Fall Prevention on Elderly Patients in a Surgical Ward
FALL PREVENTION ON ELDERLY PATIENTS IN A SURGICAL WARD
There are various reasons why elderly patients in a surgical ward may fall, injuring them even more almost instantly, the issue of patient’s safety and security have been the primary concern of most hospital and clinical institution but elders do fall unpredictably. Elderly patients at the age of 65 falling is a serious problem, medical professionals has realized the needs to develop a plan to purposely prevent such incidents from happening. No matter how careful the clinical person and their staff including the patients’ family some accidents may happen unknowingly due to slipping or tripping and other misbehavior of elderly patients may cause such accidents.
Accidents are bound to happen but it can be measured in numbers by creating a fall management program in the surgical ward especially for the elderly. The research and methodology included in the study of fall management is done independently in every hospital depending on their tools, number of patients and the size of the hospital maybe considered to successfully studying the situation and the outcome of the study so as to give a good conclusion and resolution.
Such studies do not only identify the reason for falling but give a preventive measure that can assure accuracy and sensitivity of patients risk from falling. Patients education proved to be effective by orienting the elderly patients to the surgical ward if possible, if not possible due to disorientation or confusion because of aging then the patients like this one should always have an assistant every now and then, their assistant will be the one to call the nurse or doctor for immediate needs rather than the patient who would try to walk that may cause them to fall.
The most advantageous safety measures are the staffs or nurses should be educated enough to take care of their patients or advising them about what may happen or giving them first hand orientation about their
There are various reasons why elderly patients in a surgical ward may fall, injuring them even more almost instantly, the issue of patient’s safety and security have been the primary concern of most hospital and clinical institution but elders do fall unpredictably. Elderly patients at the age of 65 falling is a serious problem, medical professionals has realized the needs to develop a plan to purposely prevent such incidents from happening. No matter how careful the clinical person and their staff including the patients’ family some accidents may happen unknowingly due to slipping or tripping and other misbehavior of elderly patients may cause such accidents.
Accidents are bound to happen but it can be measured in numbers by creating a fall management program in the surgical ward especially for the elderly. The research and methodology included in the study of fall management is done independently in every hospital depending on their tools, number of patients and the size of the hospital maybe considered to successfully studying the situation and the outcome of the study so as to give a good conclusion and resolution.
Such studies do not only identify the reason for falling but give a preventive measure that can assure accuracy and sensitivity of patients risk from falling. Patients education proved to be effective by orienting the elderly patients to the surgical ward if possible, if not possible due to disorientation or confusion because of aging then the patients like this one should always have an assistant every now and then, their assistant will be the one to call the nurse or doctor for immediate needs rather than the patient who would try to walk that may cause them to fall.
The most advantageous safety measures are the staffs or nurses should be educated enough to take care of their patients or advising them about what may happen or giving them first hand orientation about their