2-Day-Fall Prevention Specialist Certification Course-Fall-proof Your Patients with Today’s Best Practices – Michel (Shelly) Denes

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One fall can turn your patient’s life upside down, resulting in rapidly declining health, extended hospital stays, financial loss, fear and isolation.

Whether you’re an OT, PT, nurse or anyone who works in a rehab or healthcare setting one fall can turn your life upside down as well; erasing the progress your clients have made toward their functional goals, causing you stress as you worry for your patient’s well-being, and leaving you facing the nerve-wracking implications for the reputation of both you and your facility.

Complete this training, learn how to help patients avoid falls while retaining the strength, balance and mobility it takes to stay functionally independent and become a Certified Fall Prevention Specialist through Evergreen Certifications (see www.evergreencertifications.com).

More than just an overview, this intensive Certification Course will offer practical solutions to some of the most challenging reallife situations you face with patients who fall or are at risk of falling. Built on today’s best practices, this program will provide you exactly what you need so you can…

• Better predict and prevent falls with effective fall prevention tools and strategies
• Safely build strength, coordination and balance in fallers
• Restore mobility and function with interventions and assistive technologies
• Build your professional reputation as a go-to resource on fall prevention

Best of all, upon completion of this live training, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Fall Prevention Specialist (CFPS) through Evergreen Certifications. Certification lets colleagues, employers, and caregivers know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of fall prevention. Professional standards apply. Visit www.evergreencertifications.com/cfps for details.

Certification Made Simple

In just three easy steps, you can become a Certified Fall Prevention Specialist.

• Step 1: Watch the digital seminar
• Step 2: Complete the CE test and instantly print your certificate of completion.
• Step 3: Submit your certificate of completion and professional license to Evergreen Certifications. Click here for certification requirements.

That’s it! No hidden fees. No catch. Just certification made EASY.

*Professional Standards apply. Click Here to Learn More About CFPS Certification

*We partner with Evergreen Certifications to include certification with some of our products. When you purchase such a product we may disclose your information to Evergreen Certifications for purposes of providing services directly to you or to contact you regarding relevant offers.

1. Integrate the latest advances in fall prevention and the most current changes form the CDC into your practice.
2. Employ comprehensive assessments to identify issues with balance, visual-spatial functioning, proprioception and other root causes of fall risk.
3. Assess available interventions so you can choose the appropriate ones for safely restoring balance, mobility and function in patients with varying root causes of fall risk.
4. Integrate multiple approaches and exercise programs for better outcomes with fallers and patients at high-risk of falling.
5. Determine the safest landing strategies that your patients can employ to reduce the impact of falls.
6. Develop home exercise programs for patients so they can build strength and coordination.
7. Utilize tips to recognize abnormal gait patterns in fallers.
8. Employ ideas and plans that will protect older adults, patients using oxygen, and others at high-risk of falling from injury.
9. Evaluate parameters for safely intensifying rehab with patients who fall.
10. Apply best practices for educating and engaging non-compliant patients to reduce their risk of falling.
11. Investigate evidence-based fall prevention programs that can be used in your facility.
12. Evaluate home-based risk factors that contribute to falls and determine how these risk factors can be mitigated.

FALL RISK MITIGATION ESSENTIALS

• The latest advances in fall prevention
• The most current changes from the CDC
• Intrinsic risk factors
• Environmental extrinsic risk factors
• Medications and substance use

COMPREHENSIVE FALL RISK ASSESSMENTS

• HANDS-ON LABS: Predict and Prevent Falls with Tools for Evaluating Your Patients’ …
  • Balance
  • Visual-spatial function
  • Sensory-motor integration
  • Proprioception
  • Vestibular function
  • Gait and mobility
  • Age-related degeneration
  • Home safety
  • Pharmacological side effects

REDUCE FALL RISK AND RESTORE MOBILITY AND FUNCTION

• HANDS-ON LABS: Interventions, Assistive Technologies and Techniques to …
  • Restore balance, mobility and function
  • Minimize fall impact and injury
  • Treat dizziness and vertigo
  • Improve multitasking, coordination and gait
  • Resolve vision problems that contribute to falls
  • Boost cognition, memory and focus
  • Reduce environmental fall risks
  • Orthotics, gait devices and assistive technology for fallers

IMPROVE STRENGTH, COORDINATION, BALANCE AND SAFETY

• Multifactor Approaches and Exercise Programs for Fall Reduction
  • Vestibular rehabilitation
  • Strength training programs
  • Quick tips to recognize abnormal gait patterns in fallers
  • Balance assessment tools
  • Nutrition
  • Hydrotherapy interventions

HIGH-RISK PATIENT SOLUTIONS

• New Ideas and Innovative Plans to Protect Patients from Injury
  • Older adults
  • Impaired vision
  • Patients using oxygen
  • TBI and stroke
  • Multiple Sclerosis
  • Parkinson’s Disease
  • Diabetes
  • Pain

PATIENT EDUCATION TOOLBOX

• HANDS-ON LABS: Best Practices for Building Understanding and Engagement for Improved Outcomes
  • CDC – STEADI initiative algorithm
  • The American Geriatric Society updated Beers Criteria
  • Evaluate your patient’s understanding of fall prevention
  • Checklists
  • Body mechanics
  • Car and floor transfers
  • Fall recovery techniques
  • Safe landing strategies
  • Best practices for non-compliant patients

DEVELOPING A SUCCESSFUL FALL PREVENTION PROGRAM FOR YOUR FACILITY

• Evidence based programs
• STEADI toolkit
• Marketing and partnership strategies
• Coding and billing updates

HANDS-ON LABS, PRACTICE AND CASE STUDIES

• Evaluate a client’s home for risk factors
• Apply advanced balance training and multitasking techniques
• Integrate visual testing and gaze stabilization
• Navigate pharmacological side effect