Knowledge of Nurses about Prevention of Patient Fall Risk in Inpatient Room of Private Hospital in Medan

Abstract

Fall risk is an increase in susceptibility to falls, it can cause physical harm. Falls is an incident that causes a person suddenly lie downor accidentally sprawl on the floor. Providing safety to the patient is very important, and to realize patient’s safety especially to reduce injury from the effect of fall risk, the first step required is prevention based of knowledge. The study design was descriptive with Proportional random sampling technique. Research purposes to determine the level of nurses knowledge about prevention the risk of patients fall. An instrument used in this study is a questionnaire. The Population in this study were nurse workers in inpatient ward of Private Hospital in Medan. Samples were 150 nurse workers. The result showed that 57.3% respondents belong to the category of good level knowledge. The results of this study can be an input for the hospital to improving nurse knowledge through the procurement of seminars on prevention of risk patients fall.