Importance of Preventing Patients from Falls and Injuries

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Introduction
This assignment is going to discuss about the importance in preventing patients from
sudden falls and also in preventing them from getting injured. This assignment is a reflective
study on the health records of a 75years old patient named, William Taylor. The health records
of the patient showed that he was injured seriously after he suffered a sudden fall and because of
which he could not do any with his right hand. The experiences of the patients help the nurse to
improve the quality of care services (Edvardsson, Watt & Pearce, 2017). The nurses need to
communicate properly with the patient so that the patients share the health issues with them
without any hesitations (Flickinger, et al., 2016).
Discussion
Description
The patient of this case study is an aged man of 75 years of age who had just faced a
sudden fall. The patient admitted that he was suffering from intense pain. His family members
wanted him to take admission in the local hospital but he did not want that and he just wanted to
go and meet with his general practitioner. He was administered with only physiotherapy which
improved his conditions. When the patient was asked whether he was admitted to the hospital in
past or not, he told that yes once he was admitted the hospital for suffering from kidney stones.
The patient described his feelings with agony that the experience of the last time was severe. He
was kept in the waiting room in spite of suffering from such pain. He was kept 11 hours
completely unnoticed. The two themes that can be identified are effective communication and
person centered approach. The nurses must know how to communicate with the patients. It is the
way of the communication that the nurses do with the nurses upon which the nursing therapeutic

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relationships are dependent. The way to communicate with persons of different age groups must
also be different. The aged persons and the children must be spoken politely as they need more
care than the adults. The next theme is the person centered care. As per the information provided
by the patient, he did not received person centered care in the first hospital experience. A patient
who had been suffering from kidney stones must not be kept unnoticed till 11 hours. The way the
nurse communicated with the patient was appropriate in maintaining the professional
relationships. The patient described all his medical records without hesitating anything.
Feelings and thoughts
Before my interaction with the patient I had no idea about how the registered nurses of
the hospital could neglect their duties towards the patients. The nurse who took care of him
deteriorated the reputation of the hospital by committing activities of legal consideration. The
nurses lost their professional identities by committing these activities. The core value of nursing
are empathy, communication, teaching, critical thinking, applied therapeutics, legal and ethical
considerations and professionalism (Butenko, Lockwood & McArthur, 2017). I felt that the
nurses who treated him violated all the nursing values. The experiences of the patients led us to
conclude that the nurses violated the ethical and legal considerations by providing improper
treatment to him. They lacked the ability of critical thinking and applied therapeutics. They
should have provided him proper medicines within proper time to avoid any future
consequences. If I was there in spite of those nurses, I would have taken care of the patient in a
much better way.
Values and beliefs
My feelings are very much affected by the certain nursing values and beliefs. The nursing
values and beliefs which affected me the most are empathy or care, communication, nursing