Information and opinions of nurses working in psychiatry clinic on patient falling down and prevention

Purpose: This study was carried out to determine the knowledge and opinions of nurses working in adult psychiatric clinics about the patient falls and prevention. Method: Research was carried out at Dokuz Eylul University Hospital, Ege University Hospital, Katip Çelebi University Atatürk Education and Research Hospital, Bozyaka Education and Research Hospital, Buca Seyfi Demirsoy Public Hospital and Manisa Mental Health and Diseases Hospital psychiatric wards in İzmir province in June- September 2017. The study sample who agreed to participate in a psychiatric ward in this house employees and consisted of 80 nurses. Data collection was created in the literatüre of nurses in accordance with the information and opinions regarding the evaluation form and preventing patient falls were used. Number and percentage distributions, chi- square analysis were used in the evaluation of the data. Findings: The average age of the nurses participating in the research was 39. 69±6. 16. 85% female, 43. 8% undergraduate, 55. 1% in state hospital and %81. 3 in patient fall. 97. 5% of the nurses working in the psychiatric wards encountered patient falls. %85 of the nurses stated that there may be undeclared and undeclared falls. %88. 8 of the nurses consider the patient falls as an important problem and %87. 5 think that they have a role in preventing falls. %57. 5 of the nurses stated that they needed training in the prevention of falls and falls. Result: According to the experience of nurses in psychiatric clinics, patient falls are considerable. The fact that nurses have a high rate of unexplained and unrecognized patient falls indicates that the risk of falling should be assessed and protective measures should be taken according tho the risk level. Nurses working in the psyhiatric clinic wiew patient falls as an important problem and need up- to- date information and training in managing and preventing patient falls. It is recommended that preventive programs, such as assessing the risk of falling for nurses working in psychiatric clinics, taking precautions to prevent falls in the therapeutic environment, are implemented and implemented. Key words: Nurse, Psychiatric Clinic, Patient Fall, Information