Clinical Practice Guideline: Fall Risk Assessment

This Clinical Practice Guideline focuses on evidence-based practices regarding fall risk assessment of emergency department patients across the lifespan. Course expires 7/31/2025.

Description

Assessing a patient’s potential fall risk while hospitalized is the initial step in fall prevention. The emergency department is a unique environment, with patients presenting in acute phases of illness. As a result, injury and fall risk assessment and associated intervention may warrant different strategies than in other acute care settings.

Disclosure: The planners of this course have no relevant financial relationships with any ineligible companies to disclose. Learners will be awarded 1.25 CNE contact hours after reading the CPG, completing the post-exam, and submitting an evaluation. Course expires 7/31/2025.

The Emergency Nurses Association is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Provider Unit #P0232.

The Emergency Nurses Association is approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #2322.

Summary


Availability:	On-Demand
	Access expires on 07/31/2025


Cost:	Member: $0.00 Non-Member: $9.95


Credit Offered:	1.25 Contact Hour Credits