108A: Team CLARITY: Volunteer Interprofessional Collaboration Fall Prevention Program
Hospitalized older adults are highly susceptible to developing delirium, a serious yet often preventable condition associated with an increased risk of patient falls. Recognizing the need for innovation in care delivery amidst a growing aging population and nursing shortages, the utilization of volunteers and the promotion of interprofessional collaboration emerge as vital strategies to address these challenges. Through the collaboration of the hospital’s volunteer department, nursing education, executive administration, and a geriatrician, a fall prevention program named “Team CLARITY,” was implemented utilizing volunteer visits across the hospital. In this session, learn about implementation, expansion, outcomes, and sustainability of a volunteer-based fall reduction program, providing practical information to those interested in developing similar programs.

108B: Implementation of Evidence-Based Hourly Rounding to Improve Fall Rates of Adult Patients
Patient falls remain a safety concern for all healthcare organizations, and despite current evidence-based processes available for implementation, learn about the project undertaken to address one site’s lack of widely adopted protocols. This will include examination of the root cause of the falls at this site using different methods, sustaining rounding over a longer timeframe, and using additional measures to achieve zero falls over a 30-day period.

108C: Fall Prevention: Using The Method Scoring System
Falls represent a prevalent adverse event in hospitals, imposing substantial physical and economic burdens on both patients and healthcare organizations. Numerous fall prevention guidelines, aimed at mitigating the risk and severity of falls, have been published. This project established a successful fall prevention program emphasizing collaboration, coordination, and communication to elevate the safety and quality of care provided to our patient population on a 19-bed medical surgical unit.

Recording expiration date: 09/14/2026

80% of participants who complete the evaluation will indicate that as a result of viewing this session, they have gained new knowledge or validated their current medical-surgical practice.

Criteria for successful completion:

• View the entire recorded session
• Complete the evaluation

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• There are no relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies for those with the ability to control the content of this activity.

The Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses expresses appreciation to Medtronic for their support of this educational activity as premier partner and for providing a sponsored lunch session during the live event on Friday, September 13, 2024.

Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.