Interventions
An appropriate intervention for when someone falls frequently going to the bathroom.
What is a toileting program or toileting schedule?
UTI's, fevers, sepsis.
What are infections that may contribute to falls?
The 4 P's of purposeful rounding.
What are pain, personal hygiene, positioning, and personal belongings.
When a fall must be reported.
What is immediately?
Clutter is an example of this.
What is a fall risk?
These are three ways that I can help prevent falls.
What is, activities, purposeful rounding, anticipating needs, appropriate lighting, the correct socks/shoes, toileting programs, minimized clutter?
Spills that are promptly cleaned up.
What is not a fall risk?
Purposeful rounding always begins with this.
What is a greeting?
What you do when you find a resident who has fallen?
What is call for help?
True or False. Lowering someone to the floor is not considered a fall.
What is False?
Acceptable types of socks for our fall risk residents.
What are nonslip/nonskid socks?
Increased agitation and wandering late in the afternoon and evening.
What is sundowning?
True or False. Minimizing room clutter is part of purposeful rounding.
What is True?
True or false. You must get a person who has fallen up and into bed immediately.
What is false?
Sliding out of a chair accidentally when noone is around.
What is an unwitnessed fall.
Activities that are used to focus a high fall risk residents attention.
What are diversional activities?
An altered state of consciousness characterized by confusion, disorientation, and disturbances in attention and awareness.
What is delirium?
Two goals of purposeful rounding.
What is preventing falls, improving resident satisfaction, reducing call lights, reducing caregiver fatigue?
These values are obtained prior to moving a resident.
What are vital signs?
A bumped head during a fall.
What is a fall with a head injury?
A technique used to reduce falls before and after meals.
What is toileting?
A condition affecting memory, thinking and social abilities. The symptoms interfere with a person's daily life.
What is dementia?
The last step in purposeful rounding.
What is asking the resident if there is anything else that you can do for them?
The device used to get a resident up off the floor.
What is a hoyer/mechanical lift?
Falling outside with a witness.
What is a witnessed fall?