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Older Adults’ Implementation Of Discharge Instructions Following An Acute Care Hospital Stay, Brenda Miller
Older Adults’ Implementation Of Discharge Instructions Following An Acute Care Hospital Stay, Brenda Miller
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Discharge instructions are a self-care guide for patients after discharge from an acute care hospitalization. The discharge process starts on admission to the hospital and continues until discharged. Many patients rely on informal caregivers to provide support after a discharge. However, it is often unclear whether the patients or caregivers completely understand instructions provided during the discharge process. Key concepts related to how discharge instructions were implemented following discharge to home have been understudied from the patient’s and informal caregivers’ perspectives. Developing effective discharge instructions based on study findings may assist in reducing 30-day hospital readmission rates.
This study was …
The Use Of Clinical Decision Support To Improve Nursing Practice, Kathleen Klimpel
The Use Of Clinical Decision Support To Improve Nursing Practice, Kathleen Klimpel
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Healthcare information technology is solidly entrenched in most acute care hospitals but the need to demonstrate its positive impact on patient outcomes persists. Clinical decision support (CDS) is an informatics tool that is highly customizable to promote patient improvement activities. Despite its high potential, studies have had mixed results regarding the impact of CDS and it has not been widely studied in the realm of nursing practice. One aim of this dissertation was to analyze the concept of CDS in order to inform the examination of the relationships between CDS implementation and nursing interventions. The determining factors of nurses use …