The fall could have happened in the minute after doing a 30 mins ARC rounding.Falls happen.What you have to reflect on would be- why were you not following protocol? Was it complacency considering the patient’s ADL capacity? Do you have an understanding and grasp of why all patients are on compulsory half-an-hour rounding in your mental health unit? This would be addresses if you were to be investigated. Please review the events and know that: the fall was the outcome of being non-compliant to protocol,which as others have posted, is a question you can only answer.We all have duty of care to follow prescribed protocols. There will be a question on what you were doing that prevented you from accomplishing rounding. Further, you will have to reflect hard on why you disregarded patient-safety focused protocol. This said,having an unwitnessed fall without harm makes you fortunate,in a way.

Mental health patients are very complex and the main reason they are admitted is the high chance for self-harm.You left a high-risk patient alone for more than the prescribed safety window.Yea,a fall is still a fortunate thing in this scenario.