Pioneer Webinar Series Continues This Week

The Pioneer Network's webinar series Using the MDS 3.0 as an Engine for High Quality Individualized Care continues this week with the program Promoting Mobility and Reducing Falls by Individualizing Care and Eliminating Alarms. It will be held February 9, 2012 from 2:00 - 3:00 ET.

Joanne Rader, who pioneered tie-on restraint elimination, will describe the similar detrimental affects of alarms - because they limit mobility and independent function - and provide a primer on alarm elimination. Using the "use it or lose it" rule, she believes that promoting mobility and core strength is the best "safety" plan for reducing falls with serious injury. Highlighting key sections of the MDS, Rader will describe how to work with an interdisciplinary team to assess individuals and their environment to assist with independent transfer and show how therapy can provide mobility devices and customize seating.

Two nursing homes will then share their experience of promoting mobility. Sycamore Village in Kokomo, IN graduated from being a Special Focus Facility, by using strong teamwork, consistent assignment, huddles, and just-in-time care planning to individualize care. As they removed alarms, they reduced their falls. Hear about their "out of the box" approach to therapy and willingness to try something different. Sycamore's administrator, Director of Nursing, and Rehabilitation Coordinator will describe their experience. Their sister home in Greenfield, IN, learned what they were doing and used the same process to eliminate alarms and reduce falls in their organization. The change, says their administrator, has changed the culture and the environment, from one of rushing in reaction to the noise, to anticipating and calming meeting residents' needs. Her message: it's all about trust.

Program objectives include:

• Identify key interventions to promote mobility and reduce falls with injury
• Provide a step-by-step process for alarm elimination and mobility promotion
• Bridge mobility promotion to the organizational practices that support individualized, interdisciplinary assessment and care planning

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