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QUESTION
- Elopement skill nursing facility
Write the following sections that are still left to complete in the template for your paper and submit them for review. This will allow you to receive feedback before submitting your final draft in week 8. Your submission should be at least 2 pages in length and should be written in APA (6th ed.) format.
Actual Outcomes/Evaluation: Discuss your measurable evaluation methods (indicators/metrics). Include any of the following that are applicable to your project: cost savings, improved efficiencies, access to care (visits/procedures/admissions), patient/family satisfaction, associate satisfaction, associate engagement, retention, clinical outcomes, injury prevention, and risk reduction.
Summary and Conclusions: Include a summary of your change project, the main points and findings, the significance of the project to the nursing profession, and any recommendations for future research. You should also focus on the lessons learned implementing your change project, including successes, challenges, obstacles, and future recommendations for similar clinical situations.
Due: Sunday, 11:59 p.m. (Pacific time)
Points Possible: 40
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Actual Outcomes, Summary and ConclusionAccess to care
Management of elopement will help in improving access to care by patients in the Barnes Homes. Installing the Wander Arm Bracelets that captures the patient’s name, emergency phone numbers and admissions will help the caregivers to provide services to the patients with just a click (Feldkamp, 2015). Similarly, the technology will help the nurses to monitor the behavior of patients with the normalcy of wandering and eloping which helps them to monitor their movements and give them the care they need. Also, well-trained staff will help improve service delivery to the notorious patients who tend to elope as the nurses will have a mechanism of handling them. Also, the technology will help prevent the patients from being exposed to risks thus better health care for them and prolonged life (Lester, Garite, & Kohen, 2012). Besides the technology will help the nurses to manage new visits to the facility and process their admissions with immediate effect Rape et al. (2015).
Family satisfaction
Elopement challenges affect most families negatively. Elopement is a significant contributor to mortality in individuals with mental illness in most healthcare facilities. Besides, elopement has denied most families sleep as they are always worried about the whereabouts of those who have eloped (Tom, 2016). The development of a better mechanism of preventing elopement in facilities will go a long way in assuring families that their relatives are doing well in the facilities that they have been admitted to Moore et al. (2009). The automated technology will also help parents to plan their visit easily to the facilities. Similarly, the new technology will help nurses to understand the reasons that trigger wandering and elopement among the patients in Barnes homes for better care and thus parents will be satisfied with the well-being of their children in the long run.
Summary and Conclusions
Findings
- Most facilities in the world are affected by the elopement of patients. Also most of the patients who elope either die or get injuries while wandering.
- An effective technology needs to be used to prevent the elopement of patients from facilities.
- Elopement is very risky since most of the people who elope from a supervised area tend to be involved in traffic-related injuries, unable to be relocated, and even find themselves in drowning accidents (Mangini& Wick, 2017).
.4. Facilities should accommodate bedtime and sleep rituals to enhance sleep and as well as lessen insomnia among the patients.
- The needs of the patients in a facility should be met in time to prevent them from wandering.
Significance of the project to the nursing profession.
Elopement can have adverse effects on the patients and the staff of any facility. This project is of great importance to the nursing profession at large. This project helps nurses to be able to manage patients’ behavior while in the facility since the system captures the day to day movements and thus nurses can identify patients with the tendency of wandering and eloping from the facility (Williams, 2017). Also, this project suggests that nurses should be educated and awareness made onto them that patients can elope at any time and therefore they should be vigilant. Besides, the project helps nurses to be aware of the significance of using the new technology in preventing patients from eloping.
Recommendations for future studies
I recommend future studies to focus on the reason why elopement occurs in most facilities and find suitable interventions for it. Also, studies should be carried out on how to manage the elopement impact on parents and families.
Implementation
The project was a success since it helped to control elopement in our facility. Also, the project experienced technical hitches since it was being used for a time even though we managed to beat the challenges. Lastly, I recommend the project be implemented in facilities offering care to mentally ill patients.
References
Feldkamp, J. K. (2015). Implement Safety Measures to Avoid Resident Elopements. Caring for the Ages, 16(5), 14.
Lester, P. E., Garite, A., & Kohen, I. (2012). Wandering and elopement in nursing homes. Annals of Long-Term Care, 20(3), 32-36.
Mangini, L., & Wick, J. Y. (2017). Wandering: Unearthing new tracking devices. The Consultant Pharmacist®, 32(6), 324-331.
Moore, D. H., Algase, D. L., Powell-Cope, G., Applegarth, S., & Beattie, E. R. (2009). A framework for managing wandering and preventing elopement. American Journal of Alzheimer's disease & Other Dementias®, 24(3), 208-219.
Rape, C., Mann, T., Schooley, J., & Ramey, J. (2015). Managing patients with behavioral health problems in acute care: balancing safety and financial viability. JONA: The Journal of Nursing Administration, 45(1), 7-10.
Tom, C. (2016). Improving patient safety through patient safety aide (sitter) competency education.
Williams, M. (2017). Interventions to Increase Staff Comfort Level Related to Elopement (Doctoral dissertation, Carlow University).