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Education is an essential element of all patient safety programs. In order to help you succeed we provide our education across a broad array of applications and delivery modalities to meet and exceed adult learning needs.
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Publications and Posters
Improved overall falls outcomes that included 15 consecutive months of fall rates below the NDNQI benchmark
Houston Methodist at Vizient
8 hospital systems all
Magnet Designated
Presented at Magnet Conference 2019
HD Nursing supports the accuracy of assessment and individualized care plans
WellSpan at NACNS
8 acute care hospitals
Presented in 2024
Reduced fall rates by 21% and falls with injury rates by 59%
Cost Avoidance equals $4.7 million
SIH at NPIAP
Braden Hester Pressure Injury Prevention Program
Sustained a 47% reduction in PIs system wide
HD Nursing Article Library
Fall Prevention Articles
Validation of the Hester Davis Scale for fall risk assessment in a neurosciences population
Hester, A., Davis, D. (2013).
Psychometric Validation of the Hester Davis Scale for falls risk assessment in a neurosciences population. Journal of Neuroscience Nursing, 45(5). 1-8. Hester, A.L. (2015).
Predictive Model Development and Validation of the Emergency Hester Davis Scale© for Fall Risk Screening
Kientz, S., Hester, A. (2020)
Evaluation of an Education Strategy versus Usual Care to Implement the STEADI Algorithm in Primary Care Clinics in an Academic Medical Center
Urban, K., Wright, P., Hester, A., Curran, Geoffrey., Rojo, M., Tsai, P., (2020)
Preventing injuries from patient falls
This on-line publication explores fall injury prevention strategies and devices.
Hester, A. (2015) Preventing injuries from patient falls. American Nurse Today, 10(7).
Predicting Injurious Falls in the Hospital Setting: Implications for Practice
Hester, A.L., Tsai, P., Rettiganti, M., & Mitchell, A. (2016). Predicting injurious falls in the hospital setting: Implications for practice. American Journal of Nursing, 116(9). 2-9.
Patient and system factors associated with
unassisted and injurious falls in hospitals:
an observational study
Venema, D., Skinner, A.M., Nailon, R., Conley, D., High, R and Jones, K. (2019) Published on line at BMC Geriatrics