Broward Community College Nursing Fall Prevention Program Paper

Development of a Fall Prevention Program

Safety
for elders is always an overriding concern for healthcare delivery
agents since without a safe environment the elder will be injured and
therefore their health will decline. Considering the environment and the
lack of safety could potentially result in a fall. Fall prevention
programs are always being developed for the safety of the elder in
different environments. The following assignment will enlighten you as
to the elements of a good, evidence-based fall prevention program.

Instructions:

1. You
   will be taking information that is already established and through the
   use of critical thinking, you will develop a fall prevention program for
   a facility in South Florida (Miami). The name of the Fall Prevention
   Program will be developed by yourself.
2. Furthermore, you will develop by yourself:
   1. how to institute the program
   2. the goals and interventions (such as resources needed, training required and how much it will cost)
   3. a marketing plan
   4. an estimated cost
3. Due
   to the need to integrate the program into the corporate structure of
   the institution, you will also need to plan how to present it to the
   Administrative team with items such as initial rollout, benefit to the
   institution and the cost which should be nominal so that you will be
   able to sell it to the A-Team.

The following information should be included:

• The name of the program? (maybe include an acronym
• What type of facility? (eg. hospital, nursing home, etc.)
• Describe a fictitious patient that will experience the specific intrinsic and
• extrinsic risk factors as a geriatric syndrome of falls. (PMH: Make up what you need to for the report)
• Name at least three (3) instruments or evaluations specific to the patient
• Give fictitious results that you believe that you will see with your fictitious
• patient. (with results of instruments or tests)
• What will you need to initiate the program? Anything from forms to personnel,
• training, specialty items, etc
• Risks: intrinsic/extrinsic the factors relevant to this particular situation
• How will you institute the program you have developed

Patient: Angel is 76 year old female, came in for altered Mental status and chronic UTI. History of hip fracture, Left mastectomy and hypertension

References

Soliman, Y., Meyer, R., & Baum, N. (2016). Falls in the Elderly Secondary to Urinary Symptoms. Reviews in Urology, 18(1), 28–32. https://doi.org/10.3909/riu0686

Leggett, C., Jess, J., & McNamara, R. (2017). A Multi-disciplinary approach to falls prevention in the elderly. International Journal of Integrated Care (IJIC), 17, 1–3. https://doi.org/10.5334/ijic.3512

Shanthi, G. S. (2016). Assessment of falls in elderly and its prevention. Journal of the Indian Academy of Geriatrics, 12(3), 89.

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