Institutional actions based on nursing diagnoses for preventing falls in the elderly

• Main Authors: Rafaela Vivian Valcarenghi (Author), Silvana Sidney Costa Santos (Author), Karina Silveira de Almeida Hammerschmidt (Author), Edison Luiz Devos Barlem (Author), Giovana Calcagno Gomes (Author), Bárbara Tarouco da Silva (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade Federal do Ceará, 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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This study aimed to propose institutional actions based on nursing diagnoses for the prevention of falls in the elderly. Qualitative, exploratory and descriptive research, with 30 institutionalized senior citizens from Rio Grande, RS, Brazil. During data collection five instruments were applied from...