Managing Fall Risk in Long Term Care Facilities
Product Description:
AUDIOCONFERENCE ON CD OR AUDIO ARCHIVE
Sponsored by The Long-Term Care Legal Desk Referencepresented on February 27, 2008
Implement a falls management flash prevention plan for EVERYONE in your long-term care facility!
The recent revision to CMS’ F-tag #323 has put falls prevention and risk management in the regulatory spotlight. To effectively manage fall risk and prevent CMS citations you need a falls prevention plan for everyone in your organization.
Take a proactive approach to falls prevention and risk management!
Listen to HCPro's 90-minute audioconference Managing Fall Risk in Long Term Care Facilities: Response and assessment techniques. Expert Leah Klusch offers sound advice to create or maintain a comprehensive risk management program. She’ll even offer simple strategies to track and trend falls-related data, beyond what is on the MDS.
Bring your current risk management program and compare it to the tips and advice provided in the program.
At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:
- Identify the importance of an interdisciplinary falls management program
- Recognize non-modifiable intrinsic and modifiable fall risk factors
- Construct falls risk assessments for their facility
- Construct falls management for special populations within their facility
- Identify strategies for tracking data and trends
TAKE A LOOK AT OUR AGENDA
- Falls management as related to overall risk management in operations
- Falls risk assessment
- Regulatory compliance
- Global falls management process
- Identify high risk residents
- Level on standardized risk assessment scale
- Focus on everyone for falls management
- Dimensions of falls risk assessment
- Environmental issues
- Clinical issues
- Components of a falls risk assessment
- Tracking and trends in falls data
- Prevent falls of the cognitively impaired
- Q&A
MEET THE SPEAKERS
Leah Klusch, RN, BSN, is the founder and executive director of The Alliance Training Center in Alliance, OH. She has over 40 years of experience in the healthcare field. She currently lectures on a state and regional basis on issues relating to care delivery, regulatory compliancy, reengineering, management, documentation, wellness, restorative care giving, assessment, and assessment documents. Prior to her work at The Alliance Training Center, Klusch also created and taught various education programs for long term care professionals and nurses. She started her career as the director of nursing at a nursing home in Heath, Ohio. Klusch graduated with a bachelor in nursing from Capital University.
WHO SHOULD LISTEN?
Nursing home administrators, directors of nursing, nurse managers, clinical managers, therapy managers, interdisciplinary team members, social services, compliance officials, risk management managers, assisted living managers
BONUS TOOLS INCLUDED IN YOUR MATERIALS PACKET
In addition to the expertise and advice presented during this audioconference, you'll also receive these helpful “take-aways” provided within your materials pack:
- List of clinical coordinators
- Falls risk assessment document
- Activities document
These materials are provided with PDF links.
Purchase a CD or audio archive of the program and listen when you can. It's also a perfect training tool for new staff or as a refresher for veteran staff.
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