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Walden University Nursing Leadership Quality Meetings Capstone Discussion

 

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The measurable patient-centered practice problem related to safety in the practice setting that I will discuss in my Capstone Paper is the increase in falls on acute inpatient units. Falls have increased in patients that are hospitalized, and the risk of injury increases with each fall. I selected falls due to the significant changes that patients can become injured and or suffer fractures. Falls can be prevented with a review of incidences and tracking data on when falls occur and the circumstances. Falls on acute inpatient units can often happen. However, they can be eliminated if correct interventions are in place to contain fall occurrences (Hudson, S. A. (2020).

My facility holds monthly nursing leadership quality meetings, and data is shared regarding safety improvements throughout the hospital. Nursing leadership promotes a quality forum for nurses to utilize frontline staff to develop improvement opportunities and action plans to prevent falls. Falls are among the most recent safety concerns, with an increase in patient falls that could have been prevented, which greatly impacted my decision to choose falls as the practice problem.

The nursing unit that experienced the increase in falls was able to implement a fall rounding program to increase patient rounding and ensure that each bed has a wander guard alarm. Including patient, rounding occurrences can assist with frontline staff ownership of quality improvement measures to reduce the risk of falls as well as increase patient safety to reduce a financial loss (Nuckols, T. K., Needleman, J., Grogan, T. R., Liang, L.-J., Worobel-Luk, P., Anderson, L., Czypinski, L., Coles, C., & Walsh, C. M. (2017). During FY 21, the percentage of falls on inpatient acute units increased by 10% compared to 5% during FY 20. The data available in my practice area is found in a shared group database that highlights monthly falls and a percentage goal of 0 occurrences of falls.