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Readiness For Discharge In Parents Of Hospitalized Children, Marianne E. Weiss, Norah Louise Johnson, Shelly Malin, Teresa A. Jerofke, Cecilia Lang, Eileen Sherburne
Readiness For Discharge In Parents Of Hospitalized Children, Marianne E. Weiss, Norah Louise Johnson, Shelly Malin, Teresa A. Jerofke, Cecilia Lang, Eileen Sherburne
College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications
Parental preparation for a child's discharge from the hospital sets the stage for successful transitioning to care and recovery at home. In this study of 135 parents of hospitalized children, the quality of discharge teaching, particularly the nurses' skills in “delivery” of parent teaching, was associated with increased parental readiness for discharge, which was associated with less coping difficulty during the first 3 weeks postdischarge. Parental coping difficulty was predictive of greater utilization of posthospitalization health services. These results validate the role of the skilled nurse as a teacher in promoting positive outcomes at discharge and beyond the hospitalization.
Patients' Perceptions Of Hospital Discharge Informational Content, Lynn Rose Maloney, Marianne Weiss
Patients' Perceptions Of Hospital Discharge Informational Content, Lynn Rose Maloney, Marianne Weiss
College of Nursing Faculty Research and Publications
Ensuring that patients' informational needs have been met prior to hospital discharge sets the stage for successful self-management of recovery at home. This secondary analysis study aims to identify differences in the amount of discharge teaching content needed and received by adult medical-surgical patients on the basis of their sociodemographic characteristics and hospitalization-related factors. The Quality of Discharge Teaching Scale (QDTS) is used to measure patients' perceptions of the amount of discharge-related informational content they needed and received. Eighty-nine percent of patients receive more informational content than they perceived they needed. Nonwhite patients report more content needed than White patients. …