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To The Rescue
Prevention Strategies
Hazards
Tools
Patient Education
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1200 is the magic number.
What do you dial when there is a Fall?
100
Yellow armband, star on patient door, SBAR report.
What alerts other staff members patient is a Fall Risk?
100
Loose flooring, spills, cords stretched across a floor, wet floor mats.
What are cases of patient falls?
100
The gray dispenser hanging on the wall throughout the 1st floor with paper towels in it.
What is a Spill Station?
100
A way of ensuring a patient and family understand why precautions are important.
What is Fall Prevention Education?
200
I am announced when there is a fall.
What is a Code Star?
200
On admit, every shift, change in patient condition, and change in nurse staff.
When do you perform a fall assessment?
200
Impaired mobility, frequent elimination, visual impairment
What are Physical Risk Factors for falls?
200
Securely placed around the patient's waist to walk them to the bathroom.
What is a Gait Belt?
200
A way to contact the nurse for help is placed where I can reach t and know how to use.
What is a Call Bell?
300
I am called to a visitor fall and investigate the event.
Who is Security?
300
When rounding in patient care area, I look to see what may cause them harm.
What is a Safety Surveillance?
300
A frozen or wet sidewalk or steps.
What are environmental Visitor or Associate Risk of Falls?
300
A noise the patient or family will hear when the patient gets up.
What is a bed or chair alarm?
400
I am the one to report a slip, trip, or fall.
Who am I?
400
Placed on the floor where EVS has mopped or where there is a spill.
What is a wet floor sign?
400
Stryker bed or posey alarm, gait belt, walker, non-skid socks, locked bed.
What are examples of tools to prevent patient falls?
400
I ask the patient to place both hands on the handle and walk close to it while walking down the hall.
What is a Walker?
500
House Supervisor/Manager, Physical Therapy, Plant Operations, Security, Physician, Pharmacy.
Who is the multidisciplinary Fall Response Team?
500
Hospital strategies that improve keeping patients, associates and visitors safe.
What is a Culture of Safety?
500
Psychotropics, hypnotics, tranquilizers, anti-convulsants, and antihypertensive.
What are medications that may lead to falls?
500
In Meditech, used to assess risk of falls.
What is the Mores Scale?
500
I instruct the patient to lead up with stronger leg and lead down with their weaker leg.
What is Step Training?