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Implementation Of A Nurse Driven Palliative Care Consult: A Quality Improvement Project, Socnite Sebourne-Francis
Implementation Of A Nurse Driven Palliative Care Consult: A Quality Improvement Project, Socnite Sebourne-Francis
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Background: Palliative care consult (PCC) is an approach that can improve the quality of life and symptom management of patients facing life-threatening illnesses. At a 20-bed medical oncology unit in Connecticut, patients with poor prognosis and worsening symptoms have high re-admission rates within 30 days of post-hospital discharge; yet healthcare providers fail to initiate PCC.
Purpose: This project hypothesizes how implementing a nurse-driven PCC on admission or hospital stays compared to the timing of a physician to a physician PCC improves a plan of care for oncology patients? Will it result in a decrease in 30-day re-admission rates? The …