Patient Entrapment Assessments

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Do any of you use an assessment to determine which patients could become entrapped in the bed rails? Would you be willing to share with me?

My hospital is ordering bed rail pads and I am working with a group to develop a screening tool to determine which patients might need the pads to prevent entrapment in the bed rails.

Any ideas/help/examples are appreciated.

June55Baby!

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

You could try using your facility's fall risk assessment tool as a prototype. If you think about it, the vast majority of your fall risks are also going to be entrapment risks, e.g. patients whose LOC is altered for any reason--it's not just LOLs from the nursing home, but pts. going through detox, fresh post-ops, hx of seizures and so on; age 70 yrs.; anyone in restraints, etc.

Hope this helps get you started.

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mjlrn,

Thanks for your input. We have a great Fall Risk Assessment Tool and have considered "tweaking" it for entrapment. Just hate to add more to overworked nursing staff... Hummm.....

Glad to know we are on the right track!

June55Baby

P.S. Had a hyst.... best thing I ever did after childbearing days were over! ! ! !

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Specializes in LTC, assisted living, med-surg, psych.

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