Nursing Rounding Evaluation Summary

The findings were presented objectively. Their findings presented that there were lower fall risks during the structured nursing rounds implementation period compared to the baseline that was taken (Tucker et al., 2011). However, the differences were not by a large amount. Also it was hypothesized that the structured nursing rounds would be continued after the study was completed, but this did not happen after the study was finished. Also it was founded that another hypothesis was not supported in the fact that fall rates was not higher among people who were at a higher risk for falls (Tucker et al., 2011). When it came to documentation by the staff, the more documentation that was done did not lower patient fall rates, which in return that hypothesis was not supported. When it came to nurses feedback they stated that structure nursing round implementation had a lack of clarity, the documentation added more work to what the staff already had to do, the staff wanted to know why their unit, and that they did not want to add this to among all the other health care changes that was taking place (Tucker et al., 2011). The researcher did provide study limitations. The limitations the researcher stated was that the study did not include a random assignment or
The researchers stated that more in depth research is needed to evaluate the effects of structured nursing rounding interventions. Also that other strategy may need to be added besides just hourly rounding to decrease falls in acute care settings. Another area that needed to be added to advance this research is a better documentation system and health information technology to increase the reliability of the documentation and intervention (Tucker et al., 2011). Also a more in depth examination of what the hourly rounds entails need to be implemented to improve patient care. There are no generalizations