Impact of Fall Prevention and care of fall risk patients on Nurses.

This study aims to reduce the negative outcomes associated with falls to nurses and hospitals. The study focuses on fall risk patients, mostly older adults over 60. Various initiatives have been put across by regulating bodies and organizations in the health care sector that advocate for fall prevention by directing hospitals to identify fall events and ensuring that they are zero falls in the hospitals, reducing negative health outcomes among patients, in turn, reducing readmission rates (King et al., 2018). Nurses are tasked with taking care of patients; thus, they are at the forefront of ensuring fall prevention. The research design of this study is a qualitative study that will employ grounded dimensional analysis (King et al., 2018). Through the analysis, the study will determine the experiences of nurses with fall prevention in various healthcare institutions and how the experiences have influenced them in their care provision to fall-risk patients.

The sample size of this study is 27 registered nurses and certified healthcare practitioners involved in providing care to fall-risk patients. The study will employ open, axial, and coding techniques in data analysis (King et al., 2018). A conceptual model will help establish the effect of intense communication from the healthcare administration to prevent falls on nurses and the initiatives that the nurses partake in to help address the issue (King et al., 2018). The model also looks at the value of the healthcare administration's intense communication with nurses, fall risk patients, and the hospital in general.

The research will receive funding from the Center for Medicare and Medicaid, reviewing the study results. The study is to be conducted in 3 months. From there, they can determine the consequences of the intense communication on nurses, older adult patients, and the hospital regarding the fall prevention and care of fall-risk patients. In addition, the results from this study will be used to determine the unplanned aftermath of fall prevention communication on nurses and older patients. Finally, the results can also be used for future reference by other scholars.

References

King, B., Pecanac, K., Krupp, A., Liebzeit, D., & Mahoney, J. (2018). Impact of fall prevention on nurses and care of fall risk patients. The Gerontologist, 58(2), 331-340. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1093/geront/gnw156