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which strategy helps improve communication in a falls prevention program?

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• use visual reminders, such as stickers and color-coded items, to identify patients who are at risk of falling
• communicate about falls risks to clinical staff only.
• encourage each department to develop its own communication plan.
• obtain feedback about the programs effectiveness from hospital leaders only.

Explanation:

Analyze the communication strategies in fall prevention

• Option 1: Visual reminders (stickers, color-coded items) provide immediate, standardized, and non-verbal communication of fall risk to all staff members, patients, and families.
• Option 2: Restricting communication to clinical staff only is unsafe, as non-clinical staff (e.g., dietary, transport, environmental services) also interact with patients and need to know their fall risk.
• Option 3: Allowing each department to develop its own plan leads to fragmentation and inconsistency rather than standardized, effective communication.
• Option 4: Obtaining feedback from hospital leaders only ignores the critical frontline staff who execute the program daily.

Answer:

• Use visual reminders, such as stickers and color-coded items, to identify patients who are at risk of falling (Correct answer)
• Communicate about falls risks to clinical staff only.
• Encourage each department to develop its own communication plan.
• Obtain feedback about the program's effectiveness from hospital leaders only.