Reducing Fall Risks Associated With Toileting
Presented by Pat Quigley
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Meet your instructor
Pat Quigley
Dr. Patricia Quigley, PhD, MPH, APRN, CRRN, FAAN, FAANP, Nurse Consultant, is a retired Associate Director of the VISN 8 Patient Safety Research Center of Inquiry and is both a Clinical Nurse Specialist and a Nurse Practitioner in Rehabilitation. Her contributions to patient safety, nursing, and rehabilitation are evident…
Chapters & learning objectives
1. Profile the Complexity of Toileting Fall Risk Factors
Falls associated with toileting refer to the activities specific to navigating the physical environment to use the toilet, the physical act of elimination, the environment design of the bathroom, and staffing assistance. These activities are complex and interactive. This chapter introduces an organizational framework that aligns each activity as a contributing fall risk factor that will then be categorized to a specific type of fall.
2. Individualizing Patient’s Toileting Program
Universal approaches to patient toileting programs fail to address the unique toileting needs of each patient. Clinical practice standards require that rehabilitation nurses use clinical judgment to determine each patient’s specific toileting needs and schedule. Rehabilitation nurses will utilize their clinical expertise to maximize each patient’s functional ability to toilet and increase functional independence.
3. Essential Clinical Assessment for Safe Toileting Mobility Demonstration
Safe toileting mobility requires that rehabilitation nurses have the physical assessment skills to evaluate a patient’s ability to manage toileting. These physical assessment skills involve patient handling (i.e., transfers, ambulation, toileting) and activities of daily living tasks (i.e., clothing management, personal hygiene toileting, grooming) that must be assessed for individualized care planning. The rehabilitation nurse must consider each patient’s functional level of dependence/independence (independent, assisted, dependent), weight-bearing status, need for caregiver assistance, and additional fall risk factors (orthostasis, centrally acting medications, diuretics). Rehabilitation nurses will have the opportunity to refresh physical mobility assessment skills into practice as a means to individualize patient care approach and engage the patient/caregiver as a partner in care.
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