Nurse's interventions in preventing falls in hospitalized children: scoping review - Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem

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Nurse’s interventions in preventing falls in hospitalized children: scoping review

ABSTRACT

Objectives:

map both nursing interventions for the prevention of falls in paediatric age during hospitalization and the instruments for assessing the risk of falls in paediatrics.

Methods:

scoping review according to the protocol of Joanna Briggs Institute, with acronym PCC (P – children, C – fall preventive nursing interventions and instruments for assessing the risk of falling, C – hospital admission), in three sources of information (EBSCO, PubMed and SciELO).

Results:

the sample consisted of seven articles. The education of the child/family is the basis of the interventions, and the instruments for assessing the risk of falling identified were: Humpty Dumpty Falls Scale, GRAF PIF, CUMMINGS, I’M SAFE and CHAMPS.

Conclusions:

the education of children/parents on preventive measures is important and should be reinforced during hospitalization, using different methodologies. The Humpty Dumpty Falls Scale was the most analyzed.

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