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Improving Medicine-Telemetry Discharge Process, Claire Cafirma
Improving Medicine-Telemetry Discharge Process, Claire Cafirma
Student Scholarly Projects
Practice Problem: In Maryland, the most recent coronavirus disease (COVID-19) surge caused a significant increase in hospitalization and urgent demand for critical care beds. The identified delays in discharging patients from the emergency department to inpatient units resulted in more extended hospital stays, higher complication rates, and morbidity, which also impacted the health care organization's finances.
PICOT: The PICOT question that guided this project was in a medicine-telemetry unit (P), does the implementation of an enhanced electronic discharge planning tool (I) compared to the current discharge planning tool (C) affect timely discharge (O) during an eight-week time period …
Very Important Discharge Appointment (Vida), Jennifer Burris, Holly Kockler, Gail Olson, Kristi Patterson, Natasha Pflueger, Jennifer Salzer, Leann Volkers
Very Important Discharge Appointment (Vida), Jennifer Burris, Holly Kockler, Gail Olson, Kristi Patterson, Natasha Pflueger, Jennifer Salzer, Leann Volkers
Nursing Posters
To improve patient flow, access, and decrease strain on resources by enhancing the current process of Discharge and Loop Back Huddle by identifying two patients for early discharge the next day.
Current Practices:
- Discharge huddle and Loopback (Discuss care progression for all pts)
- Discharge planning using the IDEAL Model (Patient and Family Engagement with Discharge)
- Electronic Discharge Readiness Tools (Exp Discharge Date, Discharge milestones, etc.)
Next piece of the puzzle:
- VIDA: a framework to identify 2 patients to be discharged before 11 am – so the bulk of our discharges do not occur between Noon and 4:00 pm.
- Decreasing the …
Case Manager Discharge Planning For Safe Discharge Of Homeless Patients, Melody Jenkins
Case Manager Discharge Planning For Safe Discharge Of Homeless Patients, Melody Jenkins
Master of Science in Nursing Theses and Projects
Acute care case managers are continually challenged with the task of identifying discharge barriers and preparing a discharge plan that facilitates successful recovery and healing. Planning a discharge for a patient that is homeless can be extremely challenging. This MSN Nursing project addresses the complex discharge barriers involved in planning a safe discharge for homeless patients. The project goal was to create a Case Management Resource Algorithm that will organize available community resources to meet the social determinants of health deficits to prevent the progression of disease processes, prevent repeat visits to the emergency room, decrease inpatient admissions, as well …
Improving Care Of Women Experiencing A Pregnancy, Belinda T. Ferguson
Improving Care Of Women Experiencing A Pregnancy, Belinda T. Ferguson
Doctor of Nursing Practice Projects
The purpose of the Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) project was to provide evidence-based staff education at a pregnancy resource center to increase staff/patient engagement and communication by implementing a clinical practice change and use of a DNP student-developed discharge summary referral form (DRF) to assist with assessing patient’s needs, evaluating access to services and utilization of medical care and health promotion services. The overall aim of this project is to increase care with medical follow-up and seek to address improving engagement and communication with patients during their care and after discharge from the Pregnancy Resource Center (PRC). The major …