Nurses and other healthcare professionals need to gain a better understanding of the difficulties perceived by women following seeing the scars from mastectomy and implement strategies to assist in successful adaptation to the experience.
Findings suggest that assessments of fall risk should heavily weigh the 3 predictors identified in this study. Another approach would be to intervene based on these predictors.
This exploratory pilot study evaluating patients with SDTI revealed the most common precipitating event was transfers. In addition, the physiological variables that appeared to contribute to the development of SDTIs were anticoagulation and anemia. The range of days for precipitating events prior to SDTI manifestation was 1 to 5 days, an average of 2.41 (SD, 1.04) days.
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