Abstract
dc:description.abstract<p>In the metropolitan hospital’s acute psychiatric unit there has been an increase in falls incidence as well as need for evaluation of the effectiveness of Schmid Fall Risk Assessment tool in its ability to properly identify those at risk. In the last fiscal year there were 45 falls among 28 patients on the acute psychiatric unit.Falls are harmful to the patients and can cause prolonged hospital stays with non-reimbursable costs to the hospital. Falls amongst psychiatric patients is an even greater challenge to address due to the nature of the mental health disease process. This project addresses general costs of falls among psychiatric patients, identifies successful interventions presented in the literature that have addressed falls in psychiatric patients, conducts a root-cause analysis, and lastly offers suggestions on how to decrease falls among this patient population.</p>
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Project/Capstone - Global access
- Year dc:date.available
- 2016
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Rose, Joseph Hunter
Subjects
dc:subject × 6Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Repository record dc:identifier
- https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/467
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:repository.usfca.edu:capstone-1491