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Factors influencing patient safety: |
Developmental stage, individual lifestyle, mobility, sensory/communication impairment, and lack of safety awareness (could be due to cognitive issue) |
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Four categories or risk in health care agency: |
Falls, patient inherent accidents, procedure related accidents, equipment related accidents. |
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Patient inherent accidents: |
Behavior or characteristics of patient. |
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Procedure related accidents: |
Have to do with surgery or placing an IV, something went wrong because we were not paying attention to safety. |
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Equipment related accidents: |
Ignored an alarm, sometimes its malfunction, sometimes equipment gets piled up in hallways, etc. |
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Fall reduction interventions: |
Hourly rounding, color coded socks, signs, arm bands, nonslip socks, call lights, mobility aids. |
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5p's of hourly rounding are: |
Pain, potty, position, possessions, plan |
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What are the two categories of restraints? |
Chemical or physical |
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Risks with using restraints |
Pressure ulcers, pneumonia, constipation, incontinence, restricted breathing or circulation. |
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Psychosocial risks with restraints: |
Humiliation and agitation |
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What is required for restraints? |
Physician order, alternatives tried first for instance distractions. Patient must have tried to prevent therapy such has pulling out IV. Or causing harm to self or others. |
