The application of fall risk factor assessment
Yan Liu · Chinese Nursing Management · 2009
Objective:To strengthen safe management of inpatients and prevent fall in order to increase the nursing safety.Methods:Inpatients received nursing assessment predictably and dynamically by usinginpatient fall risk factor assessment chart.Inpatients with scores more than 1 received safe measures to prevent fall.Results:By assessing the past medical history and present history, nurses recognized, assessed, and treated fall risk factors predictably and promptly.The fall events avoided and inpatients' safety was safeguarded.Conclusion:Assessing inpatients' physiological and psychological state, communicating with patients and their families could discover fall risk factors.It could increase nurses' safe prevention awareness and nursing safety, and guarantee inpatients' safety.