Your comprehensive falls prevention and risk management kit has arrived.
With as many as 75% percent of nursing home residents falling each year, falls are a concern no long-term care facility can afford to ignore. Falls directly impact residents' quality of life, and a fall-related lawsuit could cripple a facility. Until now, fall risk management-which includes assessment, prevention, and response—has not been available in a comprehensive program. Resident Falls: A Guide to Prevention, Assessment, and Response, a manual and CD-ROM set, is the ONLY comprehensive fall-related training and risk management program for long-term care providers.
With this comprehensive training tool, you will learn the most critical falls-related concepts, such as how to:
- Implement a comprehensive fall prevention program
- Teach frontline staff how to properly respond to and document resident falls
- Develop an effective risk monitoring system
- Identify medical conditions and medications that increase a resident's fall risk
- Track and trend your residents' falls
- Reduce liability risk
Includes a Customizable Tool!
The CD-ROM that comes with Resident Falls: A Guide to Prevention, Assessment, and Response provides a complete inservice to train your entire staff! This time-saving feature covers:
- Maintaining a safe environment that reduces the risk of falls
- Fall prevention strategies, such as strength and endurance conditioning, exercise, physical therapy, gait training, and walking
- How to respond when a resident falls
- Identification of risk factors such as underlying medical conditions and medications
The CD-ROM also includes a number of modifiable forms that will help your facility effectively document, track, and respond to resident falls and resultant injuries.
This comprehensive resource will help reduce the liability risk of falls in your facility. It is the second resource in the Long-Term Care Risk Management series, which also includes Pressure Ulcers: A Prevention, Assessment, and Treatment Training Guide.
ABOUT THE AUTHORS:
Carole Eldridge, MSN, RN, CNAA, BC, is a nationally-known educator and author in the field of long-term care. She 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. A former instructor in a university school of nursing and an approved provider of continuing education for nurses, Eldridge speaks often to industry and community groups on staff development and training, employee retention, career ladder programs, and healthcare administration.
Sandra Petersen, MSN, RN, CLNC, is one of the long term care industry's experts on risk and quality management issues. She is the Senior Vice President of Quality and Clinical Services for Assisted Living Concepts, Inc., overseeing a successful quality and risk management program in close to 200 residences, nationwide. As a Certified Legal Nurse Consultant and expert geriatric clinician, Petersen is frequently consulted by the legal community regarding risk issues in the long term care environment and has served as an adjunct professor of nursing for both East Texas Baptist College and the University of Texas at Tyler in East Texas. She currently serves as a member of the Assisted Living Federation of America's (ALFA) Government Relations and Education Committees, working closely with providers, state affiliates, regulators, and legislators regarding quality and risk and concerns. Petersen is frequently sought as a lecturer on a wide range of clinical, legal, risk and quality management issues.
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