Patient Falls

Live Webcast

Sponsored by: Patient Safety Monitor

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

1:00-2:30 p.m. (Eastern)
12:00-1:30 p.m. (Central)
11:00-12:30 p.m. (Mountain)
10:00-11:30 a.m. (Pacific)

Crucial steps for a simple, compliant process

Join our expert speakers as they demonstrate how to survive a survey and reduce patient falls by achieving administrative buy-in and increasing patient/family education. Former Joint Commission staffer Gayle Bielanski, RN, BS, CPHQ, will provide perspective on what can get you cited. Clinical expert Courtney Kaylor, MSN, RN, MHA, CEN, CCRN, will reveal how her facility responded to an RFI for patient falls, and how it reduced incidence by nearly 50% in less than one year.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the conclusion of this Webcast, you will be able to:

• Identify Joint Commission and CMS patient falls regulations
• Assess steps to avoid frequent Joint Commission and CMS patient falls citations and pitfalls
• Evaluate Upstate Carolina Medical Center’s patient falls initiative
• Identify best practices for assessing a patient's fall risk
• Describe the steps necessary to document a falls risk assessment
• Identify practical applications for compliance with Joint Commission standards with the issues presented in the case study

TAKE A LOOK AT THE AGENDA

• Joint Commission and CMS regulations
• Frequent citations and pitfalls
  • Failure to assess patient
  • Failure to implement interventions
  • Failure to analyze program
• Upstate Carolina Medical Center’s patient falls initiative
  • Conditions that led to receiving a 2008 Joint Commission RFI
    • Daily assessment failure
    • High risk fall identification
  • Steps taken to correct process deficiencies
    • Multi-disciplinary team
    • Fall prevention program: Evaluation of the old and building the new
      • Fall risk assessment (Fall Scale)/Documentation
      • Interventions for preventing falls
      • Patient/family fall education
      • Analysis of patient falls
  • The journey from an RFI to best practice
    • Airway, breathing, circulation, fall prevention - communicating the importance
    • Staff education
    • Ongoing assessment
    • Re-evaluating the route
  • Maintaining a culture that will prevent future citations
    • Result analysis
    • Consistent practice
    • Constant re-evaluation
• Question and answer session

CONTINUING EDUCATION

Nursing Contact Hours (ANCC)
HCPro, Inc. is accredited as a provider of continuing nursing education by the American Nurses Credentialing Center Commission on Accreditation.

This educational activity for 1.5 nursing contact hours is provided by HCPro, Inc.

National Association for Healthcare Quality (NAHQ)
This activity has been approved by the National Association of Healthcare Quality for 1.5 CPHQ CE credits.
VALID FOR LIVE EVENT ONLY

BONUS TOOLS

With this webcast, you'll receive a slide presentation of the program materials and valuable takeaways, which you can use at your facility, including:

• Falls analysis tool
• Sample nursing documentation form
• Patient and family education tool

MEET THE SPEAKERS

Courtney Kaylor, MSN, RN, MHA, CEN, CCRN, chief nursing officer, Upstate Carolina Medical Center (Gaffney, SC). Kaylor has served as the Director of Quality and Education and Upstate Carolina. Her clinical experience includes emergency department, flight nursing, and surgical-trauma intensive care. Kaylor has also served in education and assistant nurse manager roles in the areas of emergency department and surgical-trauma intensive care.

Gayle Bielanski, RN, BS, CPHQ, consultant, the Greeley Company (Marblehead, MA). Bielanski specializes in quality, accreditation, and case management. She brings more than 20 years of experience in quality, Joint Commission, CMS, accreditation, and regulatory compliance. Bielanski helps prepare organizations for accreditation and regulatory compliance.

WHO SHOULD LISTEN?

Patient safety officer, risk manager, nurse manager, quality improvement director, staff nurse.

WEBCAST ON-DEMAND

Nurse managers, CNOs/VPs of patient care, directors of nursing, quality improvement/performance improvement directors, patient safety directors, risk managers, and infection control professionals, staff nurses, and staff development specialists

WEBCAST SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS AND PROGRAM MATERIALS

To fully benefit from the Webcast experience, please note you will need a computer equipped with a Broadband Internet connection, a sound card, and speakers or headphones. Macromedia Flash player Version 8.0 or greater, a recommended screen resolution of 1024 x 768, and an Internet Browser (e.g. Internet Explorer). The use of AOL or wireless Internet connections is not recommended. Four days prior to the Webcast, you will receive an e-mail with detailed system requirements, your log-in information, presentation slides, and other materials that you can print and distribute to all attendees at your location.

PLEASE NOTE

Participation in the Webcast is just $259 per site. All materials must be retrieved from the Internet. Live orders are assessed a $5 processing fee.

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