Existing Organizational Resources

Existing Organizational Resources

Existing Organizational Resources

Current hospital personnel would be creating this safer system for preventing falls, so no additional costs would pose a problem with that. There may be the need to hire an instructor for a few informational sessions for the staff to review safety practices and how it pertains to medication administration. Aside from standard fall risk precautions mentioned previously, the hospital system should purchase non-skid socks, identification tag bracelets that indicate the patient is a fall risk, and clearer signage so patients are not confused. Bed and chair alarms will continue to be used and are usually part of the hospital’s standard costs. If there is room in the budget, video monitoring may prove extremely helpful in discovering what may have caused a fall in that instance and how best to avoid it in the future. It could prove very beneficial to hire more staff, like “sitters”, to be with patients who are at the highest risk of falling. (Greeley et al. 2020)