Fuld Focus Webinar Series

This series offers free monthly learning opportunities focused on evidence-based practice and implementation science. Each session highlights practical strategies, emerging evidence, and real-world applications to strengthen evidence-based practice, improve implementation, and support sustainable practice change across healthcare settings. Live attendees may earn nursing continuing education (CE) credit.

This webinar series occurs on the last Thursday of each month from noon to 1 p.m. ET

De-Implementing Bed and Chair Alarms to Improve Outcomes 

Sept. 24
Noon to 1 p.m.

Bed and chair alarms are widely used for fall prevention, yet evidence supporting their effectiveness is limited. Join this webinar to learn how one organization successfully eliminated bed and chair alarms while improving fall-related outcomes using implementation science, stakeholder engagement and evidence-based strategies.
 

Speakers

Courtney Burnett, MSW, BSN,  RN
Inova Health Systems 

Courtney Burnett is an experienced bedside nurse specializing in oncology and trauma. Before becoming an RN, she earned a Master of Social Work and worked as a medical social worker, developing extensive experience supporting patients and families through challenging healthcare experiences. Burnett is also certified in pain management, with a strong interest in compassionate, evidence-based approaches to pain and symptom management.  For the past two years, Burnett has led efforts to implement the removal of bed and chair alarms, supporting a practice change focused on patient mobility, autonomy, safety and the reduction of unnecessary restrictive practices. 

Michelle Viars, BSN, RN, GERO-BC, ONC, PMGT-BC
Inova Health Systems 

Michelle Viars is an RN unit supervisor on the Joint Replacement Unit at Inova Mount Vernon Hospital, where she has served for 32 years. Throughout her career, she has been passionate about using evidence to guide nursing practice and improve patient outcomes. Most recently, Viars applied implementation science principles to a project focused on the de-implementation of bed alarms. She is committed to sharing knowledge, strengthening nurses’ clinical judgment and encouraging the use of evidence-based practice to advance patient care.

Objectives

• describe key implementation science components: barriers, facilitators and stakeholder identification, and how these elements contribute to positive outcomes and long-term sustainability
• identify two stakeholder engagement approaches that promote the adoption and dissemination of evidence-based fall prevention practices, including not using bed exit alarms.
• identify strategies for collaborating with informatics and technology stakeholders to develop and evaluate quality metrics for adherence to hourly rounding and alarm use

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