Obtaining and documenting patient histories Protecting patients in examination and treatment areas Maintaining a safe environment Creating safer living spaces for home care clients Documenting ...

The tool, provided by Bay Pines (Fla.) VA Medical Center, helps identify at-risk patients for falls and outlines recommendations for the nursing management of at-risk patients. The toolkit also ...

Accessed 20 February 2024. Saver, C. (2022). Role of Technology in Falls Prevention: A Patient-centered Approach [White paper]. TIDI Products, LLC.

Celebrating Fall Prevention at UT Southwestern: In 2018, William P. Clements Jr. University Hospital and Zale Lipshy Pavilion both implemented the HD Nursing Fall Prevention Program.

SEATTLE, April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- AONE 2008 Annual Meeting, Booth #837 -- GetWellNetwork, Inc., the innovator and leading provider of Interactive Patient Care (IPC) solutions, today announced the ...

Task force floats new fall prevention guidelines The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force proposed new recommendations on interventions to prevent falls in older adults Dec. 5.

Elsewhere across the government are Safety Culture Commitments for the Veterans Health Administration around patient fall prevention and data system modernization, slated for 2025, and the ...

The Leapfrog Group released its fall 2022 Hospital Safety Grade on Nov. 16, assigning "A" through "F" letter grades to nearly 3,000 general acute care hospitals in the U.S. for patient safety ...

PLYMOUTH MEETING, Pa., Nov. 2, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- ECRI, the nation's largest independent nonprofit patient safety organization (PSO), names AdventHealth Zephyrhills and AdventHealth Dade City ...

Years ago, Nancy Reagan suffered a rather public slip and fall, reminding us of the seriousness of these common occurrences with the elderly. It is with this reminder that I would like to share some ...