This Month...

Join Angie Filipiak, MSN, RN, NEA-BC to explore how doll therapy can improve safety outcomes for cognitively impaired patients while reducing reliance on more restrictive interventions.

Drawing on years of implementation experience and research across multiple hospitals, Angie Filipiak demonstrates how this simple, non-pharmacologic approach can reduce agitation, impulsivity, restraint use, safety sitter hours, PRN antipsychotic medication use, workplace violence events, and fall risk.

Through compelling patient stories and real-world data, you will learn how doll therapy supports emotional regulation and behavioral stabilization, helping patients feel calmer, safer, and more connected in unfamiliar healthcare environments.

Angie Filipiak also highlights the role of fall mats as an important injury reduction strategy and shares practical guidance for implementing these interventions to improve outcomes for patients, families, and care teams.

Key Points of Interest

  • Reducing Agitation Through Doll Therapy

    Explore how doll therapy can help reduce agitation, restlessness, impulsivity, and other neuropsychiatric symptoms in patients with cognitive impairment.

  • Improving Safety Outcomes

    Learn how hospitals have used doll therapy to reduce falls, restraint use, safety sitter hours, PRN antipsychotic medication use, and workplace violence events.

  • Preventing Harm
    from Falls

    Discover how doll therapy and fall mats can work together to reduce fall risk and minimize injury when falls occur.

Presenters

  • Angie Filipiak, MSN, RN, NEA-BC



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