Fall Prevention Protocol in Acute Care Setting

<p>Purpose:</p> <p>Purpose: The purpose of this 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 injury and 11,000 falls result in death (Health Research & Educational Trust, 2016). Falls harm patients, families, and providers. They are also a high cost, as many insurance companies will not reimburse care when a patient falls. As a hospital organization it is important to ensure funds are going to the appropriate places. Currently the metropolitan hospital had an increase of 6 falls from 2016 fiscal year to 2017 fiscal year. Through data itemization it appears the current protocol and procedures is not meeting the need to decrease and diminish falls. </p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Science in Nursing (MSN)

Level thesis:degree_level

Project/Capstone - Global access

Year dc:date.available

2017

Author dc:creator

• Di Angelo, Allie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Debra Martinez
• Mike Bueno

• fall
• fall prevention
• Critical Care Nursing
• Other Nursing

Repository record dc:identifier

https://repository.usfca.edu/capstone/705

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.usfca.edu:capstone-1734