November 20th, 2024 – ASPHP Webinar: Why a Mobility Assessment/Screen is Foundational to Safe Mobility including Fall Prevention
[FREE to Members] Presented and recorded live November 20th, 2024 from 2 PM – 3 PM Eastern
Overview
There are several mobility assessment tools that are being widely used in the healthcare setting. Implementing this can be challenging because it requires a significant shift in thinking on behalf of all stakeholders. A key barrier that needs to be overcome is that all stakeholders understand the genuine value of a mobility assessment and link it to fall prevention, caregiver safety and early mobility. This session will enable participants to successfully define THE WHYs of any hands-on Mobility Screening, Assessment, or Tool.
Objectives – After this session, participants will be able to:
- Learner will understand the term Safe Mobility to ensure we provide quality care to all patients while protecting our caregivers.
- Learner will understand why a mobility assessment is an ergonomic assessment of a patient mobility task.
- Learner will understand why a mobility assessment for nurses and screen for support staff is foundational to sustain a Safe Mobility Program.
- Learner will learn how to integrate mobility and fall screenings and how this unlocks a greater understanding of how to safely mobilize our patients.
- Learner will be introduced to complimentary tools for the ambulatory care setting to support this throughout the continuum of care.
Meet the Speaker(s)
Nancy McGann PT, CSPHP, CPPS
Nancy McGann is the Enterprise Manager of Safe Mobility for Intermountain Health where she has worked for 18 years. In this role she leads patient fall prevention, safe patient handling, and patient mobility programming for Intermountain Health’s 33 hospitals, 385 clinics and several post-acute centers. Prior to her current role, she was the System Manager of Caregiver Safety and the System Manager of Ergonomics and Safe Patient Handling and Mobility at SCL Health; now Intermountain Health. She has worked as a therapist and ergonomic consultant in industry and healthcare for the past 35 years. Nancy has been on the board of directors of the Association of Safe Patient Handling Professionals for 5 years and has published and spoken nationally for the past 15 years in this area. Her passion is protecting both caregivers and patients while facilitating mobility to provide the highest quality of care.
