NICHE conference: Broward Health reduction efforts fall 40%

NICHE conference: Broward Health reduction efforts fall 40%:

They worried about a drop rate of 3.2 per 1,000 patient days, nurses Broward Health Imperial Point recognized an opportunity to improve care, did fall prevention a priority and reduced the rate of fall 40% by 1000 1.97 in a year, according to a presentation at the annual Nurses 2015 to improve care Healthsystem Elders Conference in Orlando, Florida.

"It was huge and amazing, and that nurses who were open to the intervention, realized that there was a ditch and wanted to put forward," said Kimberly Cerri, MSN, RN, CPHQ, CMSRN, a specialist in management quality in the 200-bed hospital in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. With the full support of C-level executives, an interdisciplinary team used Six Sigma, it conducted a root cause analysis, surveyed nurses on all shifts, created a process map, incident reports analyzed and developed a plan. They found half of patients has decreased in the bathroom or toilet activities and 20% of patients who fell were not identified as hazardous. Incorrect assessments, lack of identification of patients at risk, according to the nursing inconsistent on when to implement the protocol for the prevention of falls, inadequate education, lack of participation of patients and their family prevention efforts, inconsistent monitoring of patients in the bathroom alarm function and reads the variable