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Improving Quality in the Patients‟ Risk of Fall Evaluation through Clinical Supervision

dc.contributor.authorCruz, Sandra
dc.contributor.authorCarvalho, António Luís
dc.contributor.authorLamas, Bárbara
dc.contributor.authorBarbosa, Pedro
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-14T16:33:51Z
dc.date.available2020-09-14T16:33:51Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractIn the hospital settings, falls occur for a wide scope of reasons but most of the time they could be prevented. Therefore, clinical supervision as a strategy to improve and develop nurses’ knowledge and skills is crucial for a better clinical practice. The aims of this quantitative, exploratory and descriptive study were: to characterize the risk of falling of hospitalized patients in a unit of the medicine department; to relate the risk of falling with the patients’ personal attributes; to analyze the compliance between the procedures for monitoring, planning and execution of nursing care; to suggest contributions for a clinical supervision model in nursing to improve nurses’ skills in preventing falls. The population was composed by all the patients of the selected unit who were hospitalized from the 10th of February 2012 until the 9th of April 2012. We had a convenience sample constituted by 132 patients who fitted the inclusion criteria. We collected data through several procedures such as the application of a questionnaire to assess the risk of fall accordingly to the falls protocol implemented in the unit and the parameterization defined in the nursing records system. The results pointed out that 16,7% of patients showed “no risk of fall”, 48,5% had “low risk of fall” and 34,8% had “high risk of fall”. We verify the existence of non-conformities in the implementation of the falls protocol, the application of the Morse Fall Scale, among others. Thus, we recommend some contributions for a clinical supervision model in nursing so nurses can develop their knowledge and skills in preventing patients’ falls.pt_PT
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dc.identifier.citationIJIET 2014 Vol.4(6): 526-530pt_PT
dc.identifier.doi10.7763/IJIET.2014.V4.463pt_PT
dc.identifier.issn2010-3689
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.26/33296
dc.language.isoengpt_PT
dc.peerreviewedyespt_PT
dc.relation.publisherversionhttp://www.ijiet.org/show-49-514-1.htmlpt_PT
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/pt_PT
dc.subjectClinical supervisionpt_PT
dc.subjectRisk of fallpt_PT
dc.subjectPatients’ safetypt_PT
dc.subjectQuality of carept_PT
dc.titleImproving Quality in the Patients‟ Risk of Fall Evaluation through Clinical Supervisionpt_PT
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.endPage530pt_PT
oaire.citation.issue6pt_PT
oaire.citation.startPage526pt_PT
oaire.citation.titleInternational Journal of Information and Education Technologypt_PT
oaire.citation.volume4pt_PT
person.familyNameCruz
person.familyNameRODRIGUES FARIA DE CARVALHO
person.givenNameSandra
person.givenNameANTÓNIO LUÍS
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person.identifier.orcid0000-0001-8400-2799
person.identifier.orcid0000-0003-1017-4787
person.identifier.ridK-5967-2013
person.identifier.scopus-author-id7005359679
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