The data were analyzed using the phenomenological method developed by Colaizzi.#Before hip fracture, none of the patients had received fall prevention education or perceived its necessity; however, they recognized its necessity retrospectively. Participants described the causes of falls as carelessness, ...
In addition, these patients would receive education on fall prevention strategies and their utility, an explanation on what makes them more susceptible to falls and how they can try to avoid a potential fall. Nurses would also accompany patients the entire time they visited the toilet—as well ...
Based on a valid fall risk assessment scale completed by a nurse, the FPTK software tailored fall prevention interventions to address patients' specific determinants of fall risk. The FPTK produced bed posters composed of brief text with an accompanying icon, patient education handouts, and ...
Because patients with difficulties with basic or instrumental activities of daily living (ADLs) are at increased risk of falling, assessment of the patient's functional status should be completed in detail. Assessment of basic ADLs should include bathing, toileting, dressing, feeding, grooming, and ...
摘要: A fall prevention agreement was developed in a cardiac progressive care unit to engage patients and families on admission as partners in fall prevention. The postimplementation of the fall prevention agreement showed significant decreases in falls on this unit....
In addition to alarm warnings, it is more important to prevent patients from falling in clinical nursing, via the environment, education, and other means, including handrails and alarm buttons available everywhere in the ward. But many patients, as well as their families who accompany them, ...
The impact of implementing a fall prevention educational session for community‐dwelling physical therapy patientscommunity‐dwelling adultsfall preventionfall educationHealth Belief Modelpatient educationphysical therapyAimThe aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of a fall prevention educational ...
Nowadays, it becomes of paramount societal importance to support many frail-prone groups in our society (elderly, patients with neurodegenerative diseases,
The sensitivity of growth hormone secretion to medical treatment in acromegalic patients: influence of age and sex We investigated the relationship between age, sex, pituitary tumour volume, serum GH, PRL and IGF-I levels with the responsiveness of GH to TRH, bromocript... AJVD Lely,AG Harris...
For now, employability was the most important. The students’ conversation fits into a larger alarming narrative about the role of the humanities in higher education. In a time of dizzying technological achievement and of rapid scientific innovation, sceptics of the humanities may question the ...