Interviewer: Tell us about a healthcare program within your practice. What are the costs and projected outcomes of this program?

K.S.: Thank you for giving me this opportunity. My practice is majorly focused on geriatric care. An issue with geriatric care is a single patient with multiple health conditions. Such multimorbid conditions impair the sensory and cognitive functions of the elderly patients we care for. Evidence shows that such multimorbid conditions affecting the sensory and cognitive functions of the elderly are responsible for multiple safety issues in geriatric care, including falls, fractures, lacerations, bedsores, and medication errors (Huh & Shin, 2021). To counter these safety issues, we are developing a safety program focused on improving the safety of geriatric patients under nursing care. The program includes education of nurses on caring for frail elderly patients, installing monitoring gadgets, and walking assist rails. The costs of this program will include costs related to educating the nurses on safe geriatric care, purchase of the monitoring gadgets and guard rails, and installation of the monitoring gadgets and guard rails at the geriatric ward. This program is expected to reduce the number of falls and related safety issues, including fractures. This will improve the experiences of the nurses and elderly patients as well as injury-related increases in the length of stay.

Interviewer: Who is your target population?

K.S.: The safety program targets geriatric elderly patients at risk of falls and geriatric care nurses