Effective Falls Management Strategies
DATE: 04/01/2013 |
SPEAKER: Steven C. Castle, MD, Professor of Medicine, UCLA, Clinical Director Geriatrics, VA Greater LA, Corporate Medical Director, The Be. Group, CEO, President, DrBalance, Inc. |
LENGTH: 45 Minutes |
Target Audience
Executive teams, corporate and campus risk managers, human resource personnel, administrators, medical directors, PCPs, directors of nursing, quality representatives, and QAPI committee members
Learning Objectives
- Discuss the causes of balance changes
- Describe the physiologic systems of balance
- Explain how nursing processes and QAPI can address falls
- Explore tools and nursing protocols to help reduce falls
- Discuss reporting fall events to families
- Describe tips for dementia and falls
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