Risk Factors
The MORSE scale determines.
What is a patients' risk factor for falls?
These devices alert nurses when patients are getting up.
What are bed or chair alarms?
The frequency of Rounding occurs
What is hourly?
This piece of technology helps patients communicate their needs.
What is the Call light?
This is your unit Falls Champion
Who is Leanne
These provided garments help indicate a patient's risk factor for falls.
What are Red Slippers?
This monitoring system, which is placed at the bedside, provides continuous eyes on the patient.
What is a VPM or AVASure telemonitoring system?
These 2 P's provide an opportunity to ask a patient about their comfort.
What is Pain and Positioning?
It is a communication tool located in each patient room that displays who their nurses are.
What are The White boards?
This is where you can find your units information on falls.
What is the unit update board located by front desk or within our electronic unit data reports?
If a patient has had this, they will be at continuous risk for falls.
What is a History of Falls?
This evidence-base intervention, when performed hourly, helps prevent falls by assuring all needs are met.
What is patient rounding also referred to hourly rounding, independent rounding, and shift rounding?
The P in this word should be asked hourly to assure a patients bathroom needs are met.
What is Potty?
This is where you would find the patients' individualized goals for fall prevention.
What is in the patients Fall care plan?
This is the number of falls that occurred in all of 2022 on your unit.
What is 25?
These different apparatuses help improve mobility when ambulating.
What are assistive devices? (cane, walker, GB)
This tool, when performed properly, helps evaluate and assess a patient's mobility deficits.
What is CMET?
This P represents a plethora of items that are necessary throughout every shift and should be within arms reach of the patient.
What is possessions?
Who do you communicate the plan of care for fall prevention with.
The patient and family along with all team members
This is the number of falls that occurred in quarters 1 and quarter 2 of 2023 on your unit.
What is 6?
These not only can impair judgement but impact balance as well.
What are pain medications? (narcotics)
Effective communication with these team members assures that patient's safety is a priority with ADL's.
Who are certified nursing assistants, and some may add occupational and physical therapy?
This P represents the individualized goals for safety and should be transparent to all team members, including patient and family members.
What is Plan?
These services, available to all aurora nurses, assure communication avenues are available to most all cultural populations.
What is the video or computer interpretive services. (Language line solutions)
This percentile indicates your unit has met the benchmark on falls.
What is the 75th percentile?