The findings from this study underline the importance of ensuring that required care is completed (ie, limit missed care) on a daily basis, thus potentially minimizing patient falls. Although nurse staffing levels affect patient fall rates, the level of impact is reduced when care is completed in its entirety. Further work must be done to assist nurses in completing necessary tasks such as ambulation, toilet assistance, patient assessments, and call light responses, which may or may not mean additional staff members. Strategies for assisting staff to complete all aspects of nursing care include checklists, computer reminders, and patient engagement. Until we more fully understand the process of nursing care and its relationships to patient outcomes, we will not be able to develop successful strategies to prevent adverse events such as falls. Hospital nursing staff need to conduct root cause analyses to determine the reasons for missing this care and develop interventions to ensure that standard nursing care is completed.