NHS-FPX8040 – 21st-Century Health Care Leadership

The aim is to reduce patient falls and injuries in the acute care nursing unit. Hourly rounding checklists make the nursing team responsive to events in the clinical environment that could expose patients to falls and injuries. The intervention is appropriate for day and night shifts based on its structured nature and ability to promote patient-centered communication. In this case, the nursing staff, patients, and families interact to ensure the best outcomes. Adopting the hourly rounding checklist could enable White Plains to reduce patient falls by a significant margin within 10 weeks. In the end, patients and the facility benefit from reduced costs, shorter hospital stays, and reduced risk of readmissions. Thus, the organization can enhance its credibility by improving patient satisfaction.

The project focuses on adopting hourly rounding checklists to reduce patient falls and injuries. The tool allows the nursing team to proactively address sensitive patient needs, including increased vigilance to reduce the risk of nonfatal injuries and trauma-related incidences across the clinical setting. Hourly rounding checklists facilitate the accurate and complete assessment of environmental risks and hazards including the effectiveness of toileting assistance to reduce falls in patients admitted to critical care settings. As such, the nurse leaders will initiate an interdisciplinary process to enable everyone to understand the relevance of hourly rounding checklists and their roles in offering the desired assistance at all times. The Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) will guide the team to understand scenarios involving patient falls and injuries and the collective efforts required to maintain zero incidences in the future.