Concepedia

Patient falls: acute care nurses’ experiences

Kathy L. Rush, Cathy Robey‐Williams, Laura Michelle Patton, Debra Chamberlain, Heather Bendyk, Teresa N. Sparks

Journal of Clinical Nursing · 2008 · 62 citations · 22 references

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Abstract

Nurses play an important role in fall prevention through knowing the patient as safe but must be supported through the use of a multi-faceted approach extending from the individual nurse to the institutional level.

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‘Best practice’ in focus group research: making sense of different views

Tim Freeman · Journal of Advanced Nursing · 2006 · 489 citations

The importance of ‘knowing the patient’: community nurses’ constructions of quality in providing palliative care

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Hospital falls: development of a predictive model for clinical practice

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