Fall Prevention: Bed Safety
Objectives
Upon completion of this course participants will be able to:
- Identify reasons for bed falls.
- Discuss strategies to reduce the risk of bed falls and injury.
- Describe devices used to guard against bed falls and injury.
- State the importance of a bed mobility assessment.
- Recognize environmental factors contributing to bed falls and strategies aimed at modifying unsafe conditions.
Curriculum
Chapter 1: Introduction
- Risk Factors for Bed-Related Falls
- Causes of Bed-Related Falls and Injury
Chapter 2: Steps in Reducing Bed-Related Falls
- Assessment
- Performance-Based Bed Mobility Screen
- Communicating Fall Risk
- Post-Fall Bed Assessment
Chapter 3: Strategies to Reduce Bed Falls
- Medical Interventions
- Rehabilitative Interventions
- Nursing Interventions
Chapter 4: Environmental Strategies
- Beds
- Floor Surfaces
- Lighting
- Bed Safety Checklist
Chapter 5: Strategies to Reduce Falls and Injury
- Bed Side Rails
- Side Rail Risk Assessment
- Nurse Call Bells
- Sitters
- Cushioned Floor Mats
- Hip Pads
- Helmets
- Fixed and Adjustable Low Beds
- Body Pillows
- Fall Alarms
- Ineffective Fall Alarms
- Strategies for Improving the Effectiveness of Fall Alarms
- Bed Safety Checklist
Chapter 6: Follow Up/Monitoring
- Environment
- Meeting Basic Needs
- Daily Monitoring of Fall Risk
Chapter 7: Bed Safety Audits
- Audit Process
Chapter 8: Achieving Success with Bed Safety
- Adhere to a Clinical Process
- Provide Education
- Establish a Multidisciplinary Committee
- Ensure Administrative Support
- California Bill 241
- Implicit Bias in Healthcare
- What is Implicit Bias?
- Implications of Implicit Bias in Healthcare
- How to Reduce Implicit Bias
Price: $10.00
Contact Hour: 1
Course Author
Rein Tideiksaar
Rein Tideiksaar, PhD, PA-C, or Dr. Rein as he is commonly referred to, is the president of Fall Prevent, LLC, Blackwood, New Jersey, a consulting company that provides educational, legal, and marketing services related to fall prevention in the elderly.
Dr. Tideiksaar is a gerontologist, which is a health care professional who specializes in working with elderly patients, and a geriatric physician's assistant. He has been active in the area of fall prevention for over thirty years.