Celebrating Nurses’ Monumental Impact
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By: OSD Staff
Published: 1/2/2014
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Identify Fall-Risk Patients
During pre-op phone calls, we ask patients these 5 questions to assess their risk of falling while they're in our care:
Patients who answer "yes" to any of these questions wear yellow non-skid slipper socks. Cataract patients, because they don't remove their shoes, wear yellow scrub caps. The brightly colored apparel is easily recognizable by staff.
Sandy Berreth, RN, MS, CASC
Brainerd Lakes Surgery Center
Baxter, Minn.
[email protected]
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