Falls with Injury
This assessment tool should be used to assess all adult inpatients for their risk of fall during hospitalization.
What is Hester Davis?
The urinary catheter tubing should be secured to this part of the body.
What is the leg?
Stage 1 pressure injuries are characterized by this skin finding?
What is non-blanchable erythema?
Commonly considered a balancing measure to length of stay, we might expect this to rise slightly as length of stay decreases, but this actually a myth unless the LOS is pushed well below the mean for that particular DRG.
What is readmission rate?
What Does IRF-PAI stand for?
What is Inpatient Rehabilitation Facility, Patient Assessment Instrument?
Keeping this device within reach at all times is one strategy to limit falls.
What is a call bell?
This patient care activity should be performed at minimum twice daily on all patients who have a urinary catheter.
What is perineal care?
Patients should be repositioned at this frequency to reduce pressure injury risk
What is 2 hours?
This program works with patients who are frequently admitted to help ensure better health status through additional support in the outpatient setting.
What is the multi-visit patient (MVP) program?
What is the IRF-PAI used for?
What is: use to collect patient assessment data for quality measure calculation and payment determination.
Proactively encouraging and supporting this behavior on a regular basis can help to reduce falls.
What is toileting?
This is the term to describe the colonization of bacteria in the urine which occurs in 100% of patients with a catheter in place for 30 days.
What is asymptomatic bacteriuria?
Pressure injuries that occur during an admission that are stage 2, 3, or unstageable require this type of patient safety meeting.
What is RCA (root cause analysis)?
The lack of this resource in Vermont is likely the most significant factor increasing length of stay for our patients?
What is long term care placement?
Who needs to complete the IRF_PAI?
Who are MD, Therapies and Nursing.
A repeat MD assessment should occur within this time period after the initial evaluation for a patient post-fall.
What is 4 hours?
This is the most important risk factor for developing CAUTI.
What is duration of catheter use?
This device should be used to take pictures of a patient’s skin to help facilitate a consult from the wound care nurse/team.
What is a Rover?
Hospital mortality, readmission and length of stay are the most commonly used of these measures.
What are Quality Indicators for Medical Centers?
What is the assessment period for when the ERF- PAI be completed?
What is the day of admission and the following 2 days - so within 72 hours.
What piece of equipment should be evaluated at change of shift and during hourly rounds to make certain that alarms are in use to reduce patient falls.
What is a Stryker Bed or High/Low bed
This device can be used on a female patient in place of an indwelling urinary catheter to prevent a CAUTI.
What is a Purwick?
This assessment tool should be used to assess all adult inpatients for their risk of developing a pressure injury during hospitalization.
What is the Braden Scale?
Significant improvement in this process will impact the organization's LOS metric.
What is discharge?
Why is this data collected and where is it sent to.
Data is collected and submitted to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services for reimbursement for the maximum care given to the patient.