ESNEFT Falls Prevention

Patient safety is our business!

[Strength For Life @Strength4_Life]

Strength training for clinical conditions super thread 👇 🧵

#StrengthSavesLives

[ESNEFT Falls Prevention @ESNEFT_fallstop]

Bone health is so important 🦴Prevention is better than cure!👍

[Falls & Fragility Fracture Audit Programme @RCP_FFFAP]

What should happen if you are over 50 and have broken a bone after falling from a standing height or less?
Find out what a fracture liaison service is and the care that you should expect to receive:
https://t.co/TxOFEmHLXl
#FFFAP #audit #FLSDB #FLS #fracture

[ESNEFT Falls Prevention @ESNEFT_fallstop]

@LiamHorkan Glad you weren't tempted to use the stairlift 😜

[ESNEFT Falls Prevention @ESNEFT_fallstop]

@ESNEFT_CAN Fantastic work 🙌

[UK Falls Prevention Network @falls_network]

Ensuring your patient is wearing the right footwear is a critical factor in managing falls risk. Medline have put this simple video together to help you train teams on the appropriate use of their slipper socks.
#ThinkFalls
https://t.co/ZsGG7bcy0R via @YouTube

[Walking stick MOT @WalkingstickMOT]

Quick Tip

Ends of walking stick need to be regularly reviewed

Make sure to check any stick you come across

Change if not "Good"

#fallsprevention

Benefits of a safe walking stick with the right tread

Better posture ✔
More steady ✔
Fewer slips ✔
Injury prevention ✔

[ESNEFT Falls Prevention @ESNEFT_fallstop]

@CamilleCronin @winifred_eboh @Uni_of_Essex @uni_essexhealth Congratulations @thorpe_gilesRN 👏!!

[Trisha Elliott @Trisha_the_doc]

While we’re talking about #Dehydration in older people, please remember this infographic from @matthewbowker.

Urine dipstick is an unreliable way of diagnosing infection in older people. Send a sample & consider other causes of #Delirium, eg #Constipation.

#TipsForNewDoctors

[ESNEFT Falls Prevention @ESNEFT_fallstop]

@ESNEFT_CAN how many times do we say this?

[Laura Rowlinson @laura_rowlinson]

A great quote to encourage a risk enabling approach to rehabilitation in this mornings talk by @HealthPhysio #EndPJparalysis global summit, @ELCHrehab

[Johns Hopkins Activity & Mobility Promotion (AMP) @HopkinsAMP]

Creating games and celebrating achievements can help patients go that extra mile, and engages health care providers too! #EndPJParalysis #HopkinsAMP #everyBODYmoves #patientengagement

[ESNEFT Falls Prevention @ESNEFT_fallstop]

@helenbenn1 Beautiful photo 📸 🤗!

[Kenneth Rockwood @Krockdoc]

Effect of a physical activity intervention and frailty on frailty trajectory and major mobility disability. https://t.co/lvjvQLSfkU Great work in @AGSJournal with @JackQuach @olga_theou @KehlerScott

[Danny Roberts @DannyRoberts03]

Had lovely unexpected lunch date today with a 97 yr old patient on my ward who requires encouragement with her nutritional intake. We laughed, we joked and we shared stories about our lives really made my day and made me think how lucky I am to be a nurse #perfectcare #nurses

[SusAnneR @physiosusieq]

Georgia and Leza have done this fabulous display to promote the falls acronym to help our therapists keep our patients safe by reducing the risk of in patients falls - love a balloon @ESNEFT_AHPs @ESNEFT_fallstop

[ESNEFT Falls Prevention @ESNEFT_fallstop]

@physiosusieq @ESNEFT_AHPs Love this �� ❤️

[ESNEFT Falls Prevention @ESNEFT_fallstop]

This is Teresa our Continence Nurse Specialist - please pop down to see her today in the Education Centre in Ipswich for updates and information regarding latest products and best practice 👏#harmfreecare

[ESNEFT Falls Prevention @ESNEFT_fallstop]

@Team_ESNEFT @EAEmployers Some of the best times of my life being an army reservist👍 #ReservesDay #SaluteOurForces

[ESNEFT Falls Prevention @ESNEFT_fallstop]

@Team_ESNEFT @EAEmployers Some of the best times of my life being an army reservist👍 #ReservesDay #SaluteOurForces

[Royal College of Occupational Therapists @theRCOT]

✍🏿 Occupational therapists can now sign fit notes!

👉🏾 People with health and work problems, will get more detailed and tailored advice.
👉🏼 OTs will boost their skills and think more about their scope of practice.

Find out more: https://t.co/Vaekd4zSE5

@RCOTSS_Work

[Christopher Tuckett MCSP @HealthPhysio]

💥Don't let a fear of falling hamper efforts to get patients moving.

👉 Falls MAY occur if they do move.

👉 Deconditioning WILL occur if they don't.

❌Bed rest isn't harmless, it's harmful.