Falls: A Retrospective Study Summary
Introduction
The purpose of this discussion is to describe the data collection method(s) utilized by Windia Wilbert (2013) entitled: The Effectiveness Of A Fall Prevention/Management Program In Reducing Patient Falls: A Retrospective Study. The study was undertaken to analyze if there was a correlation between the nursing staff assessment and identification of patients at risk for falls and the nursing compliance with the hospital’s policy on fall prevention program. There were four research questions that the study sought to answer: (1) What were the hospital policy on fall prevention and the compliance of the nursing staff with the policy? (2) What were the common interventions that the nursing staff implemented to reduce patients’ falls? (3) What were the common patients’ risk factors for falling? And (4) what were some of the common medications and preventive measures identified for patients who were at risk for falling?
The study design utilized the retrospective review of the patients’ charts, e.g., patients’ electronic medical record, post fall analysis form, and incident report. As described by Vassar and Holzmann (2013) retrospective chart review is a type of research design that uses pre-recorded and patient-centered data to answer the research questions. One advantage of the …show more content…
As the policy indicated, the nursing staff has to initiate a plan of care to reduce falls in patients who were identified to be at risk for falling. At the same time, patients at risk for fall should be identified with visual signs, e.g., falling star on the wristband, outside patients’ door, on the front cover of patients’ medical record (Wilbert, 2013). In addition, common interventions to reduce falls were identified and to be implemented as protective
The purpose of this discussion is to describe the data collection method(s) utilized by Windia Wilbert (2013) entitled: The Effectiveness Of A Fall Prevention/Management Program In Reducing Patient Falls: A Retrospective Study. The study was undertaken to analyze if there was a correlation between the nursing staff assessment and identification of patients at risk for falls and the nursing compliance with the hospital’s policy on fall prevention program. There were four research questions that the study sought to answer: (1) What were the hospital policy on fall prevention and the compliance of the nursing staff with the policy? (2) What were the common interventions that the nursing staff implemented to reduce patients’ falls? (3) What were the common patients’ risk factors for falling? And (4) what were some of the common medications and preventive measures identified for patients who were at risk for falling?
The study design utilized the retrospective review of the patients’ charts, e.g., patients’ electronic medical record, post fall analysis form, and incident report. As described by Vassar and Holzmann (2013) retrospective chart review is a type of research design that uses pre-recorded and patient-centered data to answer the research questions. One advantage of the …show more content…
As the policy indicated, the nursing staff has to initiate a plan of care to reduce falls in patients who were identified to be at risk for falling. At the same time, patients at risk for fall should be identified with visual signs, e.g., falling star on the wristband, outside patients’ door, on the front cover of patients’ medical record (Wilbert, 2013). In addition, common interventions to reduce falls were identified and to be implemented as protective