Patient Training Plan

Training the remainder of the staff will be significantly less by doing the training in the office before office hours. This training will be spread out over two mornings before the clinic opens to patients. There will be no overtime and we will be providing breakfast for the staff. This training will be conducted by Nancy Drew and will include use of the STEADI assessment tool, The Get Up and Go test, and the 4 Stage Balance test, as well as training the patient care coordinator to included patient questionnaires and to ensure that it is filled out correctly and documented in each patient’s charts. The budget for this has been allotted only for the breakfast costs for the staff of our small clinic which the allowance is $75.00.
The remainder of our budget will go towards community education programs. The clinic's main objective towards fall risk prevention is to educate the population which is highest at risk: the geriatric population. The geriatric population of our clinic is currently 796 and only 271 receive the annual fall risk assessment. This is the factor that is …show more content…
Ms. Bosse was very forthright in explaining that there is no one tool that is effective at diagnosing a possible fall. Since all the tools created are left up to individual interpretation, it is best to use multiple tests to assess a possible risk. “It is well recognized that the performance of any given fall risk assessment tool varies when used in different settings. This may result from differences in patient, staffing, and environmental characteristics” (Vassallo, Stockdale, Sharma, Briggs, & Allen, 2005, pg. 1036). It was recommended to use a fall risk assessment questionnaire with a variety of physical test to assess strength, gait, and