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From that, a software package develops customized fall prevention interventions to address patients' specific determinants of fall risk. The kit also has bed posters with brief text and an accompanying icon, patient education handouts, and plans of care, all communicating patient-specific alerts to key stakeholders.
Fall prevention. Fall prevention includes any action taken to help reduce the number of accidental falls suffered by susceptible individuals, such as the elderly (idiopathic) and people with neurological (Parkinson's, Multiple sclerosis, stroke survivors, Guillain-Barre, traumatic brain injury, incomplete spinal cord injury) or orthopedic ...
Gerontological nursing is the specialty of nursing pertaining to older adults. [1] Gerontological nurses work in collaboration with older adults, their families, and communities to support healthy aging, maximum functioning, and quality of life. [2] The term gerontological nursing, which replaced the term geriatric nursing in the 1970s, is seen ...
Fall Prevention Center of Excellence. The Fall Prevention Center of Excellence (FPCE) is a source of fall prevention information for older adults, families, caregivers, professionals, service providers, researchers, and policymakers. FPCE's aim is to provide leadership, create new knowledge, improve practices, and develop fall prevention programs.
The Morse Fall Scale (MFS) is a rapid and simple method of assessing a patient ’s likelihood of falling. [1] A large majority of nurses (82.9%) rate the scale as “quick and easy to use,” and 54% estimated that it took less than 3 minutes to rate a patient.
Nursing diagnoses foster the nurse's independent practice (e.g., patient comfort or relief) compared to dependent interventions driven by physician's orders (e.g., medication administration). [ 1 ] Nursing diagnoses are developed based on data obtained during the nursing assessment. A problem-based nursing diagnosis presents a problem response ...
Drop attacks often occur in elderly people; with a majority of documented cases occurring in women. [10][11][12][13] Falls in older adults happen for many reasons, and the goals of health care include preventing any preventable falls and correctly diagnosing any falls that do happen.
A new study has honed in on two surprising new risk factors for Alzheimer’s disease, culminating in a list of 14 things that could increase the likelihood of the common dementia.