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Design and Analysis for Fall Detection System Simplification
Published on: April 6, 2020
Nursing Home Registered Nurses' and Licensed Practical Nurses' Knowledge of Causes of Falls
Deanna Gray-Miceli1, Pamela B de Cordova, Giles L Crane
1School of Nursing, Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, Newark (Drs Gray-Miceli and de Cordova); Institute for Health, Health Care Policy and Aging Research, New Brunswick, New Jersey (Dr Gray-Miceli); VISN 8 Patient Safety Center of Inquiry, James A. Haley HSR&D/RR&D Center of Innovation on Disability and Rehabilitation Research VISN, Tampa, Florida (Dr Quigley); and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (Dr Ratcliffe). Mr Crane is a statistical consultant in Princeton, New Jersey.
Abstract:
Reducing falls in nursing homes requires a knowledgeable nursing workforce. To test knowledge, 8 validated vignettes representing multifactorial fall causes were administered to 47 nurses from 3 nursing homes. Although licensed practical nurses scored higher than registered nurses in individual categories of falls, when we computed the average score of all 8 categories between groups of registered nurses and licensed practical nurses, registered nurses scored higher (F = 4.106; P < .05) in identifying 8 causal reasons for older adults to fall.
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