Healthcare professional perspectives on barriers and enablers to falls prevention education: A qualitative study.

ABSTRACT: In hospitals, patient falls prevention education is frequently delivered by nurses and allied health professionals. Hospital falls rates remain high globally, despite the many systems and approaches that attempt to mitigate falling. The aim of this study was to investigate health professional views on the enablers and barriers to providing patient falls education in hospitals. Four focus groups with 23 nursing and allied health professionals were conducted at 3 hospitals. Three researchers independently coded the data and findings were analysed thematically with a descriptive qualitative approach to identify and develop themes according to barriers and enablers. Barriers included (i) limited interprofessional communication about patient falls; (ii) sub-optimal systems for falls education f

SUBMITTER: Heng H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9045665 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature