Application of risk assessment management in elderly patients in psychiatric wards
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-2907.2012.07.030
- VernacularTitle:风险评估管理在老年精神科病房中的应用
- Author:
Jing-Yi CUI
1
;
Fei-Fei LI
;
Chen WANG
;
Ren-Xia ZHANG
;
Ge ZHANG
Author Information
1. 北京回龙观医院
- Keywords:
Aged;
Psychiatric department,hospital;
Nursing;
Risk assessment management
- From:
Chinese Journal of Modern Nursing
2012;18(7):818-820
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
Objective To investigate the nurses' mastery of the patients' condition and effect of incident prevention after the application of risk assessment management in elderly patients in psychiatric wards.Methods 56 inpatients spanning from January to December 2010 were enrolled as the observation group and 55inpatients spanning from January to December 2009 were enrolled as the control group.The control group received routine care,while the observation group received risk assessment management based on routine care,which mainly include:doctors' assessment of the patient' s condition changes,therapies,medication and side effects,as well as nurses' weekly assessment of risks of falls,food choking and pressure sores and taking pertinent nursing measures.Nurses' mastery of the patients' condition and effect of incident prevention before and after the application of risk assessment management was compared.Results Average score of nurses'mastery of patients' condition was (77.36 ± 1.26) points in the control group and ( 85.60 ± 3.07) points.The difference was statistically significant ( t =11.690,P ＜ 0.01 ).The control group had 45 cases of incidents and the observation group had 19 cases.There was significant difference between the two groups (x2 =13.87,P ＜ 0.05).Conclusions The risk assessment management is beneficial to the nurses' mastery of the patients'condition and incident prevention,thus boost the nursing quality.
