Prevention of Fall Amongst Older People

Running head: PREVENTION OF FALL AMONGST OLDER PEOPLE
Prevention of fall amongst older people
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PREVENTION OF FALL AMONGST OLDER PEOPLE
NURS2006 ASSIGNMENT 5
Clinical Practice Improvement Project Report
Student Name, FAN and ID:
Jasakamalkaur Kaur0436 2198883
Project Title:
Falls incidence reduction and mitigation of resultant health complications
in a population group of senior citizens residing under care facilities.
Project Aim:
To decrease the incidence of falls amidst 230 Australian citizens residing under care facilities
with the aid of interventions directed at multifactorial and single platforms for a duration of
seven months.
Relevance of Clinical Governance to your project
Clinical governance is defined as the set of frame work that aid in maintaining superior care
and facilitate the quality of the care provided by the health care professionals within the
clinical setting (Van Zwanenberg& Edwards, 2018). Clinical governance generally obtained
by the extracting data from the evidence based practices, health care professionals, evaluation
of the data relevant to the issues, proper management of the issues and policies to reduce
incidence.
Clinical governance highly relevant to fall and subsequent injury due to risk factor in elder
people in Australia. It is also relevant to the identify risk factor such as the prevalence of fatal
injuries pertaining to the head and facial regions of the concerned patient, along with the
threat of partial or complete loss of mobility..Five different pillars are relevant for managing
injuries resulting from falls in patients such as clinical performance, evidence based care and
effectiveness, clinical risk and professional management along with consumer values (Tuan,
2016). In this context, the sudden fall considered as one of the major issues in elder people of
Australia and older people experiences the physical injury and psychological distress due to
ended up in hospital.. So, fall prevention in older individuals is related to the clinical risk
pillar of clinical governance since it focuses on the safety of every older individual and
residential care(Tuan, 2016).
Evidence that the issue / problem is worth solving:

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PREVENTION OF FALL AMONGST OLDER PEOPLE
Fall is one of the major cause of disability and death in older people , especially
women.According to the statistics of south Australia, 2017, approximately 110 people of 65
years or more than 65 years were admitted to the hospital due to the hip fracture.Australian
Bureau of Statistics reported that approximately 1200 deaths post fall
were registered in 2008 and the risk was increased every year by 2% due
to risk factors (Vlaeyen et al., 2015).Global report of WHO also suggested that 1.3
million patient over the year experienced death due to sudden fall in residential care and each
fall cost average approximately $ 1000(El-Khoury et al., 2015).
In residential or hospital setting, most of the sudden fall of older individuals is unintended
and the consequences are physical injury, long term limb impairment, emotional distress,
social isolation, impairment of daily activity and death. However, the causes of sudden fall
are preventable and can be avoided by collaborations of different health care members and
certain precautions.
Key Stakeholders:
Excellent teamwork is obtained by involvement of staffs in the direct care of the patient and
resolving the issues successfully. Involvement of multidisciplinary team members is essential
for implementation of falls prevention strategies. Australian commission on the safety and
quality in health care listed number of worker in health care setting for preventing the issue.
1. medical practitioners:
Medical practitioners are responsible for preventing sudden fall in diverse ways such as
proper interventions and diagnosis (Arena et al., 2015). They also actively participate in
implementing the strategy.
2. Health manager: health care mangers involve in the proper assessment and actively
participated in the implementing standard fall prevention strategies.
3. Registered nurses: nurses are the most trusted health care since they provide the direct care
to the professionals. They communicate with the patient and the family members to provide
adequate information and patient history (Forsythe et al., 2016).
4.Allied health professionals:
Allied health professionals are present for managing falland various plans for assessing