Gombar Ella N, Smith-Stoner Marilyn, Mitchell-Mattera Susan D
Kaiser Permanente Metro Home Health, Hospice, Home Based Palliative Care, and Inpatient Palliative Care, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
Home Healthc Nurse. 2011 Jan;29(1):26-32; quiz 33-4. doi: 10.1097/NHH.0b013e3181fe4351.
Preventing and managing falls is essential to the safe and effective care of homebound patients. Although the causes of such falls have frequently been discussed, the role of home healthcare agency organizational culture in preventing and managing falls has not been explored. This article discusses our home healthcare agency's fall management program and presents 10 strategies to help other agencies prevent falls among their patients and manage patient care after a fall.
预防和管理跌倒对于居家患者的安全有效护理至关重要。尽管此类跌倒的原因经常被讨论，但家庭医疗保健机构的组织文化在预防和管理跌倒方面的作用尚未得到探讨。本文讨论了我们家庭医疗保健机构的跌倒管理计划，并提出了10项策略，以帮助其他机构预防患者跌倒并在跌倒后管理患者护理。
