These webinars are intended to supplement the Fall Prevention Program in-person training. Participants should view these webinars outside of the in-person training.
Training Webinars
It is strongly recommended that participants view the following training webinars during the Training Phase.
Staff Roles and Training for Your Fall Prevention Program
- Presented by Cait Walsh, RN, M.S.N.
- This webinar tells how to assign staff roles and train staff for your fall prevention program.
Using Fall Risk Assessment Tools in Care Planning
- Presented by Patricia C. Dykes, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, FACMI
- This webinar tells how to use fall risk assessment tools in care planning.
Measuring Fall and Fall-Related Injury Rates and Prevention Practices
- Presented by Julia Neily, RN, M.S., M.P.H.
- This webinar tells how to measure fall and fall-related injury rates and prevention practices.
Sustaining Fall Prevention Practices at Your Hospital
- Presented by Pat Quigley, Ph.D., M.P.H., ARNP, CRRN, FAAN, FAA, NP
- This webinar tells how to sustain fall prevention practices at your hospital.
Learning Network Webinars
The following Learning Network webinars are intended for use by relevant staff on an as-needed basis.
Post-Fall Huddles
- Presented by Julia Neily, RN, M.S., M.P.H.
- This webinar tells how to implement post-fall huddles, use data from post-fall huddles to reduce falls and fall-related injuries, and how to apply formative and summative evaluation methods to post-fall huddle evaluation.
- Presented by Pat Quigley, Ph.D., M.P.H., ARNP, CRRN, FAAN, FAA, NP.
- This webinar discusses how to evaluate the level of evidence for making decisions on targeted interventions to use in a fall prevention program. The state of the science of several fall prevention strategies, such as bed alarms, surveillance strategies and rounding, protective equipment, prevention strategies for patients with mental/behavioral health disorders, and use of post fall huddle data is discussed.
Patient-Centered Fall Prevention Care Planning
- Presented by Patricia C. Dykes, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, FACMI.
- This webinar is a review of the evidence related to fall prevention care planning. Included is a discussion of the advantages of using EHRs for fall prevention care planning, the rationale for engaging patients in the 3-step fall prevention process, and a review of some tools for engaging patients in the 3-step fall prevention process.
Creating Control Charts To Interpret Fall Data
- Presented by Barbara Rebold, RN, B.S.N., M.S., CPHQ; Kelly O’Neill, RN, B.S.N., M.P.A., CPHQ; and Terry Hostert, Quality Improvement Specialist (McDonough District Hospital).
- This webinar introduces the use of control charts as a data tool to support quality improvement and describes how to create and use a control chart. An example hospital shares how it uses control charts.
Measurement: Using Data To Tell a Story
- Presented by Pat Quigley, Ph.D., M.P.H., ARNP, CRRN, FAAN, FAA, NP.
- This webinar describes core evaluation measures of fall and fall injury program components. Included is a discussion of how to use data to profile population and risk, data analysis for fall program evaluation, requirements for high reliability, and a framework for dissemination of program evaluation.
Sustainability
- Presented by Pat Posa, RN, B.S.N., M.S.A., FAAN.
- This webinar describes key elements of sustaining a prevention program successfully over time. It describes key components of sustainable change, as well as barriers to sustainability.
Critical Thinking for Fall Injury Prevention
- Presented by Cait Walsh, RN, M.S.N.; and Norma McNair, RN, Ph.D., ACNS-BC.
- This webinar focuses on how to incorporate critical thinking into staff education regarding falls and fall prevention. Teach-back methodology is also discussed for patient/family education about fall and fall injury risk and prevention.
DMAIC: A Deep Dive Into Reducing Patient Falls
- Presented by Susan Mascioli, RN, B.S.N., M.S., CPHQ, NEA-BC, LSSBB.
- This webinar portrays one hospital’s experience in implementing a successful fall prevention program; and reviews lessons learned using Lean Six Sigma (LSS) methodology. Successful fall prevention strategies are identified.
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