Post Fall Neuro Assesment?

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I work at an Assisted Living LTC unit. Tonight one of my patient's fell in the dining room and hit their head against the wall. I Did the incident report and post fall assesment, patient was fine for the rest of the evening, did 15 minute checks for the first hour, then every hour afterwards. I told my DON about the fall and head bump, she didn't say anything about doing a Neuro assesment sheet, (she's new and I'm not sure if she even knows), but are you suppose to fill out something other than the post fall/incident report?

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Its important that you have done a thorough neuro check to your patient just after the incident. How has the other members of the health care team reacted? How is your patient now? :nurse:

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Specializes in Critical Care/ICU.

I don't work LTC but I would think that the doc and the family would need to be notified?

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The patient is fine. The other staff thought that it sounded like a pretty hard bump. I did a very thourough assesment and he was doing well when I left last night at 11pm. The doctor and family was telephoned, so they were notified also.

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