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A Roadmap For The Journey Home - A Supplemental Tool Guiding Patients From Hospital To Home, Michelle Basco
A Roadmap For The Journey Home - A Supplemental Tool Guiding Patients From Hospital To Home, Michelle Basco
Master's Projects and Capstones
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS) have recognized readmission rates as a public health problem. CMS incentivizes hospitals to reduce readmission rates and reduce payments for hospitals with high readmission rates (Berry et al., 2013). Patient education and discharge planning are associated with decreased readmission rates. I gained fieldwork experience at Children’s Health System of Texas in Dallas. Children’s Health, a pediatric non-profit, is the 8th largest pediatric health care provider in the U.S. Prior to discharge patient education occurs on topics related to their diagnosis, plus patients are provided discharge instructions including their diagnosis, medications, and simple instructions for …
Discharge By 11:00 Am And The Effects On Throughput, Gena Bravo
Discharge By 11:00 Am And The Effects On Throughput, Gena Bravo
Master's Projects and Capstones
This Clinical Nurse Leader project aims to improve the discharge process to increase the percentage of patients discharged before 11:00 AM on the Progressive Care Unit (PCU). One evidence-based approach to help alleviate capacity constraints in the hospital is to create an effective and timely discharge process. The goal of this project is to educate the front line staff, care coordinators, and providers to a standardized discharge process. The PCU is a cardiac telemetry unit with 30 private rooms. The patients on the PCU are post-cardiac surgery with some overflow medical patients throughout the unit. Kotter’s theoretical framework was chosen …