The document discusses falls prevention in long-term care facilities. It outlines that facilities must ensure residents' environments are free of hazards and that residents receive adequate supervision and assistance to prevent accidents. It describes methods to identify, evaluate, and address hazards and risks to reduce accidents. It also discusses defining avoidable versus unavoidable accidents and the need for facilities to demonstrate commitment to safety.
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REGULATIONS SUPPORT - 8/14/07
THE FACILITY MUST ENSURE THAT
The resident environment remains as free of
accident hazards as is possible; and
Each resident receives adequate supervision and
assistance devices to prevent accidents.
METHOD TO MEET INTENT
Identifying hazards and risks;
Evaluating and analyzing hazards and risks;
Implementing interventions to reduce hazards and
risks; and
Monitoring for effectiveness and modifying
interventions as indicated.
AVOIDABLE ACCIDENT
Facility failed to:
Identify environmental hazard and resident risk
Evaluate/analyze hazard and risk
implement interventions
Monitor and modify interventions as needed
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UNAVOIDABLE ACCIDENT
Accident occurred despite facility’s efforts to:
Identify environmental hazard and resident risk
Evaluate/analyze hazard and risk
implement interventions
Monitor and modify interventions as needed
COMMITMENT TO SAFETY
A facility with a commitment to safety:
Identifies risk
Reports risk
Involves all staff
Utilizes resources
Commitment to safety demonstrated at all levels of
organization
RESIDENT RISKS
-Falls are defined as unintentionally coming to rest on the
ground, floor, or other lower level, but not as a result of an
overwhelming external force.
-An episode where a resident loses his/her balance and would
have fallen, if not for staff intervention, is considered a fall.
-A fall without injury is still a fall.
ADEQUATE SUPERVISION
The lack of adequate supervision to prevent accidents occurs
when the facility has:
Failed to accurately assess a resident and/or the resident
environment to determine whether supervision to avoid an
accident or injury was necessary; and/or
Determined supervision of the resident or resident environment
was necessary, but failed to provide it.
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DEFICIENCY CATEGORIZATION
SEVERITY LEVEL 4 CONSIDERATIONS
Examples of Level 4 might include:
Fracture or other injury that may require surgical intervention
and results in significant decline in mental and/or physical
functioning;
DEFICIENCY CATEGORIZATION
SEVERITY LEVEL 3 CONSIDERATIONS
Examples of Level 3 might include:
Fracture or other injury that may require surgical intervention
and does not result in significant decline in mental and/or
physical functioning;
RESTRAINTS: AN OLD STORY
1600
1700
1800
1900
2000
2012
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Bedlam
Chairs, straitjackets
Boxes
all of the above
all of the above & Psychological Restraints
all of the above & Chemical Restraints (1990!)
THE MYTH
We don’t know what else to do!
THE TRUTH
WE DO!
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4. THE SUPPORTING GOALS AND BELIEFS
Life=Purpose
Plagues of the Elderly
Boredom
Loneliness
Helplessness
A Fall and Motivation
The Ultimate Falls Reduction Belief
“ANSWERS TO FALLS MITIGATION LIES IN YOUR ABILITY TO
LOOK INSIDE OF THE RESIDENT’S REALITY - - - - NOT
SOLELY AT EXTERNAL “THINGS”
STAFF GOAL MUST BE
“TO DETERMINE THE RESIDENT’S GOAL FOR MOVING OR
GETTING UP AND THEN HELPING THEM MEET IT.”
CHALLENGING BEHAVIOR
Whose Problem Is it?
What is Non-compliance?
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?
How do you see you role in falls mitigation?
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5. Where, cont....
What does the Falls Qa Data Show? How have you utilized it?
What global interventions have been put into place based on that
data?
When a resident falls, who is responsible for determining the
changes to the care plan, if any are required?
What is the role of your falls committee?
How does that information get disseminated? Is there a
mechanism so that every employee working the next shift knows
the change/addition in the interventions?
If I asked all staff why folks are still falling, what would they say?
Are social interventions offered? Name three you see in place
today.
Are social interventions valued? Relate one instance where you
rewarded another staff member for trying to use a social
intervention. Preferably this would be a front line staff member, a
charge nurse or a floor nurse.
Do you feel you falls SHOULD be less? Why? Why not?
Do you feel your falls COULD be less? Why? Why not?
Who on the staff is doing a great job as part of the solution?
How have you utilized their talents with the remaining staff in
education, example, hands on demonstration?
Who on staff continues to be part of the problem? Why? What is
stopping them from becoming part of the solution?
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6. FACILITY ACTIONS
1. Has the pre-admission assessment proved successful? Why?
Why not?
2. Does the management team demonstrate support of the
physical, chemical and psychological restraint freedom
philosophy?
3. Has the facility formulated and committed to paper their
philosophy regarding freedom from all types of restraints?
4. Is that restraint freedom philosophy shared during preadmission and admission discussion?
5. Does the facility meet with the families/responsible parties to
provide information on refusal to use restraints?
6. Has the facility included their philosophy in the resident
handbook?
7. Does the facility utilize their philosophy when interviewing and
hiring new employees?
8. Does orientation/training of new staff include restraint
philosophy information?
9. Can all staff 1) Define a restraint; 2) State the dangers of
restraints; 3) List ways to determine alternatives and give at least
3 resident-specific examples of alternatives?
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7. Facility Action....
10. Does the facility assessments address all types of restraints physical, chemical and psychological: 1) How restraint use will
assist resident in reaching his/her highest level of physical and
psycho social well-being; 2) Increase independence and function,
3) Provide the resident with a purpose to live; 4. Medical
symptoms supporting restraint use; and 5) Cognitive functional
age.
11. Have all confused residents been assessed for safety with
siderails?
12. Are restraints applied and monitored only by professional
staff members?
13. Do you use Fall Classes, Tai Chi, extended wear briefs
CAUSES OF BEHAVIORS
Physical/Emotional Health
Environmental
Causes, cont...
Task Specific
Communication
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8. Assessment of Behaviors
Eleven W’s
WHO has the challenge
WHAT is the challenge
WHY address it
WHAT happens before
WHERE does it happen
WHAT does it mean
WHEN does it occur
WHAT is the pattern
WHO is around when it happens
WHAT is the usual outcome
WHAT is the desired outcome
ABCs
Antecedents to Behavior
Behavior
Consequences
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9. Social Assessment
What does the resident like to:
See
Smell
Taste
Touch
Hear
Three stories that make the resident
happy
Three topics/issues that make the
resident unhappy
What was their favorite chair before
they came to the facility
Where were they sleeping before they
came to the facility
RESIDENT STRENGTHS
Non-thinking Behaviors
Physical Activities
Hoarding
Long Term Memory
Sense of Rhythm
Sense of Humor
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10. REFERENCES
AHCA 800.321.0343 “EVERYBODY WINS” video series
ALLEN-COGNITIVE LEVELS
www.allen-cognitive-levels.com
GROW COALITION -Getting Residents Out of Wheelchairs
www.GROWcoalition.org
THE KENDAL CORPORATION 610.388.5580 Printed materials
NCCNHR; 202.332.2275 - Avoiding Restraint Use booklets
RCCT and BRAIN STIMULATING PROGRAMS
Barbara Brock
419.865.6131
WWW.clocktestrcct.com
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