Nursing Study: Preventing Falls and Harms of Falls

Running Head: PREVENTING FALLS AND HARMS OF FALLS
October 20
2018
Reflection

PREVENTING FALLS AND HARMS OF FALLS
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Preventing falls and harms of falls
Falls cause serious issues at any age, but in the case of older people, these are more dangerous as
they are more likely to fractures (Palvanen, et al., 2014). In medical science, falls are the
accidental incidents which may cause a serious harm to human health. Therefore, falls must be
prevented at the topmost priority (Tricco, et al., 2017). Harms and other consequences of falls
can be described with the help of a case study. In this discussion, there is a case study of 75-year-
old William who had experienced a fall and shared his experience. This discussion is supported
by theories like resource dependency, institutional, and population ecology theory.
Description: Falls of any kind cause a serious harm to the body and sometimes may cause
permanent damages as well (Liu, You, Lu, & Chen, 2015). In the given case study, Mr. William
Taylor shared his experience about all the case scenario of his injuries he got with an accidental
fall. He said that this falls occurred when he was returning back home from his routine morning
walk. He tripped over a price of concrete and got several injuries. In this accident, he flopped
into a gutter which took off his sin from his nose and chin. Also, his right shoulder got wrecked
and his left elbow skin was peeled off. In the treatment context of this fall, his experience was
very bad with public hospitals as he described his past experience. In his past experience of a
public hospital, he had to wait for a long time period of 11b hours before he got to see by a
practitioner.
I think Mr. William’s experience justifies his decision to not to visit a public hospital for the
treatment of his accidental fall. In my opinion, his falls were very serious and he got some
serious injuries as well. In such situations, I think visiting a doctor would be beneficial but the
past experience like how he had to wait for 11 hours before got seen by a doctor, made me think
he took a right decision. I believe that if we do not get any response at some place then we
should avoid such actions if we can handle it with more comfort.
Feelings: In my opinion, Mr. William felt more comfortable being in pain at home rather than
visiting a public hospital as he knew that he will have to wait over there too. I think he believes
in being comfort zone as much as possible. I think experiences he had in past made him stay at
home for the whole night and in the morning as well. I would have done the same if I had such
experience. But at some point, I think he could visit the hospital in a hope that he might get a
quick treatment. This would have helped him to take some preventing actions responding to his
injuries.
Values and beliefs
I believe in caring older people first as it is hard for them to wait for treatment and being in pain
for a longer time, in this case scenario the patient had wait for many hours before meeting to a