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Assessment Of Fall Protocol Use On A Medical-Telemetry Unit, Ashia Mar
Assessment Of Fall Protocol Use On A Medical-Telemetry Unit, Ashia Mar
Master's Projects and Capstones
Purpose: This quality improvement project serves to implement a fall prevention plan to decrease patient falls on the medical-telemetry unit of a large metropolitan hospital.
Background: Patient falls are a persistent nationwide problem in the acute care setting. Between 700,000 and 1,000,000 falls occur in hospital every year and approximately 30-35% of these falls result in injury and 11,000 falls result in death (Health Research & Educational Trust, 2016). Falls always cause harm to the patient, whether it is emotional or physical; but, falls can also cause harm to the providers, family, and organization. Patient injury, additional hospital expenses, and …
Assessment Of Falls On A Medical-Telemetry Unit, Andie Reed
Assessment Of Falls On A Medical-Telemetry Unit, Andie Reed
Master's Projects and Capstones
The purpose of this quality improvement project aimed at reducing falls on a medical-telemetry unit in a large metropolitan Magnet hospital. It was important for the MSN/CNL students to focus on falls because it is not just a concern for this institution, it is a national dilemma that needs to be addressed. Due to the complexities and intricate details of the IRB process, the MSN/CNL students were unable to collect data or further advance their project into the microsystem. Instead, information was attained from the University of San Francisco database to allow the MSN/CNL students to continue with the steps …
Fall Prevention In The Inpatient Setting, Verna Bautista
Fall Prevention In The Inpatient Setting, Verna Bautista
Master's Projects and Capstones
Fall Prevention in the Inpatient Setting Abstract
This project focuses on patient and family fall prevention education through an educational brochure. 4South is a mixed medical/surgical and medical/surgical-telemetry unit, specializing in dialysis and stroke patients. Since January 2017, there has been eight falls on the unit. The project’s objective is to decrease the number of falls in 4South by 50% by the end of the 4th quarter 2017.
An identified weakness was inconsistent patient and family education. The CNL roles of data analyst and clinician were utilized. With the feedback from the Fall Task Force committee, an educational brochure …