Falls Toolkit

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Falls Toolkit
JEOPARDY

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HOW TO PLAY FALLS TOOLKIT JEOPARDY

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Background for 100

• The most common adverse event in the VHA, and can
  lead to fractures, traumatic brain injuries and
  premature death.

What is a Fall?
QUESTION BOARD
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Background for 200

• The leading cause of death due to injury for
  those 65 years of age and older.

What is a Fall?
QUESTION BOARD
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Background for 300

• DOUBLE JEOPARDY
• 33,000

What is the average cost of a fall in the VA?
QUESTION BOARD
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Background for 400

• Intrinsic and Extrinsic Factors

What are the two categories of risk factors for
falls?
QUESTION BOARD
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Background for 500

• Fall risk factors that are related to a persons
  physiological condition.

QUESTION BOARD
What are intrinsic factors?
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Background for 600

• Fall risk factors that are related to the
  physical environment.

QUESTION BOARD
What are extrinsic factors?
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Background for 700

• Fall risk factors that can be addressed before
  the patient falls.

What are anticipated fall risk factors?
QUESTION BOARD
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Background for 800

• Fall risk factors that cannot necessarily be
  addressed before a patient falls.

QUESTION BOARD
What are unanticipated fall risk factors.
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Background for 900

• JCAHO limits these to emergencies in which there
  is an imminent risk of a patient physically
  harming himself or herself, staff, or others, and
  nonphysical interventions would not be
  effective. Therefore these are not appropriate
  measures for fall prevention.

What are restraints?
QUESTION BOARD
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Background for 1000

• A fracture of the Femur near the Greater
  Trochanter.

What is a hip fracture?
QUESTION BOARD
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Notebook for 100

• This part of the falls toolkit contains the bulk
  of the information on developing and measuring
  the success of a falls prevention program

What is the Falls Toolkit Notebook?
QUESTION BOARD
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Notebook for 200

• This section of the notebook explains how to use
  the toolkit and provides ideas on educational
  packets for staff.

What is the Instructions section?
QUESTION BOARD
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Notebook for 300

• Contains information on implementing an
  interdisciplinary falls team.

QUESTION BOARD
What is the Falls Team section?
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Notebook for 400

• Contains information on developing a falls
  prevention policy and an example policy.

QUESTION BOARD
What is the Falls Policy section?
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Notebook for 500

• Ideas on creating a safe environment, preventing
  injury to patients and individualizing prevention
  strategies are provided in this section.

QUESTION BOARD
What is the Interventions section?
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Notebook for 600

• Provides tools for showing a reduction in falls
  and fall related injury.

What is the Measuring Success section?
QUESTION BOARD
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Notebook for 700

• Contains an annotated bibliography and quick
  facts of articles relating to falls and injury
  prevention. The articles are arranged by topic.

What is the Resources section?
QUESTION BOARD
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Notebook for 800

• Provides supplemental materials for each of the
  videos in the toolkit.

What are the Video sections?
QUESTION BOARD
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Notebook for 900

• The high fall-risk room set up is explained in
  this section.

QUESTION BOARD
What is the Interventions section?
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Notebook for 1000

• To find information on calculating fall rates and
  developing graphs to show improvement look in
  this section.

What is the Measuring Success section?
QUESTION BOARD
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Media Box for 100

• This part of the Falls Toolkit contains sample
  posters, buttons and educational videos.

QUESTION BOARD
What is the Falls Toolkit Media Box?
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Media Box for 200

• There are 5 examples of each design in the media
  box. They are for identifying fall resources on
  units or shifts.

QUESTION BOARD
What are the buttons?
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Media Box for 300

• This flier, in the media box, provides patients
  with information on the risk of falls.

What is the flier Are you or a loved one at risk
for falls?
QUESTION BOARD
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Media Box for 400

• There is one of these, which contains 3 vignettes.

QUESTION BOARD
What is the video tape?
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Media Box for 500

• Each vignette is on its own one of these.

QUESTION BOARD
What is a Video CD or VCD?
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Media Box for 600

• There are two of these for patient education.
  One is about hip protectors, the other is on
  conducting a home environmental assessment.

QUESTION BOARD
What are the pamphlets?
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Media Box for 700

• This will raise awareness among staff about the
  key elements to prevent patient falls and fall
  related injuries.

What is the Preventing Falls and Fall Related
Injuries poster?
QUESTION BOARD
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Media Box for 800

• This test for fall risk is explained in a flier
  for primary care providers.

QUESTION BOARD
What is the Timed Up Go Test ?
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Media Box for 900

• This cognitive aid for nurses performing the
  Morse Fall Risk Assessment is located in the
  media box.

What is the Morse Fall Risk Assessment Pocket
Card?
QUESTION BOARD
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Media Box for 1000

• This has electronic versions of everything in the
  media box.

QUESTION BOARD
What is the Falls Toolkit CD-ROM or Website?
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Website for 100

• It is found on vaww.ncps.med.va.gov/fallstoolkit
• Or
• www.patientsafety.gov/fallstoolkit

Where is the Falls Toolkit website?
QUESTION BOARD
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Website for 200

• The CD-ROM found in the toolkit contains the
  initial version.

QUESTION BOARD
What is the Falls Toolkit website?
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Website for 300

• Home, Getting Started, Falls Notebook, Media
  Tools, Resources and Contact Us

What are the six main pages of the Falls Toolkit
website?
QUESTION BOARD
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Website for 400

• This section of the website contains electronic
  versions of everything in the Falls Toolkit
  Notebook.

QUESTION BOARD
What is the Falls Notebook section?
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Website for 500

• This section contains information that is not
  printed in the notebook.

QUESTION BOARD
What is the Resources Section?
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Website for 600

• This page contains tools for calculating fall
  rates, educating patients and staff and fall
  related websites.

What is the Resources page?
QUESTION BOARD
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Website for 700

• Spread documents from the NCPS Falls
  Collaborative are located on this page.

QUESTION BOARD
What is the Resources page?
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Website for 800

• This will occur annually.

QUESTION BOARD
How often will the website be updated?
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Website for 900

• This guide provides resources for educating
  patients and staff on falls prevention.

What is the Educational Resource Guide?
QUESTION BOARD
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Website for 1000

• Email addresses for specific staff at NCPS and
  the main phone number for NCPS.

What is on the Contact Us page?
QUESTION BOARD
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Videos for 100

• Performing a Balance Assessment
• Hip Protectors in an Inpatient Setting
• Protecting Your Hips with Hip Protectors

What are the three videos included in the Falls
Toolkit?
QUESTION BOARD
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Videos for 200

• This video is designed specifically for educating
  patients.

QUESTION BOARD
What is Protecting Your Hips with Hip
Protectors?
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Videos for 300

• This video is for educating nursing staff on the
  use of hip protectors as part of a fall
  prevention program.

What is Hip Protectors in an Inpatient Setting?
QUESTION BOARD
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Videos for 400

• This video is designed for Rehabilitation
  Therapists ONLY.

What is Performing a Balance Assessment?
QUESTION BOARD
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Videos for 500

• The Falls Toolkit Media Box

QUESTION BOARD
Where are the videos located?
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Videos for 600

• Video CD and VHS

QUESTION BOARD
What format are the videos in?
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Videos for 700

• DOUBLE JEOPARDY
• There is a dangerous maneuver that should only be
  performed by a rehabilitation therapist.

QUESTION BOARD
Why is the Performing a Balance Assessment
video for Rehabilitation Therapists ONLY?
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Videos for 800

• The materials relating to the videos are located
  in their respective sections of this part of the
  falls toolkit.

QUESTION BOARD
What is the Falls Toolkit Notebook?
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Videos for 900

• This video should be used to educate patients
  when providing them with hip protectors.

QUESTION BOARD
What is Protecting Your Hips with Hip
Protectors?
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Videos for 1000

• This format of the videos can be viewed on any
  computer that has Widows Media Player or a
  similar program.

QUESTION BOARD
What is a Video CD or VCD?
TO CERTIFICATE
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Certificate of Completion

• This certificate is to acknowledge that
• ___________________________
• (write name above)
• Completed the Falls Toolkit Jeopardy training.
• Please print out this certificate and provide it
  to your education coordinator.