A nurse completes an incident/occurrence report after a patient fell.What is the reason for this report?

A) To compare patient fall rates between nursing units in the hospital
B) To provide justification for the hospital to fire the nurse
C) To prevent the patient from filing a malpractice lawsuit
D) To aid in the hospital's quality improvement program

Incident reports are an important part of quality improvement.The overall goal is to identify changes needed to prevent future reoccurrence.A report is an exchange of information between health care members.Transfer reports involve communication of information about patients from one nurse on the sending unit to the nurse on the receiving unit.Occurrence reports do not prevent lawsuits.The nurse does not complete the incident report to provide cause for the nurse to be fired from the hospital.