FALL PREVENTION

Fall Prevention and Management for the Home Health worker and client (2) credit hours

COURSE DESCRIPTION

This two hour fall prevention presentation will meet the requirements for continuing education for professional licensure. An overview of the course will provide the basic concepts of the reasons patients fall, the why and how, and other multiple causes that lead to falls. It will also include frequent references to falls and the pathology surrounding the fall, the after math of that fall, family concerns and prevention of those concerns. An overview of the different scenario’s and types of persons predisposed to falls, treatments of the initial fall, complications and physiological considerations, along with subjected fall safe methods to prevent falls and trips are discussed. Finally, the psychological impact of falls and the need for hospice are reviewed in this overview.
 

COURSE REQUIREMENTS

Satisfactory completion of this fall prevention review course will earn the participant two (2) contact hours. The participant must successfully pass the post course written examination with a minimum score of 80% and complete the course examination and Quality Assurance Evaluation form. A course completion certificate will be issued after all course completion requirements are met.

COURSE OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this program, the participant will be able to:

Indicate statistical and common sense reason for falls.

Define the HHA-CNA-Nurses reaction to a fall.

Specify the common situations that a person may fall.

List the primary reasons for falls and their possible complications.    

Specify the role of the HHA-CNA-Nurse in preventing and early notice of falls.

Identify risk factors in the family’s role and their concerns.

Specify the role of the patient in self awareness and training procedures that the patient should go through so that they are aware of the fall situations.

List three (3) of the most common reasons for a person to fall.

Describe the various injuries that result in a fall.

Describe the role of confidentiality in a fall situation.

List the goals of the techs/staff in the management of clinical management of falls.

Define universal precautions and describe various applications of prevention of falls.

Describe the role of education in preventing trips and falls.