Quality & Patient Safety

Coaching project helps facilities prepare for patient falls

Patient Safety Monitor (Briefings on Patient Safety), September 1, 2009

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Patient falls have been a problem in hospitals for quite some time.
Nancy Donaldson, RN, DNSc, FAAN, clinical professor and director of the Center for Research and Innovation in Patient Care at University of California San Francisco School of Nursing, took the effect of and attention paid to patient falls into account when she began a project to reduce the incidence of patient falls and the severity of fall-related injuries.
Donaldson was able to begin her project with the help of the Collaborative Alliance for Nursing Outcomes Partners for Quality (CALNOC), formerly known as the California Nursing Outcomes Coalition, and information gathered from 77 medical-surgical units from the
33 CALNOC hospitals to serve as project sites.

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