Miami Dade College Residential Care Facility Discussion 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. Read      up about falls in a particular environment of your choosing.
2. Develop      a story about a patient: you decide the age, sex, past medical history.
3. Once      you have a background, you can start developing your prevention program      now based on one of your patients/residents (granted if you pick a hospital      there could be any age but remember you want to base this on an elderly      person).
4. Begin      your paper with the place you choose and how it will approach the safety      of the organization, then introduce the patient you have and how that      person will be safer and how they will be screened in the system. You can      then fill in the rest with the program you developed and how it will      affect your patient and the rest of the patients in your facility.