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High Reliability: Strategies to Reduce Patient Falls
18 minutes Posted Mar 21, 2022 at 1:45 pm.
] Saint Tammany uses new graduates as mobility technicians to increase patient rounding and mobility assessment.
] Saint Tammany uses Weick and Sutcliffe’s pre-occupation with failure techniques. They train their young, just out of college, staff to expect errors and to work on repeatable results.
] GEM (Greenville Early Mobility) is a four-integer scoring system developed by a group of physical therapists to aid acute care nurses by assigning patients to a level of mobility.
] Saint Tammany uses the GEMs as part of their Progressive Mobility Program which is an order set for nurses to mobilize patients to their highest capability twice a day.
] Data showing the correlation between the patient’s mobility and their likelihood to fall
] Mobility technicians look for the 3 P’s: pain, potty and position.
] Communicating patient mobility status with the caregivers
] Getting the program started
] Future plans for improving the Progressive Mobility Program
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High Reliability Organizations are organizations that experiences success in avoiding harm within a highly complex and risky business.  This podcast will discuss how one participant of the Vizient High Reliability PI Collaborative reduced their patient falls.
 
Guest speakers:
Bert Lindsey, PT, DH
Director of Rehab Services & Patient Mobility, Acute
Saint Tammany Health System
 
Rebecca Baradell
Rehab Manager for Acute Care
Saint Tammany Health System
 
Moderator:
Marilyn Sherrill, RN, MBA
PI Program Director
Vizient
 
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