Nursing Home Registered Nurses' and Licensed Practical Nurses' Knowledge of Causes of Falls

Deanna Gray-Miceli; Pamela B. de Cordova; Giles L. Crane; Patricia Quigley; Sarah J. Ratcliffe

doi:10.7282/T38054HV

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Nursing Home Registered Nurses' and Licensed Practical Nurses' Knowledge of Causes of Falls

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Nursing Home Registered Nurses' and Licensed Practical Nurses' Knowledge of Causes of Falls

Deanna Gray-Miceli, Pamela B. de Cordova, Giles L. Crane, Patricia Quigley and Sarah J. Ratcliffe

Journal of Nursing Care Quality, Vol.31(2), pp.153-160

2015

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https://doi.org/10.7282/T38054HV

Abstract

Falls (Accidents)--Prevention

Staff nurses' knowledge

Nursing workforce

Nursing--Supply and demand

Reducing falls in nursing homes (NHs) requires a knowledgeable nursing workforce. To test knowledge, 8 validated vignettes, representing multifactorial fall causes were administered to 47 nurses from 3 NHs. Although Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) scored higher than Registered Nurses in individual categories of falls, when we computed the average score of all 8 categories between groups of RNs’ versus LPNs’ we found RNs scored higher (F value =4.106; p<0.05) in identifying 8 causal reasons for older adults to fall.

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Title: Subtitle: Nursing Home Registered Nurses' and Licensed Practical Nurses' Knowledge of Causes of Falls
Creators: Deanna Gray-Miceli (Author) - School of Nursing (Newark and New Brunswick), Rutgers University
Pamela B. de Cordova (Author) - School of Nursing (Newark and New Brunswick), Rutgers University
Giles L. Crane (Author)
Patricia Quigley (Author) - James A. Haley HSR&D/RR&D Center of Innovation on Disability and Rehabilitation Research VISN
Sarah J. Ratcliffe (Author) - University of Pennsylvania
Publication Details: Journal of Nursing Care Quality, Vol.31(2), pp.153-160
Date published: 2015
Publisher: Lippincott, Williams and Wilkins
Number of pages: 16 p.
Academic Unit: School of Nursing; School of Nursing
Language: English
Resource Type: Accepted manuscript
Comment: This is a non-final version of an article published ahead of print in Journal of Nursing Care Quality, October 7, 2015, and available at: https://dx.doi.org/10.1097/NCQ.0000000000000157
Identifiers: 991031549944804646