Exploring the Relationship Between Nursing Work Environment and Patient Fall Incidence Rates

Posted: Mar 06, 2020

• Bryce Lambert
• Graham Ortiz
• Piper Delgado

Abstract

Patient falls represent a significant challenge in healthcare settings, with substantial implications for patient safety, healthcare costs, and clinical outcomes. Traditional approaches to understanding fall incidence have predominantly focused on patient-specific risk factors or isolated environmental elements, neglecting the complex interplay between nursing work environment characteristics and patient safety outcomes. The nursing work environment constitutes a multidimensional ecosystem comprising physical, organizational, and interpersonal components that collectively influence care delivery processes. Previous research has established correlations between individual environmental factors and patient outcomes, but these investigations have typically employed reductionist methodologies that fail to capture