Patient Falls in Inpatient Rehabilitation Healthcare Homes

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ASSESSMENT 1 - BLOG
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Impatient rehabilitation healthcare home are referred to the hospitals that are devote to
healthcare service users with various kinds of neurological, musculoskeletal, orthopedic as well
other medical conditions following stabilization of their acute medical problems. One of the
major issues that have been evidenced at the rehab center is the frequent fall of the health care
users. The incident of patient fall is majorly evidenced in healthcare users suffering from stroke.
Patient fall is currently a burning issue in today’s rehab since according the survey conducted in
the year 2017, almost 13 percent of the death of patients has taken place due to massive injury
resulting from sudden fall (Mansfield et al., 2013). The risk of fall is higher in patient who have
undergone stroke or in patients who are suffering from mental illness. Researchers state that the
risk of fall is high among the patients. Almost 37.3 percent of the falls are caused to patients who

have been admitted to the rehab for major complication and stroke rehabilitation. Thus it can be
understood that fall of rehab patient is a major problem at impatient rehabilitation homes.
According to researchers, 57 percent of the falls that takes place are of patients suffering from
mental illness like anxiety disorder, mood disorders, impulse control, addiction disorder and
psychotic disorders (Wasserstein et al., 2013). Patients with the above mentioned mental issues
posses higher chance of developing mobility impairment, muscle weakness as well as loss of
body balance. This in turn makes them highly vulnerable to falls. Due to mental illness as well as
physical disability, patients often get confused and disoriented an unfamiliar environment (Chen
et al., 2015).
The nursing guidelines that are available in accordance to the Australian Commission on
Safety & Quality in Healthcare (ACSQHC) involves proper communication that needs to be
carried out which is an integral part of the service so that it is delivered in a dependable way
(acha.org.au 2018). There are need of visual identification systems which is suggested for the
patients. There is need of hourly rounding by the nurses which serves as useful strategy for the