Assignment

Smart Bed to Enhance Patient safety

Proposed Approach to help in addressing one cause

or negative outcome of the issue

• Every year, about 700,000 to 1 million clients falls are reported in the US healthcare facilities

• It is also reported that 2 percent of hospitalized patients fall at least one time in each stay.

• Approximately one in every four cases of falls leads to injuries with 10 percent leading to severe injuries (LeLaurin

& Shorr, 2019).

• The inpatient falls are also linked to physical and economic burdens to clients.

• The proposed intervention is aimed at promoting quality is improving the safety of the clients receiving healthcare services.

• Smart beds are among the intervention helping improve patient safety and comfort throughout their lengthy hospital stay.

• Smart beds refer to mattresses that use sensors and technology to help collect information about how a person sleeps (Choi et al., 2019).

Nursing Issues and their Significance to Nursing

References

• Smart bed achieves their roles in the realization of patient safety through the use of the sensor placed under the mattresses

• The information collected is used by the bed to modify and ensure improvement in sleep automatically

• It provides information to patients on how they should sleep and tips on improving their sleep.

• The smart bed helps collect patient movement, weight, and breathing data.

• The beds have real-time monitoring of the crucial data about patents' status.

• The beds help detect the abnormal breathing patterns of these patients and take part in the regulation until the breathing normalizes

• When connected to other medical devices it helps conduct the x-ray analysis and measurement of blood pressure (Devoodnia & Etemad, 2019).

• They are connected to an electronic medical record (EMR) network to help deliver patient information.

• Assisting nurses to monitor patient statistics like their movement and weight changes (Ghersi et al., 2018).

• Safety is a major concern in most the healthcare facilities

• Falls are common healthcare issues or healthcare-acquired conditions reported within the facilities.

• The problem is linked to aging, the patient's conditions, and the type of medicines taken.

• It is also linked to poor balance which leads to the unsteadiness of the feet.

• The patient’s falls lead to increased rates of readmission

• It also leads to healthcare costs due to long stays in the hospital

• This call for the adoption of an evidence-based intervention to help in addressing the issue

• The approach to address the issue will help in improving nursing satisfaction in service delivery

• Nurses will report low cases of falls

• Advancement in medical technology helps in taking the burden off these nurses (Hessels et al., 2019).

Adequate and appropriate data to support the strategy

• TheChoi, Y. K., Lazar, A., Demiris, G., & Thompson, H. J. (2019). Emerging smart home technologies to facilitate engaging with aging. Journal of gerontological nursing, 45(12), 41-48.

• Ghersi, I., Mariño, M., & Miralles, M. T. (2018). Smart medical beds in patient-care environments of the twenty-first century: A state-of-art survey. BMC medical informatics and decision making,

18(63), 1-12.

• Hessels, A., Paliwal, M., Weaver, S. H., Siddiqui, D., & Wurmser, T. A. (2019). Impact of patient safety culture on missed nursing care and adverse patient events. Journal of nursing care quality,

34(4), 287.

• LeLaurin, J. H., & Shorr, R. I. (2019). Preventing falls in hospitalized patients: state of the science. Clinics in geriatric medicine, 35(2), 273-283. Doi: 10.1016/j.cger.2019.01.007

• Davoodnia, V., & Etemad, A. (2019, October). Identity and posture recognition in smart beds with deep multitask learning. In 2019 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man and

Cybernetics (SMC) (pp. 3054-3059). IEEE.