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Fall TIPS Program

Provider Provider in Home with Senior Patients
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Tuesday, July 20, 2021, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET.

10:00 a.m. Pacific  |  11:00 a.m. Mountain  |  12 noon Central

 

Access Recording

Join us for an overview of the Fall TIPS (Tailoring Interventions for Patient Safety) Program and its impact on falls reduction in acute care settings.

The TIPS Program is a nurse-led, evidence-based fall prevention intervention that uses bedside tools to communicate patient-specific risk factors for falls and uses a tailored prevention plan. The toolkit provides care team members with the information they need to routinely engage in the fall-prevention process.

Objectives

  • Examine the issue of fall prevention in hospitals, and how Fall TIPS can help address this.
  • Review the evidence behind Fall TIPS, how to use the Morse Falls Scale to conduct a fall risk assessment, and the Fall TIPS auditing process.
  • Discuss the results of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)-funded Patient-Centered Fall Prevention study.
  • Discover how to join the Fall TIPS Collaborative to receive the Fall TIPS Toolkit, training, and implementation materials.

Presenter

Patricia Dykes, PhD, MA, RN, is a senior nurse scientist and research program director at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. she received her bachelor of science in Nursing from Fairfield University, a Masters in Nursing from NYU, and a doctorate in nursing informatics from Columbia. 

Continuing Education

Continuing Education (CE): Health Services Advisory Group, Inc., is the CE provider for this event. Provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider Number 16578, for 1 contact hour. There is no charge to attend this event. You must attend the live event to earn CE credit.