Patient Falls Reflection

Lidan, I appreciate you bring out key underlying issues within your practice demonstrating evidence practice in the situation, identifying your example of patient falls. Patient falls are often due more than one barrier. Staffing ratios (CNA’s, LPN’s, RN’s), nurse to patient acuity, and leadership support directly affect patient outcomes. When I was a float nurse, I had worked night shift and on the cardiac floor I worked on we were not given CNA’s either and occasionally patients with heart monitors, oxygen, chest tubes, external pacers, foley’s and IV’s running would wake up in the middle of the night trying to get up to use the bathroom forgetting all the equipment attached to them. I had up to seven patients on night shift. The safety in