Full Course Description
Fall Prevention Certification Course: Best Practice Solutions to Reduce Falls and Injuries in Your Most Challenging Fall-Risk Patients
Program Information
Objectives
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Determine who is likely to fall and how to modify the risk factors through a comprehensive fall risk assessment.
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Analyze the current screening guidelines and standards of care in the prevention of falls.
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Evaluate the current fall prevention EBP strategies for use in current practice.
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Appraise new technologies for future implementation through the use of AI and SMART technology.
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Respond to difficult patient/family situations to support the patient’s safety goals.
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Differentiate effective approaches to treatment planning and documentation to reduce the risk of liability.
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Assess possible fall risk interventions to avoid the use of restraints.
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Evaluate precipitating causes for falls to incorporate preventative measures.
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Formulate a comprehensive evaluation process for high fall risk patients.
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Analyze medications that are known to contribute in various ways to fall risks.
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Assess for injury and adverse patient outcomes following a fall.
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Determine the tools necessary for a multidisciplinary fall prevention program.
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Choose patient specific fall prevention interventions for a successful fall prevention plan.
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Evaluate the impact of common gait disorders on fall risk.
Outline
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
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Physician Assistants
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapy Assistants
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Risk Managers
Copyright :
06/11/2021
Fall Prevention Solutions: Today’s Best Practices, Guidelines and Standards for Individualized Care
Program Information
Objectives
- Evaluate the latest advances in fall prevention for use in your practice.
- Assess a patient’s root cause for fall risk to safely restore balance, mobility and function.
- Determine home based risk factors that contribute to falls and determine how these risk factors can be mitigated.
Outline
Fall Risk Mitigation Essentials
- The latest changes from the CDC – STEADI INITATIVE
- Intrinsic risk factors
- Extrinsic risk factors
- Medications and substance use – BEERS CRITERIA
Predict and Prevent Falls: Tools to Evaluate Your Patients
- Balance
- Visual-spatial function
- Vestibulo-ocular reflex
- Sensory-motor integration
- Proprioception
- Gait and mobility
- Age-related degeneration
- The importance of sleep
- Home safety
Reduce Fall Risk and Restore Mobility and Function
- Exercise prescription for reducing fall risk
- Restore balance, mobility and function
- Minimize fall impact and injury
- Teach vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) techniques
- Teach gaze stabilization techniques
- Improve multitasking, coordination and gait
- Resolve vision problems that contribute to falls
- Boost cognition, memory and focus
- Reduce environmental fall risks
- Address “fear of falling”
- Quick tips to recognize abnormal gait patterns in patients who have a fall history
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Physician Assistants
- Physicians
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapist Assistants
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Speech Language Pathologists
- Social Workers
- Nursing Home Administrators
Copyright :
10/28/2021
Geriatric Pharmacology: Practical Application Through Patient Cases
Program Information
Objectives
- Differentiate between multiple overlapping comorbidities.
- Determine when Beers Criteria clarifies-risk versus benefit in real time.
- Develop clinical acumen to recognize red flags.
- Analyze the implications of team dynamics when assessing the geriatric client.
Outline
Beers in Review
- Foundational review of Beers to date
- Why is Beers relevant in our day-to-day practice?
Age-related Physiologic Changes
- Pharmacokinetics
- Pharmacodynamics
Beers Update
- Review of the top 5 updates
- A closer look in practicum
Systems Approach
- Neuro
- Endocrine
- Cardiac
- pulmonary
- G I
- Infectious Disease
- Musculoskeletal
Target Audience
- Nurses
- Nurse Practitioners
- Clinical Nurse Specialists
- Physician Assistants
- Physicians
- Physical Therapists
- Physical Therapist Assistants
- Occupational Therapists
- Occupational Therapy Assistants
- Speech Language Pathologists
- Social Workers
- Nursing Home Administrators
Copyright :
09/09/2021