Nursing Clinical Risk Management

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Clinical risk management mainly focus on incident management and monitoring of adverse effect, and clinical investigation to establish root cause, this embed assessing the accurate and valid tools to prevent falls in the hospital. Fall is a ranked as 2 major cause of mortality in the world (Murray et al. 2012, p. 1222). Liu, Shen and Xiao (2012, p. 290) explains fall is a major causes of mobility and mortality and almost 30% of the old age patient suffer from facture, laceration and traumatic brain injuries, fall constituent large percentage of facture which is about 27% among elderly people. Fracture complication like DVT and embolism can leading to long hospital stay, increase mortality and risk of nursing home placement due to impaired

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