Patient Fall Prevention Case Study

In this study patient fall in the hospital is identified as the evidence. Based on the evidences available, it was decided to implement patient fall prevention strategy in 100 bed hospital. There is lot of literature available for the evidence of fall, reasons of fall, its consequences and strategies to prevent the fall in hospitals. On an average the rate of fall in hospitals is between 3 – 10 per 1000 patients. Out of total fall patients, injury was reported in 30 – 50 % patients and 1- 2% patients experience hip fractures. This fall percentage of the patient is during different activities and at different positions. At the time of ambulation 19 %, when coming out of the bed 11 %, while sitting and standing 9 %, and while using toilet 4 …show more content…
Also use of fall evidence to implement in practice already gave an idea of effective management of fall of patient. For implementation of patient fall strategy all the parameters are well established in different studies. These parameters include screening of patients for risk of fall, intervention for fall and injury prevention. These parameters are applied in this case to implement patient fall prevention strategy in the 100 bed hospital.
Stakeholders involved: Stakeholders involved in this process includes patient, family members, clinicians, nurses, ward boy, pharmacist and other healthcare staff. Other than these mentioned directly involved stakeholders for falls prevention, other stakeholders are top management of the hospital, external consultant to implement the strategy, administrative officer and financial officer of the hospital (Tzeng & Yin, …show more content…
This topic is neglected because most of hospitals didn’t report fall cases anywhere due to safeguard reason. When patient is admitted to the hospital, most of the attention is used to give to the primary condition of the patient. Both family members and healthcare staff concerned about the primary condition of the patient. However, this fall and its subsequent consequences can be very serious and harmful to the patient. This fall can be prevented by the minimal efforts from the family members and healthcare staff. Consequences from this fall are alarming and disturbing the work of every stakeholder of the patient care. This patient fall leads to extra stress on everybody. Moreover, problem of this issue can be taken care very comfortably by taking extra care. Implementation of fall prevention strategy is also a value addition to the hospital, because this implementation fall strategy upgrades value of hospital both in terms of economic and social terms. Recently, lots of studies are supporting the importance of this fall condition in the elderly patients. There is lot of literature available containing causes, effects, consequences and prevention strategies for the fall of the patient (Oliver, Healey, & Haines,