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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Risk Management & Patient Safety > Evidence-Based Falls Prevention: A Study Guide for Nurses Evidence-Based Falls Prevention: A Study Guide for Nurses Carole Eldridge, MSN, RN, CNAA, BC, Jodi Eisenberg, CPHQ, CPMSM Softbound book Size: 11" x 8.5" ISBN 1578394902 HCPro / Opus October 2004 2 Nursing Contact Hours Price: $59.00   JCAHO's National Patient Safety Goals are extremely critical to your survey success. With this resource, you can keep patients safe and - prepare your nurses for survey day. Falls are the largest single category of reported incidents in hospitals. Patient falls are often cited as the second most frequent cause of harm for patients. This handy resource is designed especially to help nursing staff understand the vital role they play in an effective and comprehensive fall-prevention program at your facility. This is a user-friendly resource that provides falls risk factor assessment and prevention program information, ideas, and tools. Special Note to Nurse Executives and Risk Managers: This book offers two nursing contact hours. The book includes an exam and evaluation. This training solution is perfect to use as an instructional guide for group learning. It contains a comprehensive overview of key fall-risk and fall-prevention studies to ensure valuable, evidence-based training. You may wish to purchase at least one copy of this study guide for each nursing manager and develop a plan to engage every floor nurse in completing the study program. They will thank you for the nursing hours - and, you will be better prepared for survey. This tool is great for self-learning. The self-study guide format allows nurses to use it when it is most convenient for them. And the exam helps assess and document the effectiveness of the training and the knowledge gained by the learner. Evidence-Based Falls Prevention shows nurses how to: Plan care through proactive screening and interdisciplinary assessment Learn how to perform an assessment to determine what kind of care is required to meet a patient's needs Analyze how and where falls happen Take the first step to prevention by identifying risk factors and finding out where you're most vulnerable Encourage and ensure effective reporting of patient falls By implementing this study program in your facility, you are taking a critical step to protect your facility and will be able to produce documented proof to show surveyors that your facility is in full compliance with training. Risk managers, survey coordinators and nurse executives will be able to: Implement organization-wide steps that will help reduce the overall risk of falls. It's everyone's responsibility to keep patients safe Perform clinical assessment reviews - Should a fall occur in your facility, it is essential to find out exactly what went wrong in order to prevent future incidents Incorporate key elements that are essential to an effective fall-prevention program, field-tested strategies that work Organize a valuable, multifactorial intervention program - Individualized for each patient based on a careful assessment of that individual's condition and situation to ensure every precaution is taken to prevent a fall The financial repercussions and adverse patient outcomes associated with patient falls are among the most serious risk management issues a hospital faces. As lawsuits become more prevalent, you need to make sure you train your staff consistently and effectively to prevent falls. Evidence-Based Falls Prevention is your answer to a successful and vigilant falls-prevention program that will keep your patients safe and exceed the JCAHO's expectations. Those who use this Study Guide will be able to: State the goal of performing an assessment and developing a plan of care Describe why documentation is important State the two phases of nursing assessment Identify elements of the functional screen Define a fall Identify several non-modifiable intrinsic fall risk factors List examples of modifiable risk factors List functional risk factor modifications Identify recommendations for preventing falls in the cognitively impaired List specific medical conditions responsible for falls that are often overlooked Identify hospitalwide steps that may reduce the risk of falls overall List modifiable risk factors that a good fall-prevention program should address State the three main elements of a fall reduction program Identify elements that should be included in a multifactorial intervention program List questions to ask after a fall to determine the appropriate response State factors to consider when conducting a postfall assessment in an unwitnessed fall Identify three distinct information records you should keep about every fall This Study Guide was written for: Nurses Directors of nursing Risk managers Staff development coordinators CNOs/VPs of patient services Human resources Quality directors Patient safety directors This educational activity for 2 contact hours. HCPro is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation. Carole Eldridge, MSN, RN, CNAA, BC, is a board-certified nurse administrator, advanced, with extensive experience in starting and managing healthcare companies. Eldridge has opened and operated several Medicare and private duty home health agencies, a hospice, a medical equipment company, and a healthcare publishing company, overseeing a four-state home care company as Chief Executive Officer for several years. She has served as both National Staff Development Coordinator and Vice President of Resident and Quality Services for a large assisted living company. Eldridge has written and published more than sixty training publications for unlicensed attendants in long-term care, as well as a number of articles for professional journals. Currently working as an assistant professor in a university college of nursing, Eldridge speaks often to industry and community groups on staff development and training, employee retention, career ladder programs, and healthcare administration. She is a partner in CareTrack Resources, Inc., a firm that provides continuing education for administrators and nurses and consulting services for healthcare companies. Jodi Eisenberg, CPHQ, CPMSM, is coordinator of accreditation and licensure at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, an editorial advisor for Briefings on JCAHO, author for HCPro, and healthcare consultant. During her 18 years in healthcare, Eisenberg has worked primarily in the field of medical staff services and quality management, focusing on management and consulting with expertise in credentialing, medical staff privileging, quality management, medical staff organization, and JCAHO accreditation standards. Softbound book Size: 11" x 8.5" ISBN 1578394902 HCPro / Opus October 2004 2 Nursing Contact Hours Price: $59.00   JCAHO's National Patient Safety Goals are critical to survey success. With this resource, you can keep patients safe and prepare your nurses for survey day. With more than 17 years of experience, HCPro, Inc. is a leading provider of integrated information, education, training, and consulting products and services in the vital areas of healthcare regulation and compliance. The company's mission is to meet the specialized informational, advisory, and educational needs of the healthcare industry. As an acknowledged industry authority in healthcare regulation and compliance, HCPro focuses on providing its expertise in the areas of accreditation, medical staff affairs, credentialing, privileging, medical record management, regulatory compliance, nursing, quality/patient safety, infection control, and workplace safety. 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