Reducing Falls

Course Purpose

Build nursing skills to screen for fall risk, identify reversible causes, select individualized interventions, and teach safe mobility and assistive-device use.

Continuing Education Credit Designation

This educational activity is credited for 3 contact hours at completion of the activity.

Overview

This course prepares nurses to recognize intrinsic, medication-related, behavioral, and environmental contributors to falls across care settings. Learners will apply current screening, assessment, and post-fall evaluation principles rather than relying on a risk score alone. After completing the course, the nurse will be able to create an individualized fall-prevention plan, support safe transfers and ambulation, teach correct use of common mobility devices, and communicate changes in fall and injury risk to the interprofessional team.

Objectives

Upon completion of this independent study, the learner will be able to:

1. Define a fall and distinguish fall-risk screening from comprehensive multifactorial assessment.
2. Identify intrinsic, extrinsic, medication-related, and situational factors that increase fall or fall-injury risk.
3. Explain how normal gait, balance, posture, vision, sensation, cognition, and cardiovascular function affect safe ambulation.
4. Perform an evidence-based fall-risk assessment and recognize findings requiring urgent evaluation or referral.
5. Develop an individualized plan using exercise, medication review, environmental modification, continence management, and patient education.
6. Demonstrate nursing principles for safe transfers, ambulation, and use of walkers and crutches.

Who this course is for:

Advanced Practice Registered Nurses, registered nurses, licensed practical or vocational nurses, and other healthcare providers in any setting who want continuing education on Reducing Falls.

Course outline

10 sections · finish in any order across devices

1. 1

   Introduction

2. 2

   Incidence of Falls

3. 3

   Causes for Falls

4. 4

   Physiology

5. 5

   Mechanics of Ambulation

6. 6

   Steps to Assess Fall Risk

7. 7

   Ways to Reduce Fall Risks

8. 8

   How to Ambulate with Assistive Devices

9. 9

   Nursing Considerations

10. 10

    Conclusion

This Course Satisfies

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