Session Date: Thursday, June 5, 2025

Session Time: 8:00 AM - 11:15 AM (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)

This program will be held on Zoom. The session will be recorded and available on-demand, however, no CE will be offered for on-demand participation.

There is a critical need for effective fall risk assessment and prevention strategies in skilled nursing environments. Our upcoming presentation will: Define fall risk and its impact on health and quality of life. Review current knowledge and methodologies for fall prevention. Educate on using root cause analysis to identify gaps and contributing factors. Discuss implementing prevention interventions with the PDCA cycle. Join us to gain actionable insights and strategies to enhance patient safety by mitigating fall risks effectively.

Learner Objectives:

1. Verbalize factors placing residents at fall risk. 
2. Identify implications of a fall on health and quality of life.
3. Demonstrate use of a root cause analysis tool and target a gap in prevention.
4. Discuss the development of interventions to address the gap.
5. Create interventions for an experiment using the PDCA cycle.

Nurse Learner Outcome:  At the conclusion of this session, 80% of participants will self-report a knowledge gain of factors placing residents at fall risk and use of root cause analysis to target interventions addressing gaps in fall prevention on the post session evaluation.

RN: This program will provide participants the opportunity to earn up to 3 nurse contact hours. Health Care Association of Michigan is approved as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the Wisconsin Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. This program is jointly provided with MI-NADONA/LTC.

NHA: The Health Care Association of Michigan is a Certified Sponsor of continuing education with the National Association of Long Term Care Administrator Boards (NAB).

• This program has been submitted, but not yet approved for Continuing Education for 3 total participant hours by NAB/NCERS - Approval #
• NHA CE is not being offered for on-demand completion of this program.

CE Reporting:  HCAM will need 30 days after the event conclusion to compile and process all attendance data. Once the data is compiled, certificates will be available to access. Certificate questions should be directed to Mary Gettel.

Requirements of Participation:

1. Attendance is being strictly monitored.
2. Be sure you are entering and exiting sessions at the start and end of the session – if you miss more than 10 minutes because you arrived late or left early, you will lose partial credit. HCAM will issue partial credit by half hour attended. It is YOUR responsibility to follow the agenda and be on time!
3. A post-test must be successfully completed with a passing score of 85% or higher in order to earn credit.
4. The evaluation must be completed in order to earn your certificate of completion.
5. Attendees caught cheating or violating our attendance policies will not receive credit for the remainder of the event.