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NUR4108D: Writing a Healthcare Workplace Policy: Fall Prevention in Healthcare Facilities

Study pack for NUR4108D: Public Policy and Risk Management within Healthcare (Keiser University nursing program). Covers why workplace policies matter and the steps to writing a company policy from the Writing Company Policy lecture slides: SMART goals, tasks and procedures, problems and solutions, policy categories, consequences for violations, clear language, legality, and approval and employee sign-off. Applies these to preventing falls, using the USPSTF recommendation statement on interventions to prevent falls in community-dwelling older adults (JAMA, 2018). Reference extras: a sample workplace policy (Violence in the Workplace), a policy section template (introduction, scope, name and purpose, procedures, exemptions, breach of policy, indemnity), APA 7th edition guidelines and a Keiser title page template.

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Evidence-Based Fall Prevention Policy: Study Plan Understand the USPSTF evidence on preventing falls in community-dwelling older adults and apply policy-writing principles to draft a clear, lawful, evidence-based fall-prevention workplace policy. 6 lessons 235 min

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Drafting an Evidence-Based Fall-Prevention Workplace PolicyFrom: USPSTF Recommendation Statement: Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults (JAMA, 2018) Principles and Steps of Workplace Policy WritingFrom: Writing Company Policy (Lecture Slides) Vitamin D, Other Interventions, and Evidence GapsFrom: USPSTF Recommendation Statement: Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults (JAMA, 2018) Exercise and Multifactorial InterventionsFrom: USPSTF Recommendation Statement: Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults (JAMA, 2018) USPSTF Grades and Levels of CertaintyFrom: USPSTF Recommendation Statement: Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults (JAMA, 2018) Falls in Older Adults: Burden and PopulationFrom: USPSTF Recommendation Statement: Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults (JAMA, 2018) Fall Prevention Evidence and Workplace Policy Writing: Study GuideFrom: USPSTF Recommendation Statement: Interventions to Prevent Falls in Community-Dwelling Older Adults (JAMA, 2018)

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Fall Prevention Evidence and Policy Writing Practice Test20 questions · pass 70%