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Bed Alarms and Chair Alarms to Reduce Patients' Falls in A Short-Term Care Facility
Importance of bed alarms and chair alarms
Bed alarms have been taunted as not useful in the modern day healthcare deliveries. Nonetheless, the significance of these facilities always strikes much admiration from different healthcare facilities. Alarms are important as warning gadgets that every section of an organization should consider in its ranks. Hazard preparedness requires that all possible strategies adopted to ensure that there is safety for all the people, and even the property being used within a healthcare facility (Vincent, 2010). Thus, the bed and chair alarms are just material things that have been used to provide avenues for the protection of human health, minimizing and eventually stopping the occurrences of cases like patient fall and strain at the health facilities. In the modern hospitals, communication within and without the healthcare facilities between the patients and the healthcare personnel. Alarms fixed on the bed and some on the chairs used by patients are imperative in boosting communication between the patients and the healthcare providers within the organization (Vincent, 2010). Moreover, healthcare provision includes some undertakings that ensure there is the equitable protection of the interests of the patients while in and out of the hospitals. Patients falling because they have not alerted for assistance as they attempt to make...
As such, the program to install bed alarms and chair alarms was to have a more protective measure that will reduce patient accidents and increase their safety while making movements within the facility. Moreover, these facilities are used to raise concerns in the case that the patients need attention.
Importance of this problem to nursing
Nursing borrows from many fields to maximize on its deliveries. Nurses must understand the use of as such facilities as possible because problems like this of bed and chair alarms can become a great lesson for improvement. The issues surrounding the use of bed and chair alarms are significant to the nurse fraternity. Nurses can afford possible and practical ways of monitoring their patients while at the hospital. Moreover, nurses can create possible avenues through which they can cater for almost all the needs of the patients while in and out of the health facilities. Nursing requirements and ethics are geared towards protection of life where possible, and hence, the lessons from the use of the bed and chair alarms will sum up the need to increase chances of deaths not to occur among patients (Vernikos, 2011).
How the problem affect staff/patients/clients at the facility
The stakeholders within the health facility are affected by the problem of bed and chair alarms. There are regular patient…
References
Vernikos, J. (2011). Sitting Kills, Moving Heals: How Simple Everyday Movement Will Prevent Pain, Illness, And Early Death-- And Exercise Alone Won't. Fresno, Calif: Quill Driver Books
Vincent, C. (2010). Patient Safety. Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell.
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