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Stumble Solutions: An Interprofessional Fall Prevention Education Series

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Stumble Solutions: An Interprofessional Fall Prevention Education Series

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Haley Matuszek PP-OTD Innovation Project Final Presentation

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Simulated Fall Recovery: Major Takeaways of what to do in the event of a fall

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Medication side effects that can increase the risk for falls

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Haley recently joined University of New Hampshire's OT department as their Academic Fieldwork Coordinator in April 2022. She continues to practice at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital with clinical expertise in treating individuals with limb loss, burn injuries, polytrauma, and spinal surgeries. Her scholarly interests include interprofessional fall prevention education, OT's role in advancing JEDI in the Health Professions, and OT's role in quality improvement initiatives.

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Increasing Interprofessional Fall Prevention Discharge Education will lead to improvements in patient's transition back into the community, increasing their self-efficacy and fall prevention knowledge at discharge. This will ultimately decrease falls at discharge and decrease re-admissions.

Current Status: Recently completed the first quality improvement case report using these innovative ingredients.

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Project Aim: This project will implement an interprofessional fall prevention education program to increase patients' fall prevention knowledge and self-efficacy as well as decrease fall risk, falls at discharge, and re-admissions.

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There is a lack of interdisciplinary collaboration in providing fall risk assessment and fall prevention education for cognitively intact adults age 65 and older who are discharged from inpatient rehabilitation facilities. This likely contributes to decreased older adult awareness of fall prevention strategies and leads to preventable falls.

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Haley Matuszek, MS, OTR/L
Academic Fieldwork Coordinator / Clinical Assistant Professor
Occupational Therapy Department
University of New Hampshire
Proud UNH Alumna, Class of 2017

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Addressing Environmental Risk Factors to decrease the risk for falls

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Interprofessionally developed videos highlighting OT's role, PT's role, and the medical team's role in addressing fall prevention discharge education.

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haley.matuszek@unh.edu
hmatuszek@mghihp.edu
Connect with me on LinkedIn: Haley Matuszek
https://www.linkedin.com/in/haley-matuszek-587041154/