How answering call light on time prevent falls in the long-term s

How answering call light on time prevent falls in the long-term setting?Falls are prevalent in elderly patients residing in nursing homes, with approximately 1.5 falls occurring per nursing home bed-years. Although most are benign andinjury-free, 10% to 25% result in hospital admission and/or fractures. Primary care providers for nursing home residents must therefore aim to reduce both the fallrate as well as the rate of fall-related morbidity in the long-term care setting. Interventions have been demonstrated to be successful in reducing falls incommunity-dwelling elderly patients. However, less evidence supports the efficacy of fall prevention in nursing home residents.WE in the healthcare facility have commonly adopted call-light tracking systems, however, automatically generated call-light data, specific to staff actual responsetime to call lights, have not been used on a regular basis for hospital-wide and unity base quality improvement purposes (e.g., improving in-patients’ experience withnursing care and reducing injurious fall rates) (Tzeng, Hu, Yin, & Johnson, 2011; Tzeng & Yin, 2009). According to a study conducted by Tzeng and Yin (2009) it wasfound that when the average staff actual response time to call lights was longer, the in-patient satisfaction scores for ??getting help as soon as possible’ and ??havingpain well controlled’ were lower and falls were avoided.(Man Q. V, Nancy, W &Laurence Z. R, 2004), Falls in the nursing home: are they preventable? Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/pmid/15530179/citedTzeng H, Grandy G, Yin C.(2013) Staff response time to call lights and unit-acquired pressure ulcer rates in adult in-patient acute care units. Contemporary Nurse: A