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Question

You are a student in a Master of Nursing program and this semester you have to develop a change project in your practicum setting. The practicum setting you chose is a skilled nursing/long term care facility. You did research and noted the facility had an increase in falls in the longterm care and shortterm residents. The facility has safety intrventions in place, hourly rounding and keeping items within reach. Despite these interventions your facility continues to have an increase in fall rates including falls that result in major and minor injuries. You decided to implement a new fall intervention, a fall focus group where residents that are high risk for falls and residents who had multiple falls can attend during the peak hours, 12 PM until 9pm. Those are the hours that have the most falls. The group will have a recreation aid who will have structured activities to keep the residents busy during the peak hours. There will also be a cna that will atend to the resident's care needs like assist them with eating and toileting. To accomplish the implementation of the fall focus group you must collaborate with the recreation department and the and nusing staff to.