Falls Toolkit

Falls Toolkit

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HOW TO PLAY FALLS TOOLKIT HOW TO PLAY FALLS TOOLKIT JEOPARDYJEOPARDY

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Background for 100

Background for 100

The most common adverse event in the VHA, and can lead to fractures, traumatic brain

injuries and premature death.

What is a Fall? QUESTION B

OARDQUESTION BOARD

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The leading cause of death due to injury for those 65 years of

age and older.

What is aFall? QUESTION B

OARDQUESTION BOARD

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Background for 300

DOUBLE JEOPARDYDOUBLE JEOPARDY$33,000

What is the average cost of a

fall in the VA? QUESTION BOARDQUESTION BOARD

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Background for 400

Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors

What are the two categories of risk factors for falls? QUESTION B

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Background for 500

Fall risk factors that are related to a person’s

physiological condition.

What are intrinsic factors?

QUESTION BOARD

What are extrinsic factors?

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Background for 600

Fall risk factors that are related to the physical

environment.

QUESTION BOARD

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Background for 700

Fall risk factors that can be addressed before the

patient falls.

What are anticipated fall risk factors?

QUESTION BOARD

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Background for 800

Fall risk factors that cannot necessarily be addressed before a

patient falls.

What are unanticipated fall risk factors. QUESTION B

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Background for 900Background for 900JCAHO limits these to “emergencies

in which there is an imminent risk of a patient physically harming

himself or herself, staff, or others, and nonphysical interventions

would not be effective.” Therefore these are not appropriate

measures for fall prevention.

What are restraints? QUESTION B

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Background for 1000Background for 1000

A fracture of the Femur near the Greater

Trochanter.

What is a hip fracture?

QUESTION BOARD

Notebook for 100Notebook for 100This part of the falls toolkit

contains the bulk of the information on developing and measuring the success

of a falls prevention program

What is the Falls Toolkit Notebook?

QUESTION BOARD

Notebook for 200Notebook for 200

This section of the notebook explains how to use the

toolkit and provides ideas on educational packets for staff.

What is the Instructions

section? QUESTION BOARD


Contains information on implementing an

interdisciplinary falls team.

What is the Falls Team section? QUESTION B

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Contains information on developing a falls

prevention policy and an example policy.

What is the Falls Policy section? QUESTION B

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Notebook for 500 Notebook for 500 Ideas on creating a safe environment, preventing

injury to patients and individualizing prevention strategies are provided in

this section.

What is the What is the Interventions Interventions

section?section?

QUESTION BOARD

Notebook for 600 Notebook for 600

Provides tools for showing a reduction in falls and

fall related injury.

What is the Measuring Success

section?QUESTION BOARD

Notebook for 700 Notebook for 700 Contains an annotated

bibliography and quick facts of articles relating to falls and

injury prevention. The articles are arranged by topic.

What is the Resources section?

QUESTION BOARD


Provides supplemental materials for each of the

videos in the toolkit.

What are the Video sections?

QUESTION BOARD


The high fall-risk room set up is explained in this

section.

What is the Interventions

section?QUESTION BOARD

Notebook for 1000 Notebook for 1000 To find information on

calculating fall rates and developing graphs to show improvement look in this

section.

What is the Measuring

Success section?QUESTION B

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Media Box for 100Media Box for 100

This part of the Falls Toolkit contains sample posters,

buttons and educational videos.

What is the Falls Toolkit Media Box? QUESTION B

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There are 5 examples of each design in the media box. They

are for identifying fall resources on units or shifts.

What are the buttons?QUESTION BOARD


This flier, in the media box, provides patients with

information on the risk of falls.

What is the flier “Are you or a loved one at risk

for falls?” QUESTION BOARD


There is one of these, which contains 3

vignettes.

What is the video tape?

QUESTION BOARD


Each vignette is on its own one of these.

What is a Video CD or VCD? QUESTION B

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There are two of these for patient education. One is about hip protectors, the

other is on conducting a home environmental assessment.

What are the pamphlets? QUESTION B

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Media Box for 700Media Box for 700This will raise awareness among staff about the key

elements to prevent patient falls and fall related injuries.

What is the “Preventing Falls and Fall Related

Injuries” poster?QUESTION BOARD

Media Box for 800Media Box for 800This test for fall risk is explained in a flier for

primary care providers.

What is the Timed Up & Go Test ? QUESTION B

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This cognitive aid for nurses performing the Morse Fall Risk Assessment is located

in the media box.

What is the Morse Fall Risk

Assessment Pocket Card?

QUESTION BOARD


This has electronic versions of everything in

the media box.

What is the Falls Toolkit CD-ROM or

Website?QUESTION BOARD

It is found on vaww.ncps.med.va.gov/fallstoolk

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www.patientsafety.gov/fallstoolkit

Where is the Falls Toolkit

website?

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The CD-ROM found in the toolkit contains the initial

version.

What is the Falls Toolkit website?

QUESTION BOARD


Home, Getting Started, Falls Notebook, Media Tools,

Resources and Contact Us

What are the six main pages of the Falls Toolkit website? QUESTION B

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This section of the website contains electronic versions

of everything in the Falls Toolkit Notebook.

What is the Falls Notebook section? QUESTION B

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This section contains information that is not

printed in the notebook.

What is the Resources Section?

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This page contains tools for calculating fall rates, educating

patients and staff and fall related websites.

What is the Resources page?

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Spread documents from the NCPS Falls Collaborative are located on this page.

What is the Resources

page?

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This will occur annually.

How often will the website be updated?

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This guide provides resources for educating patients and staff on falls prevention.

What is the Educational

Resource Guide?QUESTION BOARD


Email addresses for specific staff at NCPS and the main phone number for NCPS.

What is on the Contact Us page?

QUESTION BOARD

Videos for 100Videos for 100

“Performing a Balance Assessment”

“Hip Protectors in an Inpatient Setting”

“Protecting Your Hips with Hip Protectors”

What are the three videos included in the Falls Toolkit?

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This video is designed specifically for educating

patients.

What is “Protecting Your Hips with Hip Protectors”?



This video is for educating nursing staff on the use of

hip protectors as part of a fall prevention program.

What is “Hip Protectors in an

Inpatient Setting”?QUESTION QUESTION

BOARDBOARD


This video is designed for Rehabilitation Therapists ONLY.

What is “Performing a

Balance Assessment”?



The Falls Toolkit Media Box

Where are the videos located?



Video CD and VHS

What format are the videos in?



DOUBLE JEOPARDYDOUBLE JEOPARDY

There is a dangerous maneuver that should only be performed by a rehabilitation therapist.

Why is the “Performing a Balance Assessment” video for Rehabilitation Therapists ONLY?



The materials relating to the videos are located in their

respective sections of this part of the falls toolkit.

What is the Falls Toolkit Notebook? QUESTION QUESTION

BOARDBOARD


This video should be used to educate patients when providing

them with hip protectors.

What is “Protecting Your Hips with Hip Protectors”?



This format of the videos can be viewed on any computer that has Widows Media Player or a

similar program.

What is a Video CD or VCD?


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Completed the Falls Toolkit Jeopardy training.

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