Date of Award
12-6-2010
Document Type
Open Access Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in Nursing (MAN)
Department
Nursing
Abstract
When a patient falls in the hospital it ends up being costly for both the patient and the hospital. Having an awareness of risk factors that lead to an increase in patient falls becomes very important for all nursing staff. However, the contributing factors are not the same for every department in a hospital. The focus of this proposal is the development of a fall assessment that is specific to the emergency department. Age, cognition, elimination, physical mobility, and medications were the risk factors determined to be most important after a review of the literature. Once the fall assessment scale was developed the appropriate nursing interventions were then determined for those that fall into the low risk, moderate risk, and high risk categories.
Identifier
SC 11.MAN.2010.Fauks.CK
Recommended Citation
Fauks, Carissa K., "Thinking Differently: Developing a Fall Risk Assessment for the Emergency Department Setting" (2010). Theses and Graduate Projects. 474.
https://idun.augsburg.edu/etd/474