FALL MANAGEMENT EDUCATION
WEBINARS
Webinar Video: Technology Solutions to Prevent Falls in the ER with Dr. Patricia Quigley (60 minutes)
Emergency departments (ED) are often the primary point of entry for older patients who fall. Every 11 seconds, an older person visits the ED due to a fall (National Council on Aging, 2021). Falls cause of 90% of emergency department visits among people aged 65 years and older (CDC, 2021) and account for 17% of all 911 calls.
Webinar Video: A Guide to Analyzing Falls and Prevention with Dr. Patricia Quigley (60 minutes)
Sufficient evidence confirms that exercise, safe mobility, assessment, integration of technology, and mitigation of fall risk factors will reduce the risk for falls and harm across all settings of care.
Webinar Video: Position Sensory Alarms – Patient Restraint and Safety Insight with Dr. Patricia Quigley (17 minutes)
Incorrect interpretation of CMS guidelines in long-term care facilities have resulted in the removal of position sensor alarms leaving vulnerable residents at risk after a fall has occurred and they cannot call for help. This is a clarification of the CMS guidelines and the importance of including position sensory alarms into your fall prevention toolkit.
Webinar Video: Leveraging Technology to Customize Your Fall Prevention Program presented by Dr. Patricia Quigley (60 minutes)
Go beyond universal fall precautions and embrace innovation. Apply new strategies and thinking to protect your patients by incorporating technology and individualized patient assessments in fall and injury reduction practices.
Webinar Video: Best Practices for Patient Toileting presented by Dr. Patricia Quigley (63 minutes)
This is an examination of patient falls associated with the toileting. We expose the risk factors the patient face as they navigate from the bed to the toileting area and explore strategies for scheduled and assisted toileting while creating an ideal environment for safe toileting.
Webinar Video: Strategies to Maximize Safe and Assisted Bed Exits (61 minutes)
PRESENTATIONS
Powerpoint: A Guide to Analyzing Falls and Prevention
The presentation from the “TEchnology Solutions to Prevent Falls in the ER” webinar above.
Powerpoint: A Guide to Analyzing Falls and Prevention
The presentation from the “A Guide to Analyzing Falls and Prevention” webinar above.
Powerpoint: Best Practices for Patient Toileting Presentation
The presentation from the “Best Practices for Patient Toileting” webinar above.
Powerpoint: Strategies to Maximize Safe and Assisted Bed Exits
The presentation from the “Strategies to Maximize Safe and Assisted Bed Exits” webinar above.
BLOG POSTS
The Use of Bed Safety Rails
A Brochure Resource for You Dear Colleagues, I am always delighted to receive questions about fall prevention practices, resources, and even opinions. My commitment has been and will always be to help you as much as I can. Of interest, every couple of months, I...
Build Your Fall and Fall Injury Prevention Program Capacity: Program Assessment
Dear Colleagues, All organizations commit to create and implement valid, reliable and quality clinical care programs that assure safe patient care that protects while improving outcomes: function, health, and well-being. Among all the clinical programs implemented in...
Let’s Campaign for September’s National Fall Awareness Week
Introducing CDC’s Still Going Strong Program and More! Colleagues, we commit to fall prevention of at-risk and vulnerable populations across all settings of care. Through our practice, we are dedicated to promoting function and independence, minimizing complications...
Let’s Expand Your Access to a Behavioral Health Toolkit for Fall Prevention
Minnesota Hospital Association ResourcesSafe from Falls RoadmapsSpecial Focus: Behavioral Health Units Over the last year, the unexpected and unprecedented impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has generated our resiliency and resolve to strengthen prevention, protection...
The Same Chair Does Not Work For All Patients
Dear Colleagues, I welcome lots of questions from a variety of individuals seeking suggestions for fall and fall injury prevention interventions. Sometimes the messages are to run an idea by me to seek my opinion, like this request from a hospital trying to solve the...
Protect Your Patients From Injury
Floor Mats Do Reduce Impact Severity: They Work! Colleagues, Protecting patients from injury when they falls requires different interventions than preventing them from a fall. The main intervention to reduce impact when patients fall from be is the Floor Mat...
Bed Height Must Be Individualized
Low Bed Height is NOT a Universal Fall Precaution Colleagues, I hope that my inaugural resource message last month to re-evaluate your bathroom grab bar placement was helpful to you. I also hope that you shared the research and evidence to your Falls Committee...
Creating a Safe Environment for Toileting
Proper Grab Bar Placement in Bathrooms Reduces Falls Colleagues, I am delighted to launch this first informational message to you on behalf of Curbell Medical, Inc., designed to provide you with fall and fall injury prevention resources. The resources that I am...
7 Fall Management Precautions Every Nurse Should Take
As designers and manufacturers of innovative medical communication technologies, Curbell understands both the challenges and critical importance of communication between caregivers and patients. Lack of communication can lead to a range of potentially fatal hazards....
Why Patients Fall
How many times have patients disregarded caregiver instructions and refused to request assistance when attempting to leave their hospital beds? How many times have caregivers and the family members of patients struggled with this refusal? Even those patients presumed...