Collaborative Calls are a forum for education and discussion between the research team and participating hospitals. Collaborative calls are now quarterly on the dates/times listed below. Expand a button to access a summary of each call for that year.
2021 Call Summaries
- October 19, 2021 – Gap Analysis: How do you Stack Up with Other Nebraska Critical Access Hospitals?
- July 27, 2021 - Gap Analysis – Conducting a Comprehensive Inspection of Your Fall Risk Reduction Program
- April 27, 2021 - How Does Human Behavior Fit into Fall Risk Reduction?
- January 26, 2021 - Fall Risk Reduction in the Midst of a Pandemic
2020 Call Summaries
- October 27, 2020 - Simplifying the Fall Event Reporting Process at the Bedside
- August 11, 2020 - Getting Back to Basics: Linking Bedside Interventions to Patient Risk Factors
- April 22, 2020 - Managing Fall Risk during the COVID-19 Pandemic
- January 28, 2020 - Fall Risk Reduction from the Perspective of Patients and Families
2019 Call Summaries
- October 29, 2019 - Closing the Loop on Collaboration:Results of Nursing/Rehab Survey in Relation to Fall Rates
- July 23, 2019 – Strategies for Fall Risk Reduction in a Geriatric Behavioral Health Unit
- April 23, 2019 – What’s in a Rate?
- January 22, 2019 –Team Rounds/Huddles and No-Fall Huddles
2018 Call Summaries
- October 23, 2018 – Sustaining Your Momentum!
- July 17, 2018 – In-House Communication about Falls and System Learning
- April 24, 2018 – Auditing Interventions: A Key Coordinating Team Process
- January 23, 2018 – Best Practices in Post-Fall Assessment
2017 Call Summaries
- October 24, 2017 – Reflect Within Teams When Fall Risk Assessment Fails
- July 25, 2017 – Screening Hospital Outpatients for Fall Risk and Optimizing Learning from Falls using KNOW Falls
- April 18, 2017 – Right CVA and Orthostatic Hypotension as Fall Risk Factors
- Jan 24, 2017 – Spotlight on How Falls Discovered and Choosing a Fall Risk Assessment Tool
2016 Call Summaries
2015 Call Summaries
- Dec 15, 2015 – Expanding and Sustaining CAPTURE Falls in Nebraska video webinar
- June 23, 2015 – Effectiveness of fall risk reduction coordinating team was associated with fall rates
- March 24, 2015 – Changes in Fall Rates and Sensemaking in Post-Fall Huddles
- January 27, 2015 – Continuing to Learn—Association between Bed Type and Level of Harm
2014 Call Summaries
- September 23, 2014 – Sustainment through Learning
- July 22, 2014 – Structures and Processes that Produced Outcomes
- June 24, 2014 – Progress in Safety Culture and Next Steps
- April 22, 2014 – Progress and Next Steps
- March 25, 2014 – Fall Risk Assessments…what are hospitals using and how good are they at assessing risk?
- February 25, 2014 – Community Discussions/Feedback
- January 28, 2014 – Lessons Learned from Aggregating Fall Events Aug. 2012 – Dec. 2013 and Discussion: Priorities for Sustaining the Project
2012-2013 Call Summaries
- November 26, 2013 – Lessons Learned from CAPTURE Falls and Discussion:Barriers and Successes Delivering Patient/Family Education and Managing Transitions in Care for Patients at Risk of Falls and/or Frailty
- October 22, 2013 – Second Update on Post-Fall Huddles
- September 24, 2013 – National Fall Prevention Awareness and Big Ideas for Implementation
- August 27, 2013 – National Fall Prevention Awareness Day and Tips for Teamwork Perceptions Questionnaire Interpretation
- July 23, 2013 – Results from Teamwork Perceptions—Fall Risk Reduction Survey and Lessons to Share from Hospitals
- June 25, 2013 - More Lessons Learned from Event Reports
- May 28, 2013 – Update on Post-Fall Huddles
- April 23, 2013 – Updates and Potential Relationship Between Falls and CAUTI
- March 26, 2013 – Initial Lessons Learned from Event Reports
- February 26, 2013 – Case Study: Implementing a Fall Risk Reduction Program
- January 2013 - Case Study: Choosing a Fall Risk Assessment
- Use the Test Performance Measure Worksheet for a step by step process to calculate sensitivity, specificity, and positive and negative predictive values of various fall risk assessments
- November 2012 - Post Fall Huddle
- October 2012 - Event Reporting