Post-Fall Assessment Education
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- Best Practices in Post-Fall Assessment: The Best Practices in Post-Fall Assessment created by the UNMC CAPTURE Falls team provides an overview of recommendations and resources for how and when to assess a patient for injury following a fall.
- Post-Fall Assessment Case Study Development Guide: This document, created by the UNMC CAPTURE Falls team, provides step-by-step instructions to develop case studies using your own patient population, including information to collect from the medical record and suggested questions for discussion. These cases can be used to give staff practice applying your organization’s policies and procedures regarding post-fall clinical assessment.
- Customizable Post-Fall Assessment Education Slide Deck: This PowerPoint file, created by the UNMC CAPTURE Falls team, can be used to support delivery of an educational presentation to staff on the process to follow when assessing patients for injury after a fall. The current content summarizes information from reputable resources on this topic but should be adapted to align with your organization’s policies and procedures for actions to take following a fall.
- Customizable Post-Fall Knowledge Assessment: This document, created by the UNMC CAPTURE Falls team, contains multiple-choice, multiple-answer, and true/false questions you can use to evaluate staff knowledge about post-fall clinical assessment. Some questions can be customized to reflect your organization’s policies and procedures for post-fall clinical assessment.
- Managing Patients after a Fall: Section 3.5 How should you assess and manage patients after a fall? in the AHRQ Fall Prevention Toolkit provides guidance on the post-fall assessment and documentation process.
Post-Fall Assessment Tools