Description: Your fall prevention training didn’t prepare you for oncology. The Morse Scale doesn’t account for chemo-induced peripheral neuropathy. The Hendrich and The CDC – STEADI Initiative do not flag the patient on high-dose dexamethasone whose hips are quietly weakening. Standard protocols miss the executive function deficits that make a “low-risk” patient unable to remember to lock the brakes or call for help. And when an oncology patient falls, the stakes are different. Treatment gets delayed. Fractures happen in bones you didn’t know were compromised. A patient on a curative path shifts to palliative. One fall can chang everything. You’ve seen it. You’ve felt the frustration of knowing something was off but not having the tools to catch it – or the interventions to address it. This training changes that. Shelly Denes, PT, has trained thousands of clinicians in evidence-based fall prevention – and spent 30+ years on the front lines of neuro-rehab. Now she’s bringing that expertise to the population that needs it most.

Objectives: 1.Identify cancer-specific fall risk factors that directly compromise functional mobility. 2.Apply CDC STEADI algorithm updates and AGS Beers Criteria to detect high-risk medication combinations that impair balance, gait, and safe functional performance. 3.Utilize targeted bedside assessments to evaluate proximal muscle weakness, peripheral neuropathy, and executive function impairments that impact safe mobility and ADL performance. 4.Select individualized interventions – including strengthening protocols, assistive devices, and environmental modifications- matched to the root cause of fall risk to preserve or restore functional independence. 5.Utilize fatigue management and sleep hygiene strategies that improve endurance and safe participation in functional tasks. 6. Choose patient and family education techniques for safe transfers, fall recovery, and landing strategies to reduce injury risk and support continued functional mobility.

Presenter(s): Shelly Denes, PT, C/NDT, CFPS, CGCP

Status: Active

Activity Difficulty Level: Advanced

Domains:

• Assessment
• Evaluation and Diagnosis
• Therapeutic Intervention

Format: Virtual Asynchronous - On Demand

Dual Credentials and JA: Occupational Therapy Professionals, Physical Therapy Professionals, Physician Assistants, Physicians

Start Date & Time: 10/28/2026 02:39 PM CDT

Cost: $199.99

CEUs: 6