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Showing 1 to 20 of 92 for “"Fall Prevention"”.
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Fall Prevention
<p>Fall Prevention Abstract</p> <p><strong>Background: </strong>According to the CDC, the medical cost for falls was approximately $30 billion in 2012. When a patient falls, and gets serious injury, these costs could sum up to $14,056 per patient. As a result, hospital stays per patient are …
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Fall Prevention in Palliative Care: Improving Fall Prevention and Management at Point of Admission
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p>By nature falls begin to occur as part of the aging process and are a major source of morbidity and mortality in the elderly patients. Despite the extra blanket of care the palliative team creates for it’s patients, fall incidents are continuing to plague this …
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FALL PREVENTION IN THE ED
<p>This project focuses on the prevention of patient falls in the emergency department (ED). Kaiser Santa Clara Hospital is an academic medical facility in the heart of Silicon Valley. The facility has a 46 bed ED with an average daily census of 220, specializing in stroke, pediatrics, heart, and …
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N653 Fall Prevention Final Project
<p>N653 Fall Prevention Final Project</p> <p>by Samuel K. Clark, RN</p> <p>This project was done with patient safety in mind through the use of the most current EBP available.</p>
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Fall Prevention Through Proactive Toileting
… paper will summarize the quality improvement falls prevention project conducted by a University of San Francisco Clinical Nurse Leader student. Falls in the hospital setting are an ongoing problem in our healthcare system as they have great physical and financial impacts (Salamon, Victory, & …
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Fall Prevention in the Inpatient Setting
<p>Fall Prevention in the Inpatient Setting Abstract</p> <p>This project focuses on patient and family fall prevention education through an educational brochure. 4South is a mixed medical/surgical and medical/surgical-telemetry unit, specializing in dialysis and stroke patients. Since January 2017, …
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Fall Prevention: Responder 5 Bed Connectors
<p>This paper explores falls, a sentinel event plaguing hospitals in the United States and internationally. Falls are a major contributor to negative patient outcomes and a source of financial strain for hospitals. One particular fall prevention intervention, Responder 5 bed alarms, was explored. A …
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Fall Prevention in Acute Psychiatric Patients
<p>Patient falls have been an issue in hospital settings for many years. Patient falls not only lead to increased costs for the hospital, but affects the safety and care for patients. Many studies have assessed potential, contributable factors leading to falls, fall risk assessment tools, and fall …
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Fall Prevention Protocol in Acute Care Setting
… quality improvement project is to implement a falls intervention to improve falls on the Medical Telemetry unit in the large metropolitan hospital.</p> <p>Background: Between 700,000 and 1,000,000 falls occur in hospitals every year. Furthermore, approximately 30-35% of these falls result in …
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Hospital Fall Prevention Using Interactive Patient Care Technology
The impact of patient engagement in hospital fall prevention using interactive patient care technology is not known. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the engagement of hospitalized patients in a computer-based, interactive patient care fall prevention pathway, comprised of a …
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Fall Prevention Among Older Adults Living in the Community
Increasing awareness of falls and fall hazards can improve health outcomes reducing falls and fall injuries. From a public health perspective, reducing falls translates into improved health-related quality of life and decreased health care spending. To ensure this increased awareness, separate fall …
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Interdisciplinary Team Approach in Fall Prevention: Physician Perspective Focus
<p>An in-hospital fall is a devastating event for patients and care providers resulting in injuries, physiological and psychological patient declines, and sometimes deaths. Furthermore, fall related costs greatly increase hospitals’ expenses and cause massive distress to caregivers and health …
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Analysis of a shuffling detection device for fall prevention
According to the World Health Organization, falls are the second leading cause of accidental or unintentional injury deaths worldwide. In order to address this issue from a fall prevention perspective, I began developing a footwear device to give feedback to the user on their walking. In this …
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The Xcel Sleeve: Fall Prevention Through Digital Strength Training
In America, a person has a 1 in 3 chance of falling each year once they reach the age of 65. When someone falls, they risk bodily injury. There are products available to help people when they fall, but they are only effective once a person reaches a point where they are at risk of falling. In order …
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A Retrospective Study of Fall Prevention Programs in Geriatric Nursing Facilities
… between geriatric nursing facilities with a Fall Prevention Program and geriatric nursing facilities without a Fall Prevention Program on the Total Staff Present, Medicaid reimbursement, proprietary for-profit geriatric nursing facility ownership, physical and chemical restraint use, and …
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Care Helpers'Attitude toward the Elderly, Knowledge and Practices of Fall Prevention
본 연구는 노인요양시설에 근무하는 요양보호사의 노인에 대한 태도, 낙상관련 지식과 낙상예방행위와의 관계를 파악하여 요양보호사를 대상으로 낙상예방 교육프로그램을 만드는데 기초자료를 제공하고자 시도된 서술적 조사연구이다. 본 연구는 경기도 성남시와 용인시 3개소의 노인요양시설에서 근무하는 요양보호사 186명을 대상으로, 2015년 9월 1일부터 9월 15일까지 자료 수집을 하였다. 연구의 도구는 노인에 대한 태도는 Sanders 등(1984)이 개발하고 임영신(2002)이 수정·보완한 도구를 사용하였고, 낙상관련 지식은 …
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The effects of fall prevention exercise program on the community-dwelling elderly
우리나라 노인의 평균수명이 연장됨에 따라 낙상 발생률이 점차 높아지고 있다. 이러한 낙상사고는 가정 내에 거주하는 재가노인에서의 경우 많으며, 노인의 사고사로 인한 사망 중 주요사망 원인으로 대두되고 있다. 노인의 낙상은 대부분 신체손상을 초래하고 낙상에 대한 공포와 같은 심리적 위축을 일으켜 이차적인 활동제한 및 낙상위험을 증폭시키게 한다. 본 연구는 재가노인을 대상으로 낙상예방 운동프로그램을 적용하고 운동이 신체구성요소, 활동체력, 허약수준에 미치는 효과를 확인하고자 하였다. 이는 가정에서 많이 발생하는 낙상사고의 위험에 …
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The Examination of N'Balance, a Community -Based Fall Prevention for Older Adults
… was to examine N'Balance(c), a community-based fall prevention intervention for older adults, exploring physical functioning and balance self-efficacy and leisure self-efficacy. Research suggests that fall prevention interventions with multifactorial, multidimensional interventions should …
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Effectiveness of a Fall Prevention Educational Program for Long-Term Care Nursing Staff
… the impact of an educational intervention on falls in a long-term care facility by (a) measuring staff knowledge of fall prevention, (b) behavioral assessment of fall prevention approaches, and (c) evaluation of fall rates and fall injury rates. The study used convenience sampling of nursing …
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