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Sum six Morse domains: fall history, secondary diagnosis, ambulatory aid, IV / heparin lock, gait, and mental status. The tool adds the standard teaching weights and maps totals to low (0–24), moderate (25–44), and high (45+) labels for classroom practice. This is not a replacement for your hospital’s risk form, not environmental rounding, and not legal documentation. Pair with other medical calculators.
Last updated: April 20, 2026
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Moderate fall risk (Morse-style, educational)
40
Morse total (0–125+ possible)
Fall hx
0
2° dx
15
Aid
15
IV
0
Gait
10
Mental
0
Moderate fall risk (25–44). Reinforce mobility plans, toileting schedules, lighting, non-skid footwear, and clear pathways; align with your unit’s fall-prevention bundle.
Risk bands here: 0–24 low, 25–44 moderate, 45+ high (common teaching). Your employer may use different thresholds or extra items.
Designed for rapid nursing admission assessment and repeat scoring after transfers, procedures, or new medications in teaching scenarios.
Prior falls are one of the strongest predictors of future falls; the scale reflects that with the highest single-domain weight in the original framework.
Distinguishes supervised bed rest, structured devices, and furniture-walking patterns to prompt gait and therapy referrals in education.
Weak or impaired gait and altered judgment about abilities add points aligned with bedside observation drills—not automated gait lab data.
Reflects lines that can snag and complexity that may correlate with acute illness in classic teaching versions of the scale.
Units may add timed “Up & Go” testing or specialty scales. This page stays focused on Morse arithmetic for fundamentals courses.
Default demo: secondary diagnosis (15) + cane / walker (15) + weak gait (10) → total 40 → moderate fall risk on this page.
0–24 low · 25–44 moderate · 45+ high (Morse-style cutoffs used in many textbooks).
Each answer maps to a fixed point contribution. The engine sums the six contributions and compares the total to the teaching thresholds shown on the page. No machine learning or patient-specific data beyond what you select is used.
If every highest-weight option were selected, the sum would be 25 + 15 + 30 + 20 + 20 + 15 = 125. Real patients rarely max every domain; the scale is intentionally steep in places to drive prevention teaching.
For deficit-accumulation geriatric context, see our frailty index calculator.
Get a Custom Calculator for Your PlatformFall history yes (25), secondary diagnosis yes (15), furniture walking (30), IV yes (20), impaired gait (20), forgets limitations (15). Total = 125 → high on this page—used in class to show why multifactorial prevention (environment, pharmacy, PT/OT, nursing ratios) matters beyond a single checkbox.
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