Do No Harm: A Multifactorial Approach to Preventing Emergency Department Falls —A Quality Improvement Project

Patient falls in the emergency department are a unique patient safety issue because of the often challenging nature of the environment. As there are a variety of potential causative factors for patient falls in the emergency department, this project employed a multifactorial approach to prevent patient falls in a Level 1 trauma center emergency department (adult only) in an urban tertiary care teaching hospital.

Source: Journal of Emergency Nursing: JEN - June 3, 2020 Category: Nursing Authors: Nicole S. Cook, Brittany J. Komansky, Michael S. Urton Tags: Practice Improvement Source Type: research