Open AccessFACTORS RELATED TO FALLING RISK PREVENTION OF PATIENTS AT RSUD ENCIK MARIYAM DAIK LINGGA IN 2020
Author(s) -
Zurva Ramayana
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
jurnal vokasi keperawatan
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2721-6799
pISSN - 2654-511X
DOI - 10.33369/jvk.v3i2.12880
Subject(s) - falling (accident) , fall prevention , medicine , risk management , risk assessment , harm , nursing , occupational safety and health , test (biology) , environmental health , family medicine , medical emergency , suicide prevention , poison control , psychology , business , social psychology , paleontology , computer security , pathology , computer science , biology , finance
Patients’risk of falling in is an increased susceptibility to falls which can cause physical harm. Fall prevention done by assess, the use of the yellow bracelets for the high risk; and a constant monitoring andevaluating. External factorthat affect the implementation of fall risk prevention is organization and management factor, work environmental, work team, the attendant, assignment, patients, and communication. Observation on the ward the nurse had been giving education the fall risk prevention, somebedrailwere not elevated and the patients’ with highfall risk who do not wear the yellow bracelet. As suchit can be concludethat the nurse had been carrying out assessment of thefall risk but the implementation of the fall prevention stillnot optimal.The purpose of the research is to determine the factors that relate to theact of fall risk prevention by nurses in Encik Mariyam State Hospital of Daik Lingga Year 2019. Research is using the methods of descriptive analytic and across sectionalas the time approach, the sampling method used is total sampling, totaling 32 respondents as sample. The results of the study is analyzed using the Chi-square test and showed thecorrelation between the relating factors such as knowledge, attitudes and motivation of nurses with patients’ risk fallprevention by nurses in Encik Mariyam State Hospitals of DaikLingga Year 2019. Based on the study result to improve the implementation of the risk fall prevention hospital management and the nurse practitioner should improve the knowledge of the fall risk prevention,and improve the motivation in doing the correct fall risk prevention implementation.