Nurses' response time to call lights and fall occurrences.
نویسندگان
چکیده
Nurses respond to fallers' call lights more quickly than they do to lights initiated by non-fallers. The nurses' responsiveness to call lights could be a compensatory mechanism in responding to the fall prevalence on the unit.
منابع مشابه
Are call light use and response time correlated with inpatient falls and inpatient dissatisfaction?
Inpatients use call lights to seek nurses' assistance. Although implied in patient safety, no studies have analyzed data related to the use of or response time to call lights collected by existing tracking mechanisms monitoring nursing practice. This study used archived hospital data to determine the correlation of the call light use rate and the average call light response time with the fall r...
متن کاملRelationship between call light use and response time and inpatient falls in acute care settings.
AIMS AND OBJECTIVES This exploratory study used archived hospital data to determine whether the call light use rate and the average call light response time contribute to the fall and the injurious fall rates in acute care settings. BACKGROUND Inpatients often use call lights to seek nurses' attention and assistance. Although implied in patient safety, no studies have examined data related to...
متن کاملPerspectives of patients and families about the nature of and reasons for call light use and staff call light response time.
The purpose of this exploratory survey study was to determine the perspectives of patients and family visitors about the reasons for and nature of patient- and family-initiated call lights, call light use, and response time to call lights. Fifty-three percent of participants (n = 63) perceived most of their call lights mattered to their safety. Participants believed answering call lights should...
متن کاملThe contribution of staff call light response time to fall and injurious fall rates: an exploratory study in four US hospitals using archived hospital data
BACKGROUND Fall prevention programs for hospitalized patients have had limited success, and the effect of programs on decreasing total falls and fall-related injuries is still inconclusive. This exploratory multi-hospital study examined the unique contribution of call light response time to predicting total fall rates and injurious fall rates in inpatient acute care settings. The conceptual mod...
متن کاملPerspectives of Nurses on Patients With Limited English Proficiency and Their Call Light Use
Patients use call light systems to initiate communication with their health care team. Little is known how this process is affected when language barriers exist between an English-speaking nurse and a patient with limited English proficiency (LEP). The aims of this study are to describe (a) the perceptions of nurses regarding their communication with patients with LEP, (b) how call lights affec...
متن کاملذخیره در منابع من
با ذخیره ی این منبع در منابع من، دسترسی به آن را برای استفاده های بعدی آسان تر کنید
برای دانلود متن کامل این مقاله و بیش از 32 میلیون مقاله دیگر ابتدا ثبت نام کنید
ثبت ناماگر عضو سایت هستید لطفا وارد حساب کاربری خود شوید
ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Medsurg nursing : official journal of the Academy of Medical-Surgical Nurses
دوره 19 5 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2010