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Medical Nurse Training, Inc. announces two programs that will increase patient settlements, assist representation at trial, and bring Attorneys state of the art fall prevention and protection training.

Medical Nurse Training is the premier portal for training nurses and doctors utilizing a nationally known Geriatric Doctor, the Assistant Director of Nursing at Johns Hopkins and Patrick Devaney who has over 25 years experience lecturing on these topic to tens of thousands of nurses, doctors, lawyers, and healthcare facilities. The assistant director of Nursing at Johns Hopkins, an expert legal medical witness, demonstrates the current standards of care in fall prevention and bed safety.  Also discussed in detail, are the legal ramifications of not following these practices.

Root causes and specific solutions for patient falls, resident falls, and in home falls are also described in detail in this on line or DVD based program. There are two low cost accredited programs that include Acute Care and Long Term Care/Home Care.  Independent Falls Consultant, Jaime Cole stated, “The flow of the program is very impressive and easy to follow along with since it is predominately lecture video with side by side PowerPoint.”  Protocols and over 400 pages of other resources are also included that cover nearly every aspect of this topic.  

Numerous current tools, statistics, pictures, and videos will be useful in any pretrial brief or trial proceedings.  Medical Nurse Training, Inc. provides continuous updates through their website that are sure to provide incredible insight to any Firm with valuable monthly blogs and newsletters. This program will bring added value to all personal injury cases with many statistical benchmarks, deferential analysis, and standards of care.

For more information about the programs available from Medical Nurse Training, Inc., please visit http://www.medicalnursetraining.com.

In recent months there have been side rail entrapments resulting in injury and death. Recent Joint Commission and CMS surveys have punctuated this high risk trend.

The Clinical Guidance for the Clinical Assessment and Implementation of Bed Rails from the Bed Safety workgroup and the FDA is the operating tool to reduce this risk. The use of this tool and other current resources for increasing patient and resident safety are included in the 3 credit hour program from www.MedicalNurseTraining.com . This program details the risk of side rails and offers everyday practical solutions to reduce the incidence of bed entrapment and fall related injury.

This program draws on Joint Commission recommendations included in the REDUCING THE RISK OF FALLS in your Health Care Organization by Joint Commission Resources. The program follows the evidence based protocols of such organizations as Johns Hopkins and relates these programs to practical solutions.

It also utilizes the recommendations of the National Center for Patient Safety and many other facility based solutions in a 400 page resource CD or downloadable on line program.

Delving deeper into the clear recommendations of Joint Commission include the use of numerous environmental changes as well as devices that protect patients and residents:

“Hip protectors are a good intervention for care recipients with dementia or other cognitive defects. They allow the care recipient to be active while helping to prevent hip fractures if they fall.”

“A safe room has devices such as nonskid floor mats and a commode placed at a 90-degree angle to the bed”

“Bed Exit Alarms, Chair Exit Alarms, Voice Alarms telling the patient not to get up because a nurse would come by shortly to help, Freedom Splints (sleeves that fit over the forearm and upper arm) to reduce the risk of the patient pulling out tubes, Torso supports to maintain the patients posture and positioning, Mitts to keep the patient from pulling out IVs and nasogastric tubes, Antiskid Floor Mats, and Antislip footwear”

All of the above recommendations appear in the REDUCING THE RISK OF FALLS in your Health Care Organization by Joint Commission Resources

I would suggest that a great way to review these types of devices would be to go to www.posey.com for a review from a premier manufacturer of patient safety devices. You will also find a complete selection of up to date side rail alternatives, seizure side rail pads and side rail protectors to help your facility become FDA compliant.

Written by Patrick Devaney, Medical Nurse Training, Inc. 

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.