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I’m glad I stumbled across your post. I’m in my first 6 months working in an in-patient psychiatric hospital. As part of my new grad project I have chosen to focus on the same thing, psych specific fall assessments. I also landed on both the WSFRAT and EPFRAT. My current location uses the Schmid Fall Risk Assessment that takes into account mental status and medications. The problem with the other scales are that they require a lot more math. They are specific to the different types of medications so that will require education for using the scales. It’s a tough situation because we want simplicity that way we can keep the nurses using them but also specific enough to catch falls. Let me know what you ended up using.