Hourly Rounding Coupled with the 4 Ps

dc.contributor.author	Jamison, Edith M.
dc.date.accessioned	2023-06-22T23:22:32Z
dc.date.available	2023-06-22T23:22:32Z
dc.date.issued	2022-08
dc.description	Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Nursing Practice	en_US
dc.description.abstract	One out of every three adults over age 65 falls annually in the United States (U.S.). This number increases two-fold by age 80 (Hornbrook et al., 1994). Fall injuries account for 2.8 million emergency visits, and 800,000 hospital stays in the U. S. annually (Ganz & Latham, 2020). Despite the existing fall prevention protocols at the Veterans Healthcare Administration (VHA) Community Living Center (CLC), the average number of falls exceeds the national standard for falls in similar facilities. The project objective was to bring the fall rate of the VHA CLC to within or below the national benchmark by initiating and implementing the evidence-based hourly rounding process with the 4 P’s (potty, pain, position, and possession). The fall prevention program focuses on veterans’ safety and well-being in short-term and long-term care environments in collaboration with the frontline nursing staff. By implementing this evidence-based process into already existing fall prevention measures, the CLC was able to decrease falls by fifty percent.	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12087/181
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.subject	Nursing	en_US
dc.title	Hourly Rounding Coupled with the 4 Ps	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US

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