Hourly rounding is indeed anticipating and meeting the needs of patients and ensuring their safety. According to Ford (2010), evidence based practice showed that hourly rounding improve patient outcome and safety by reducing the amount of times the call bell goes off and patient falling. When the nurse does round hourly he or she can ask the patient whether they need assistance with anything. The nurse can also make sure that everything is within the patient’s reach. At times patients may feel that they are a bother to the nurses and try to get up on their own to use the bathroom and fall, for example. The study conducted by Ford revealed that, due to hourly rounding, the amount of times patient used the call light was reduced by 52% and no