Geriatric and Nursing Home Fall Prevention Education
Expert Speaker # 2:
Dr. Deidre Carolan Doerflinger Ph. D., CRNP
Geriatric Clinical Nurse Specialist
Inova Health System
Deidre is currently working as a Geriatric Clinical Nurse Specialist, providing leadership for an inpatient geriatrics multidisplinary consulting service serving as project manager for Niiche , working with staff to improve care of the elderly and is the clinical nurse specialist for the HELP program at Inova Health System. Deidre is a certified Adult and Gerontologic Nurse Practitioner and Niiche Project Manager.
Deirdre is Adjunct Assistant Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, George Washington University School of Medicine and Health Sciences. As a nurse practitioner, Deirdre is an expert in the areas of fall prevention / protection and restraint reduction.
She is part of a 3 Hour DVD Continuing Education program that we offer to help the long term care education market in nursing home fall prevention , long term care fall prevention and restraint reduction. Her presentation had our live participants raving about the information and knowledge that they were learning to take back to their facilities. We had a combination of hospital risk managers and hospital medical surgical directors participate in this program also, and they gave great testimonials to the education that was also taught regarding elderly fall prevention, fall prevention in hospitals, and designing fall prevention protocols and guidelines.
To enjoy a few minute video clip from Deidre’s presentation, visit www.MedicalNurseTraining.com/LongTermCare.html and click on her video screen.
Hospital Note: We offer this same program for hospitals, as a 3 CEU hour online nurse training program, but we have focused the content to be related to acute care fall prevention in hospitals. It provides vaulable teaching resources for hospital clinical education in fall prevention protocols , bed safety training and restraint reduction training.
Tags: Bed Safety Training, Fall Prevention in Hospitals, Fall Prevention Protocols, Geriatric Fall Prevention, Hospital Risk Manager, Long Term Care Fall Prevention, Nursing Home Fall Prevention, Online Nurse Training, Restraint Reduction, Restraint Reduction Training