Falls are one of the greatest causes of harm in health care, making it challenging for health care professionals to improve the quality of care and the safety of patient. Falls result in injury, hospitalizations, disability and death, negatively impacting the lives of hundreds of thousands of people. The purpose of this paper is to explore why falls is such an important issue and discuss the roles of nurses in the prevention of fall in the Emergency Room. First, I will give the incidence of falls rate in United States and in the Emergency Department, then we will look at the importance of this issue. Next, I will describe how Emergency Room is like and the patient population who tend to come to the ER for care. Lastly, I will discuss some
