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Falls Prevention and Risk Asessment in Clinical Practice for Nurses

   

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FALLS PREVENTION AND RISKASSESSMENT IN CLINICAL PRACTICEFOR NURSES

ANNOTATION OF ARTICLE 1Evaluating the use of a targeted multiple intervention strategy in reducing patient falls in anacute care hospital: a randomized controlled trialAim:The aim of the present article is to evaluate an impact of the targeted intervention tactic inorder to decline a total number of patients who fall in the hospital like acute care. With the helpof this research, suffered people from this issue are to be controlled randomized up to the greaterextent in the acute care. Design:The present research is based on an experimental design where scholar firstly applies themultiple intervention strategies and then identify its impact. When talking about the method ofdata collection then the primary tool is considered in which by taking the support ofquestionnaire information collected. Apart from this, it is analysed with the help of inductiveapproach where general description about the patient falls is given1. After that, specific study orresearch is conducted by the investigator.Data Information / Sample:1Ang, Emily, Siti Zubaidah Mordiffi, and Hwee Bee Wong. "Evaluating the use of atargeted multiple intervention strategy in reducing patient falls in an acute care hospital: arandomized controlled trial." Journal of advanced nursing. 67. no. 9 (2011): 1984-1992.1

To make analysis and carry out research about the influences of multiple interventiontechniques on falls prevention in patients, the sample size is determined at this stage. Afterdetermining sample, the required data are collected and then analysed that the tactic had eitherwhether positive impact or negative on patients. Moreover, in the current research paper sampleof 910 people is taken and then go for further analysis. Key findings or results:From the present article of patient falls it can be analysed that, at the workplace of theacute hospital multiple intervention strategies have the highly significant role up to greater level.With the help of this strategy, issue of prevention of falls inthe patients of the acute hospital iseliminated up to the better level. Moreover, total 912 participants are taken in the control and 910participants used from the group of interventions. Further, it can be found from the analysis that,the rate of a confidence interval (CI) of patient falls is 1.5% and 0.4% under the group of controland intervention respectively. Apart from this, through the part of risk assessment, it can beascertained that CI of risk is approximately 0.29%. On the basis of such collected data andanalysis, it can be clearly said that, interventions strategies which are targeted at multiple havinga positive impact on the patient falls.Due to this, it can be said that the acute care unit or hospital must formulate new as wellas innovative kind of intervention strategies2. Once the updates and innovative methods are2Emily ang, Siti Zubaidah Mordiffi and Hwee Bee Wong, 2011. Evaluating the use of atargeted multiple intervention strategy in reducing patient falls in an acute care hospital: arandomized controlled trial. [Online]. Available through:<http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2648.2011.05646.x/abstract>[Accessed on 10th August 2017].2

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