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Area of Science:

  • Nursing
  • Patient Safety
  • Health Informatics

Background:

  • Hospital patient falls remain a significant public health concern.
  • Effective fall prevention strategies are crucial for patient well-being and healthcare quality.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze nurses' perceptions of patient fall risk factors.
  • To inform the development of an electronic patient decision support system for fall prevention.

Main Methods:

  • A survey was administered to 150 nurses in a Central Florida hospital system.
  • Survey questions identified patient-centered, operational, and critical fall risk factors.
  • Descriptive statistics were used to analyze the 65 returned surveys (43.3% response rate).

Main Results:

  • Nurses perceived both patient-centered and operational factors contribute to fall risks.
  • Key identified risks include lack of appropriate ambulatory devices (90.8%), low nurse staffing (87.7%), and a prior fall history (73.8%).

Conclusions:

  • Nurses' perceptions provide valuable medical terminology for electronic health records.
  • This data can be used to develop integrated systems linking fall risk data to other patient information.
  • Further research is needed to assess the feasibility of electronic health record-based fall prevention systems.