in the hospital setting.
Target Audience:
- Fall Team Members
- Quality Management Coordinator
- Patient Safety Officer
- Chief Nursing Officer
- Chief Medical Officer or VP of Medical Staff
- Pharmacist
- Risk Manager
- Hospital Legal Counsel
- Occupational or Physical Therapists
- Physicians
- VP of Medical Staff
- Nurse Managers
- Nursing Assistants
- Nurse Supervisor
- Nurse Educator
- Quality Director
- Nurse Supervisors
- Joint Commission Coordinator
- Compliance Officer
- Consumer Advocate
- Department Directors
Webinar Objectives:
- List reasons why every hospital should have a falls program including requirements to comply with Joint Commission and CMS standards
- Describe methods to measure and define falls and what should be included in a falls assessment
- Explain way to prevent intrinsic and extrinsic causes of falls
- Recall that falls are one of the 10 things CMS will not pay for on Medicare patients if they occur during hospitalization
- Discuss how toileting can reduce falls in high risk patients
- Why do You Need a Falls Program?
- Falls as a Joint Commission (TJC) Sentinel Event
- Predicators for Risk for Falls
- TJC and CMS Standards
- CMS Adverse events and payment issue
- Standard of Care, Lawsuits and Claims, Case law
- Extent of Problem
- Definitions of fall: Morse, Hendrich II, Maryland Quality Indicator Program, Etc.
- Measurement of fall: Benchmarking, Comparison of falls
- Falls Research
- Intrinsic (age, history of falls, gait and balance deficit, weakness lower extremities, four or more prescriptions, decreased visual acuity, etc.)
- Extrinsic (distracting noises, use of restraints, toilets in low position, bed in high position, time of day-increased risk at shift change, highly polished floor, poorly designed bathrooms, etc.)
- 3 classifications of falls; accidental, unanticipated physiological falls, anticipated physiological falls
- Intervention/Prevention Strategies
- Risk Assessment
- Assessing Individual Risk Factors: Admission
- Change in Condition after a Fall
- Instruments to Conduct Risk Assessment
- Comprehensive Fall Prevention Program
- Environmental rounds, · Responsibilities of staff
- Evaluating the Environment
- Bedrail Hazard
- Clinical Alarm System
- Staffing Levels
- Toileting
- Staff Education
- Patient/Family Education
- Restraint Issues
- Get up and go test procedure
- Post Fall Assessment
- FMEA/RCA
- Monitoring a Program’s Effectiveness
Upon attending this course you will receive a 1.8 Nursing Contact hour or a 1 1/2 Contact Hour Attendance Certificate. There is usually a reciprocal agreement between state associations to allow these to count for each state. If you have any questions, please ask your state association.