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EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM

FOR PATIENT FALL


REDUCTION IN LENOX HILL
Name
Institution
Professor
Course
Date
Lenox Hill Hospital

• Is a non-profit, tertiary research


and academic medical center
located in New York City.
• It is in the Upper East Side.
• It is a 450-bed facility.
Lenox Hill Hospital Cont’d

• Regarded as top 50 among 4523 hospitals in combating


diabetes and cardiovascular diseases.
• Mission; “to deliver outstanding health care with compassion
and respect, to promote wellness in our communities and
advance the field of medicine through education and
research” (Lenox Hill, n.d).
• Project, to develop educational program on safe practices
that help to reduce patient falls in the facility.
Personnel Contact

• Name ; Dr. G. P. A
• Title. Orthopedist.
• Role. Involved in the
provision of surgery to
patients with
musculoskeletal and
mobility issues.
Interview Themes

• The discussion involved some of the medical errors and


issues that affect the orthopedic unit.
• The discussion in the meetings pertained the number of
patients that require orthopedic intervention in the facility.
• The discussion also involved the vulnerable people in the
facility who experience falls in Lenox Hill Hospital.
Description of the meetings

• Patient falls is a critical topic in the healthcare industry


because it affects elderly people because of their age and
reduced mobility.
• Elderly patients are at risk of fatal falls.
• Every year, over 684,000 individuals experience falls
(Appeadu & Bordoni, 2021).
• Combatting patient falls requires the integration of
technology, policies and inter-professional collaborations.
Patient fall prevention discussion

• The discussion with G involved the use of bedside alarms in


the facility.
• The ability to effectively collaborate with nurses on the use of
effective patient safety rounds can help to reduce the
occurrence of these events.
• Education of healthcare providers to identify high-risk
patients can help to strategize effective intervention for this
group and ensure that they are at reduced risk of falls.
Fall prevention education
Foundational competencies and
patient fall
i) Perform effectively on inter-
professional teams
• Inter-professional collaborations between
nurses, physicians, orthopedists and
pharmacists can help to improve patient
supervision.
• Collaboration will help structure of care
plan that reduces medical complications
that place the patient under risk of falls.
• King et al. (2018) state that collaboration
between healthcare providers and the
team can help to improve the effectiveness
of the existent technology in terms of
delivery of safe care.
ii) Communicate audience-
appropriate public health
content.
• The delivery of the educational presentation will be done to
be effective in terms of providing patient safety information.
• The information is delivered conveniently and easily for the
patients to understand.
• The education of nurses on the use of some of the patient fall
reduction policies will be done through increased engagement
and in healthcare language.
iii) Application of principles of
leadership, governance and
management
• Leadership strategies help to improve the
delivery of the project and ensure that
conflicts are reduced in the facility.
• The concept of leadership and management
of the project revolves around the structure
and motivate the team to execute the
project effectively.
• The reduction of patient falls require the
ability of leaders that can communicate
effectively with other stakeholders (Fridman,
2019).
iv) Assess population needs that
affect community health

• The development of patient fall reduction strategies for the


facility require the need to assess vulnerable populations.
• People who are vulnerable helps to reduce the burden of care
and helps to adhere to ethics of care.
v) Explain basic principles and tools of
budget and resource management
• Budget is essential in healthcare facilities.
• It helps to ensure that available resources are properly utilized.
• Budgeting helps to ensure that proper planning is structured in terms
of acquisition of resources and technology (Appeadu & Bordoni, 2021).
• Budgeting tools will help to ensure that the execution of the project
does not put too much pressure on the organization.
• Effective budget help to ensure that the available interventions are
evaluated for the viability in the organization.
References

• Appeadu, M., & Bordoni, B. (2021). Falls and Fall Prevention In The Elderly. StatPearls.
• Fridman, V. (2019). Redesigning a fall prevention program in acute care: building on
evidence. Clinics in geriatric medicine, 35(2), 265-271.
• King, B., Pecanac, K., Krupp, A., Liebzeit, D., & Mahoney, J. (2018). Impact of fall
prevention on nurses and care of fall risk patients. The Gerontologist, 58(2), 331-340.
• Lenox Hill Hospital. (n.d). Lenox Hill Hospital Northwell Health About Us. Retrieved from
https://lenoxhill.northwell.edu/about#:~:text=Our%20mission%20is%20to%20deliver,m
edicine%20through%20education%20and%20research
.

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