Today?s health care system is continuously changing especially with all the concern with hospital reimbursement and patient enjoyment scores. These days risk management plays a critical usance in the health care setting by identifying likely risks that could possibly affect reimbursement and satisfaction scores though mode such as audits, incident reports, patient and family comments ?good? or ?bad? and patient surveys. Potential risks are analyzed and evaluated and hence a plan or a program is organize to reduce the incidence and severity of accidents and injuries (Sullivan & Decker, 2009). This paper allow discuss a program that the American Nurses Association (ANA), focalize for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), and the Joint Commission all have in common, that is increasing patient safety by preventing patient falls. eventide though patient falls are at measure unavoidable in an acute care setting, the objective is to diminution the number of patient falls and reduce the risk of accidental lesion to the patient resulting from a fall.
In the beginning of December 2008, a Cardiovascular Progressive Care Unit (PCU) in a Banner Health facility had a sentinel event, which is specify by the Joint Commission as an unexpected particular involving death or serious injury (Quigley, Neily, Watson, Wright, & Strobel, 2007).
An senior patient fell, not just once but twice on the same shift on a PCU that was staffed with ane core member and three float nurses who were not well-known(prenominal) with the fall policy. The Patients Morse Risk scale was high and steady no fall precautions were ever initiated. Risk management became convolute after the second fall due to the severity of the injury caused by the fall, which ultimately resulted in the patients? death by causing a head bleed. Because, the author was a Resource psyche (RP) on PCU the day of...
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