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2020

Perioperative, Operating Room and Surgical Nursing

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Decreasing The Fall Rate On A Medical Surgical Unit With An Enhanced Fall Algorithm In The Electronic Medical Record, Natali Sokolovski Dec 2020

Decreasing The Fall Rate On A Medical Surgical Unit With An Enhanced Fall Algorithm In The Electronic Medical Record, Natali Sokolovski

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This paper summarizes the quality improvement falls prevention project on a Medical-Surgical unit with an Enhanced Fall Algorithm incorporated in the Electronic Medical Record conducted by two Clinical Nurse Leader students of the University of San Francisco.

This project addresses the patient falls events in a San Francisco-Bay Area Hospital on a Medical-Surgical unit. The aim is to decrease the rate of falls on a Medical-Surgical microsystem unit by 50% with an Enhanced Fall Algorithm incorporated into the Electronic Medical Record by June 2021. The patient population consists of general medical surgical patients where many of the patients have an …