Welcome to Episode Eighteen of our podcast series. This features material from our November 2023 print edition of the Residential Aged Care Communiqué. This podcast presents the lessons to be learned by examining pre-existing circumstances that contributed to two patients’ falls that caused their deaths. A common underlying factor was timeliness of care.

Episode Contents

• 00:45 Editorial
• 06:22 Case #1 A fatal fall unwitnessed and unchecked
• 19:41 Case #2 Solving one problem creates another
• 27:58 Reflections of senior nurses