Question: Your facility needs to reduce the number of patient falls that occur in order to meet patient safety standards, such as the National Patient Safety Goals evaluated by the Joint Commission.

Conduct research about patient safety and preventing patient falls in the acute care setting.

Based on your findings, create a single guideline or procedure document (no more than 4-pages long) that your organization could implement to prevent falls for the general patient population. How would you extend your guideline/procedure to include these additional populations?

1. The elderly and disabled

2. Patients undergoing same-day surgery