Outcomes of Adding Patient and Family Engagement Education to Fall Prevention Bundled Interventions.
Nurses strive to reduce risk and ensure patient safety from falls in health care systems. Patients and their families are able to take a more active role in reducing falls. The focus of this article is on the use of bundled fall prevention interventions highlighted by a patient/family engagement educational video. The implementation of this quality improvement intervention across 2 different patient populations was successful in achieving unit benchmarks.
Indiana University School of Nursing, Columbus and Indianapolis (Drs Opsahl and Ebright); Franciscan St. Francis Health, Indianapolis, Indiana (Dr Cangany); and Franciscan St. Francis Health, Mooresville, Indiana (Dr Lowder and Mss Scott and Shaner).
Angela G
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Opsahl
Patricia
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Ebright
Marty
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Cangany
Melissa
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Lowder
Dawn
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Scott
Tamara
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Shaner
D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000517:prevention & control*; D005190:Family; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D007297:Inpatients; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital / Q000193:education; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D063868:Patient Outcome Assessment; D061214:Patient Safety / Q000592:standards; D058996:Quality Improvement; D018570:Risk Assessment; D017751:Safety Management; D014743:Videotape Recording