Suzanne, Great presentation! Your VOPP was very informative. Falls can happen for so many different reasons. Such as side effects of medications, cluttered floors in patients rooms, mental status, poor lighting or a patient trying to get to the bathroom to toilet themselves. Some falls can be prevented. In the elderly patients their status is already fragile, to add a fall and possible broken hip. This would prolong a hospital stay and their all around health status. Thank you for bringing awareness regarding falls.
I enjoyed your presentation on fall, fall is one thing that has to be prevented in older adult but unfortunately sometimes it is impossible.
Most nursing homes are now trying to do away with alarm in my area, we want to focus more on rounding and proactively providing care. In my facility chair alarm is mostly use for residents that can self propel in the wheel chair.
I don’t understand why nursing homes are not using alarms? I understand that they want staff to be rounding more, etc. But unfortunately staff can’t be everywhere at once. An alarm lets us know that someone needs help if we are not near them. I think they are definitely beneficial!
Thank you for sharing such a great information about Fall risk in patients with dementia. I am also working in fall prevention but just in the elderly and this came as an additional information that I wanted to know. In effect, the type of patients that you handle are at risk than other elderly patients. Cognitive impairments such as dementia (and in higher proportion Alzheimer patients), and psychiatric conditions put patients at higher risk for falling; additionally, I can understand that many of your patient use psychotropic medications on regular basis and this along with environmental factors expose them to the risk for fall-related injuries
Katty
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Suzanne, Great presentation! Your VOPP was very informative. Falls can happen for so many different reasons. Such as side effects of medications, cluttered floors in patients rooms, mental status, poor lighting or a patient trying to get to the bathroom to toilet themselves. Some falls can be prevented. In the elderly patients their status is already fragile, to add a fall and possible broken hip. This would prolong a hospital stay and their all around health status. Thank you for bringing awareness regarding falls.
I enjoyed your presentation on fall, fall is one thing that has to be prevented in older adult but unfortunately sometimes it is impossible.
Most nursing homes are now trying to do away with alarm in my area, we want to focus more on rounding and proactively providing care. In my facility chair alarm is mostly use for residents that can self propel in the wheel chair.
I don’t understand why nursing homes are not using alarms? I understand that they want staff to be rounding more, etc. But unfortunately staff can’t be everywhere at once. An alarm lets us know that someone needs help if we are not near them. I think they are definitely beneficial!
Thank you for sharing such a great information about Fall risk in patients with dementia. I am also working in fall prevention but just in the elderly and this came as an additional information that I wanted to know. In effect, the type of patients that you handle are at risk than other elderly patients. Cognitive impairments such as dementia (and in higher proportion Alzheimer patients), and psychiatric conditions put patients at higher risk for falling; additionally, I can understand that many of your patient use psychotropic medications on regular basis and this along with environmental factors expose them to the risk for fall-related injuries
Katty