Rapid Fire Team Presentation Template

1. Rapid Fire Team Presentation Template Name of Presenter: Aimée Bourgoin

2. Who We Are Name of Organization: Covenant Health– EGCCC Location of Facility: Edmonton, AB Number of Patients/Residents/Clients: 460

3. AIM ▪Develop a plan for falls prevention and injury reduction for sustaining practice change. ▪Demonstrate a 15% improvement in baseline measures and sustain them for 3 consecutive months.

4. Team Members • ▪Averil Suriyakumaran (Executive Director), Dorothy Cochrane, Carolyn • Bougher (Directors of Care), Executive Sponsors • ▪Aimée Bourgoin (Clinical Nurse Specialist), Team Leader • ▪Melissa Crozier (Resident Care Manager), Elaine Ferguson • (Physiotherapist), Ophelia Leung (Occupational Therapist), Cathy • Wunderlich (Practice Development Manager), Team Members

5. Review Falls Change Ideas tested to date in your organization

6. Review Falls Change Ideas tested to date in your organization (cont.)

7. Measures • The riskiest fallers review for the Green Leaf • Program has taken place on one unit and there we • had pre-review data on the number of falls for the • Non-Green Leaf Fallers as well as for the Green • Leaf Fallers • The review happened in November 2011, so you • will see fewer Green Leaf falls after the review, but • now are we missing some other risky fallers?

9. Lessons Learned on Sustaining Falls Improvement Work during Action Period • We must continue to review and revisit our falls initiative or it will not be a living • and important program for prevention for our residents. • We have a large building and when we try to work on an initiative throughout • that building we sometimes falter, taking on too much and not recognizing • individual differences for units. It is ok to work with a unit or group of units to • phase things in. • We need to take full advantage of opportunities to promote the program as they • come along, in our case, the ability to add some education time with an LPN • doing some peer teaching cannot be missed!

10. Challenges to Sustaining Falls Improvement • Barriers—are time, & the belief that we cannot make a difference without more resources. • Facilitators—are that we can show staff that simple changes, such as the Green Leaf program re-visited, do make a difference to the care we provide to our residents. • Moving forward—we must count on needing to go backwards first, i.e. take the time to re-visit the plan & make it work for the new circumstances.

11. 6 Month Post FFLS Sustainability Plans for Falls Improvement Work

12. Contact Information • Name: Aimee Bourgoin, Clinical Nurse Specialist • Email: aimee.bourgoin@covenanthealth.ca • Phone Number: 780-342-8812