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RN, BA, MA
Sue Ann Guildermann has more than forty years of experience providing education, leadership, and consultation to nonprofit and for-profit senior service organizations. Sue Ann is a registered nurse, with a BA and MA in communication. She currently conducts research of evidence-based findings and practices to create quality improvement programs, educational seminars, and conferences with targeted solutions for Empira, a consortium of 26 skilled nursing facilities and 14 assisted living facilities in Minnesota. For the past three years, she has traveled nationally to share the findings from the work of two national and state quality improvement grants awarded to Empira. The purpose of these grants was to reduce resident falls in skilled nursing homes and to ensure that their residents slept undisturbed throughout the night.
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Browse Course CatalogReducing Falls in Nursing Homes
Presented by Sue Ann Guildermann, RN, BA, MA
Reducing Falls in Nursing Homes
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Video Runtime: 24 Minutes, Learning Assessments: 4 Minutes
This course will provide practical steps to help all staff members identify the root causes for why a resident has fallen. Once the causes for the fall are determined, then corrective interventions and actions that match the causes can be put into place, which can eliminate or reduce the likelihood of that type of fall occurring again.
This course will provide practical steps to help all staff members identify the root causes for why a resident has fallen. Once the causes for the fall are determined, then corrective interventions and actions that match the causes can be put into place, which can eliminate or reduce the likelihood of that type of fall occurring again.
Empira Falls Series: Introduction to Root Cause Analysis
Presented by Sue Ann Guildermann, RN, BA, MA
Empira Falls Series: Introduction to Root Cause Analysis
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This course is part one of a four-part series of the Empira Falls Module. Empira is a consortium of Aging Service providers in Minnesota who created a successful falls program in the nursing home setting based on Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and evidence-based research. This course provides all staff in nursing homes with the key concepts, methodology, and tools of RCA to assist in determining causation of problems, conditions, and situations. RCA is a structured method of problem-solving utilized to find out what happened and why it happened, and to determine what can be done to prevent it from happening again. While it is frequently used when something goes wrong, RCA can also be used when something goes right, to ensure that it happens again. Focusing performance improvement operations at root causes is more effective than merely treating the symptoms of problems.
Empira Falls Series: Applying Root Cause Analysis to Falls
Presented by Sue Ann Guildermann, RN, BA, MA
Empira Falls Series: Applying Root Cause Analysis to Falls
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This course is part 2 of a 4 part series of the Empira Fall Module. Empira is a consortium of Aging Service providers in Minnesota who created a successful Falls program for the long term care setting based on Root Cause Analysis (RCA). This course provides all staff in skilled nursing facilities with application of RCA to falls management and prevention.
Empira Falls Series: Causation of Resident Falls
Presented by Sue Ann Guildermann, RN, BA, MA
Empira Falls Series: Causation of Resident Falls
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This course is part 3 of a 4 part series of the Empira Fall Module. Empira is a consortium of Aging Service providers in Minnesota who created a successful Falls Management Program designed with evidenced-based research and practical application in the long term care setting. This course is designed to assist all staff in skilled nursing facilities with the identification of the intrinsic and personal conditions of the resident that may contribute to resident falls. Key intrinsic causes with successful solutions will be explained.
Empira Falls Series: Falls Solutions & Interventions
Presented by Sue Ann Guildermann, RN, BA, MA
Empira Falls Series: Falls Solutions & Interventions
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This course is part 4 of a 4 part series of the Empira Fall Module. After fall causation is identified, solutions and interventions need to be determined. A solution that eliminates the cause is preferable. However, too often the cause can not be eliminated; therefore, solutions consideration become broader and needs to focus prevention through intrinsic, extrinsic and systemic interventions.
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