Decreasing Falls With Injury Rates
| Autor: | Tonya Johnson, Jessie Reich, Courtney Maloney, Kathryn Farrell, Deborah Drayton |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
030504 nursing business.industry Nursing support Certification Pennsylvania Injury rate Unit (housing) 03 medical and health sciences Patient safety 0302 clinical medicine Nursing Nursing Assistants Surveys and Questionnaires Acute care Humans Medicine Accidental Falls Patient Safety 030212 general & internal medicine Program Development 0305 other medical science business General Nursing Quality of Health Care |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Nursing Care Quality. 32:40-46 |
| ISSN: | 1057-3631 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/ncq.0000000000000206 |
| Popis: | Falls with injury are a persistent patient safety challenge in the acute care setting. This article describes the creation and implementation of a Certified Falls Prevention Advocate (CFPA) program on a medical-surgical unit. The program created standardization of nursing support staff involvement in falls prevention and engaged them as members of the interdisciplinary team. The CFPA program was an important element in the unit's improvement in falls with injury rates. The mean falls with injury rate decreased from 1.115 to 0.178 per 1000 patient-days over a 1-year period. |
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