Abstract
Purposes: We conducted a cross-sectional descriptive study to evaluate the knowledge and practices of fall prevention among nurses in four departments in 7A Military Hospital, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.
 Subjects and methods: Sixty-two nurses in four departments were chosen to fulfill pre-designed questionnaires, and their daily fall preventive practices were observed. 
 Results: There were 40.3% of nurses achieve good knowledge of fall prevention. In practice, 22.5% of nurses had proper compliance, and 77.4% had not. 82.3% of nurses claimed to update fall prevention knowledge often, and 87.1% demanded training for fall prevention. Nurses in the surgical department group had more knowledge of fall prevention than nurses in the internal medicine group of departments (68.7% vs. 10.0%, p<0.05). Female nurses had higher fall risk compliances than males (78.3% vs. 37.5%, P<0.05).
 Conclusion: Training for nurses in fall preventive knowledge and practices are needed in 7A Military Hospital.
 Keywords: fall preventive; nurses; questionnaires; risk compliances.
Highlights
According to WHO (2018): “A fall is an event which results in a person coming to rest inadvertently on the ground or floor or other lower level.” [1]
Fall preventive knowledge result The nurses had the failure scores accounted for 59.7%, and there was only 40.3% pass (Figure 1)
Female nurses were the majority with triple the number of male nurses (74.2% compared to 25.8%); most of the nurses were in 30-45 years of the age range (80.6%)
Summary
According to WHO (2018): “A fall is an event which results in a person coming to rest inadvertently on the ground or floor or other lower level.” [1]. A fall can cause death or other severe complications. Especially nurses, need to evaluate and reevaluate fall risks to ensure the patients' safety during hospitalization [3]. Keywords Fall Preventive; Nurses; Questionnaires; Risk Compliances. To fulfill this role, nurses need to have proper fall prevention knowledge and practices [4]
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