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Running Head: PATIENT FALL RISKS 1

PATIENT FALL RISKS 5

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Patient Fall Risks Education Outline

Introduction

Falling of patients within the hospital infrastructure is a common issue in the hospital. Falling of patients has caused extra expenses. Hospitals are compelled to incur the cost, which becomes an economic burden for them. Developing a risk assessment and prevention plan is the most effective way of preventing incidents. The risk assessment and prevention play should contain the diagnosis, environmental safety, poor vision, and medication.

Objectives

· Effective assessment strategy. They are using a standard approach, such as the Morse Fall Scale to determine the risk factors of patient fall. The risk factors include the age of patients, mental health status, and gender.

· The safety and preventive measures to be disseminated to all level of the hospitals for proper implementation

Rationale

a) Adoption of efficient assessment approach will be a proper intervention for mentally ill patients. However, there should be the development of a personal plan based on identified fall risks that will be applied to different patients. Therefore, they should outline a specific risk of fall that will be used for individual patients.

b) Some virtual and audible cues concerning patient fall should be put in place to identify patients who are at great risk of falls. This will ensure the adoption of adequate safety measures.

Supportive Data

· According to Currie, 2018, around 25,000 adults fall and die in the hospital every year. Over the years, death related to fall is increasing across the aged patients.

· Fall is reported to be among the adverse incidents that occur within hospitals. The research shows that almost 20 per cent of patient fall during medication and about 40 per cent of them are seriously injured.

· The study also revealed that the incident cost hospitals around 16 billion every year to cater for injuries that occur due to patient fall. Moreover, the hospital spends 170 billion dollars annually to cater for death resulting from falls.

Implementation

i. ICSI as a prevention measure. Prevention of patient from falls is a shared responsibility. Therefore, engaging patients and their families in the plan will play a significant role in preventing the incidents (Morris, & O’Riordan, 2017).

ii. Monitoring implementation program. Getting response and feedback from various people on the execution and implementation of the plan will ensure a positive outcome.

Evaluation

a) Receiving the assessment outcome is essential for obtaining factual data and promotes improvement

b) The effectiveness of the program can be determined by the use of qualitative and quantitative data. Qualitative data is obtained by getting the feedback of the staffs about the program. Quantitative data, on the other hand, can be obtaining by conducting a survey and assessing incident reports.

Challenges and Opportunities

a. Falls can be prevented by meeting the needs of the patients. Health care providers should evaluate fall patients to minimize the incident.

b. The health care providers should be trained on the risk factors to prevent falls of the patient within the hospital

c. Physical therapy should be used for specific diagnosis as the patient wait for the actual treatment. This will promote safety and reduces the incident

d. Adoption of the care plan is essential in preventing falls. This measure will address the physical condition of the patients, especially during the evaluation period.

References

Leanne Currie (2018). Fall and Injury Prevention. Retrieved from: www.ncbi.nlm.gov/books/NBK2653/.

Morris, R., & O’Riordan, S. (2017). Prevention of falls in hospital. Clinical Medicine, 17(4), 360.