Completing Yo r Q alit Completing Your Quality Improvement Plan

Falls – Change Ideas• ↓ or eliminate use of bedrails and restraints (canparadoxically lead to more falls)• Use beds lower to ground with mats to cushion a potential fall• ↓ use of drugs that increase risk of falls (e.g.benzodiazepines)• Ensure proper foot wear used consistently• Improve consistent use of assistive devices (e.g. walkers)• Physiotherapy to increase lower body strength and balance,for selected individuals• prompted voiding protocols to ↓inconnence– prevent individual d getting up to void if can’t wait for help hl25