Risk assessment and fall prevention: practice development in action

Title: Risk assessment and fall prevention: practice development in action
Creator: Dempsey, Jennifer
Relation: Contemporary Nurse Vol. 29, Issue 2, p. 123-134
Relation: http://www.contemporarynurse.com/archives/vol/29/issue/2/article/2370
Publisher: eContent Management
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2008
Description: Amongst the health disciplines, nurses spend the most time with patients providing most of the supervision in care. Therefore, nurses have a primary role to play in contributing to knowledge surrounding the best methods of assessment of risk and prevention of adverse events. According to the Australian Incident Monitoring System (AIMS), the adverse event (38%) most frequent reported in acute hospital settings is patient falls (Evans et al. 1998). The continuing rise in reported rates of falls in the acute medical wards of a tertiary hospital, on the Central Coast of New South Wales(NSW), Australia was the impetus for an action research project aimed at increasing nurses sense Of ownership of their fall prevention practice. This paper specifically reports the findings of a pilot project related to development of a fall risk assessment chart that was one of the cycles of the action research.
Subject: fall prevention; risk assessment; practice development; inpatients
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/40375
Identifier: uon:4593
Identifier: ISSN:1037-6178
Language: eng
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