GeriWard Falls: An Interprofessional Team-Based Curriculum on Falls in the Hospitalized Older Adult.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Interprofessional (IP) collaboration is key in caring for older adults and a critical part of health professions education. Falls are a source of significant morbidity and mortality in older adults. GeriWard, an innovative curriculum, emphasizes IP collaboration during a clinical encounter with a hospitalized older adult. GeriWard Falls expands on the existing GeriWard curriculum, allowing medical, pharmacy, physical therapy, and nursing students to conduct a comprehensive falls risk evaluation at the bedside.

Methods

The 2-hour exercise consists of participation in a team-based falls risk assessment at the bedside of a hospitalized older adult, development of a falls care plan and communication with the patient and primary inpatient physicians, and completion o

SUBMITTER: Larson C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6464557 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature