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Full Course Description

Fall Prevention Specialist Certification Course

One fall can turn your patient’s life upside down, resulting in rapidly declining health, extended hospital stays, financial loss, fear and isolation.

Whether you’re an OT, PT, nurse or anyone who works in a rehab or healthcare setting, one fall can turn your life upside down as well; erasing the progress your clients have made toward their functional goals, causing you stress as you worry for your patient’s well-being, and leaving you facing the nerve-wracking implications for the reputation of both you and your facility.

Purchase this training, learn how to help patients avoid falls while retaining the strength, balance and mobility it takes to stay functionally independent and become a Certified Fall Prevention Specialist through Evergreen Certifications (see ).

More than just an overview, this intensive Certification Course will offer practical solutions to some of the most challenging real-life situations you face with patients who fall or are at risk of falling. Built on today’s best practices, this program will provide you exactly what you need so you can …

  • Better predict and prevent falls with effective fall prevention tools and strategies
  • Safely build strength, coordination and balance in fallers
  • Restore mobility and function with interventions and assistive technologies
  • Build your professional reputation as a go-to resource on fall prevention

Best of all, upon completion of this live training, you’ll be eligible to become a Certified Fall Prevention Specialist (CFPS) through Evergreen Certifications. Certification lets colleagues, employers, and caregivers know that you’ve invested the extra time and effort necessary to understand the complexities of fall prevention. Professional standards apply. Visit  for details.

CERTIFICATION MADE SIMPLE!

  • No hidden fees – 小蝌蚪视频 pays for your application fee (a $99 value)*!
  • Simply complete this live event and the post-event evaluation included in this training, and your application to be a Certified Fall Prevention Specialist (CFPS) through Evergreen Certifications is complete.*

Attendees will receive documentation of CFPS designation from Evergreen Certifications 4 to 6 weeks following the program.
*Professional standards apply. Visit for professional requirements.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Integrate the latest advances in fall prevention and the most current changes from the CDC into your practice.
  2. Employ comprehensive assessments to identify issues with balance, visual-spatial functioning, proprioception and other root causes of fall risk.
  3. Assess available interventions so you can choose the appropriate ones for safely restoring balance, mobility and function in patients with varying root causes of fall risk.
  4. Integrate multiple approaches and exercise programs for better outcomes with fallers and patients at high-risk of falling.
  5. Determine the safest landing strategies that your patients can employ to reduce the impact of falls.
  6. Develop home exercise programs for patients so they can build strength and coordination.
  7. Utilize tips to recognize abnormal gait patterns in fallers.
  8. Employ ideas and plans that will protect older adults, patients using oxygen, and others at high-risk of falling from injury.
  9. Evaluate parameters for safely intensifying rehab with patients who fall.
  10. Apply best practices for educating and engaging non-compliant patients to reduce their risk of falling.
  11. Investigate evidence-based fall prevention programs that can be used in your facility.
  12. Evaluate home-based risk factors that contribute to falls and determine how these risk factors can be mitigated.

Outline

FALL RISK MITIGATION ESSENTIALS

  • The latest advances in fall prevention
  • The most current changes from the CDC
  • Intrinsic risk factors
  • Environmental extrinsic risk factors
  • Medications and substance use
COMPREHENSIVE FALL RISK ASSESSMENTS
  • HANDS-ON LABS: Predict and Prevent Falls with Tools for Evaluating Your Patients’ …
    • Balance
    • Visual-spatial function
    • Sensory-motor integration
    • Proprioception
    • Vestibular function
    • Gait and mobility
    • Age-related degeneration
    • Home safety
    • Pharmacological side effects
REDUCE FALL RISK AND RESTORE MOBILITY AND FUNCTION
  • HANDS-ON LABS: Interventions, Assistive Technologies and Techniques to …
    • Restore balance, mobility and function
    • Minimize fall impact and injury
    • Treat dizziness and vertigo
    • Improve multitasking, coordination and gait
    • Resolve vision problems that contribute to falls
    • Boost cognition, memory and focus
    • Reduce environmental fall risks
    • Orthotics, gait devices and assistive technology for fallers
IMPROVE STRENGTH, COORDINATION, BALANCE AND SAFETY
  • Multifactor Approaches and Exercise Programs for Fall Reduction
    • Vestibular rehabilitation
    • Strength training programs
    • Quick tips to recognize abnormal gait patterns in fallers
    • Balance assessment tools
    • Nutrition
    • Hydrotherapy interventions
HIGH-RISK PATIENT SOLUTIONS
  • New Ideas and Innovative Plans to Protect Patients from Injury
    • Older adults
    • Impaired vision
    • Patients using oxygen
    • TBI and stroke
    • Multiple Sclerosis
    • Parkinson’s Disease
    • Diabetes
    • Pain
PATIENT EDUCATION TOOLBOX
  • HANDS-ON LABS: Best Practices for Building Understanding and Engagement for Improved Outcomes
    • CDC – STEADI initiative algorithm
    • The American Geriatric Society updated Beers Criteria
    • Evaluate your patient’s understanding of fall prevention
    • Checklists
    • Body mechanics
    • Car and floor transfers
    • Fall recovery techniques
    • Safe landing strategies
    • Best practices for non-compliant patients
DEVELOPING A SUCCESSFUL FALL PREVENTION PROGRAM FOR YOUR FACILITY
  • Evidence based programs
  • STEADI toolkit
  • Marketing and partnership strategies
  • Coding and billing updates
HANDS-ON LABS, PRACTICE AND CASE STUDIES
  • Evaluate a client’s home for risk factors
  • Apply advanced balance training and multitasking techniques
  • Integrate visual testing and gaze stabilization
  • Navigate pharmacological side effect

Target Audience

  • Physical Therapists
  • Physical Therapist Assistants
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Occupational Therapy Assistants
  • Nurse Practitioners
  • Nurses
  • Nursing Home Administrators

Copyright : 04/07/2025

What if it's not BPPV?

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo is the most well-known form of dizziness, however there are multiple other conditions that can cause symptoms of dizziness, motion sensitivity imbalance, and falls. Explore multiple vestibular functional assessments that can be used to assess each area of the vestibular rehabilitation program.  Findings from these assessments will direct the clinician’s clinical decision-making for appropriate treatment techniques to minimize or eliminate dizziness, decrease risk of falls, and restore function.

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Implement appropriate treatment interventions for identified impairments using impairment-based treatment framework.
  2. Develop treatments and progression strategies aimed at alleviating impairments to improve function.
  3. Assess a case study to determine vestibular functional limitations, treatment program, & progression options for optimal outcome of vestibular rehabilitation program.

Outline

  • Vestibular Rehabilitation & Functional Assessments
    • Motion Sensitivity Quotient
    • Dynamic Visual Acuity Test
    • Balance Assessments: Five time sit to stand, Dynamic Gait Index, mCTSIB,
    • Gait speed
  • Assessment Findings & Translation into Treatment Techniques
    • What information can be gained from each assessment
    • How does this translate into function
    • How to incorporate functional daily/work activities into the vestibular rehabilitation program
  • Incorporate & Progress Treatment Plan to Address the Four areas of a Vestibular Rehabilitation Program
    • Habituation
    • Gaze stabilization
    • Balance and gait
    • Endurance
  • Options for progression of treatment
  • Discussion of impairments and functional limitations
  • Review of case study findings for both subjective and objective measures

Target Audience

  • Athletic Trainers
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Occupational Therapy Assistants
  • Physical Therapists
  • Physical Therapy Assistants

Copyright : 04/07/2023

Low Vision Tools and Technology

From no-tech to high-tech, explore today’s best options for helping patients with low vision perform their daily activities! In this session, We’ll discuss screening and assessment techniques to streamline your treatment plan.  Learn simple home modifications that can reduce fall risk and enhance independence!

Program Information

Objectives

  1. Evaluate low vision and the impact on our senior population.
  2. Implement low vision screening tools.
  3. Appraise low- and high-tech tools for people with vision loss.

Outline

  • The Impact of Low Vision
    • Low vision defined
    • Common low vision conditions
    • Prevalence
    • Functional implications
    • Screening and Assessment
  • Low Tech Tools and Strategies
    • Labeling Strategies
    • Writing tools and guides
    • Computer accessibility and keyboard modifications
    • Lighting Types and Tones
    • Contrast
    • Kitchen tools
    • Health Management tools
    • Handheld, pocket, and stand magnifiers
    • Properties of magnification
  • High Tech Tools
    • Electronic Portable Magnifiers
    • CCTVs
    • Optical Character Recognition (OCR) desktop, portable, wearable
    • Wearables
    • Smart Home accessibility
    • Smart Phones and accessibility
    • Low Vision Apps
  • Additional Resources
    • Where to access additional info and how to access low vision products

Target Audience

  • Athletic Trainers
  • Occupational Therapists
  • Occupational Therapy Assistants
  • Physical Therapists
  • Physical Therapy Assistants

Copyright : 03/31/2023