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Teach-Back Education In Heart Failure Patients Benchmark Study, Bethany N. Johnson
Teach-Back Education In Heart Failure Patients Benchmark Study, Bethany N. Johnson
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Heart failure exasperation is one of the most common causes of hospital readmission in the United States (Breathett et al., 2018). It is estimated that greater than half of all heart failure patients will be readmitted to the hospital within six months of discharge (Caluya, 2021). Additionally, one in four individuals with heart failure are readmitted within thirty days of discharge (Rahmani et al., 2020). This data shows a large area of improvement for hospitals in order to improve patient outcomes. Due to the lack of standardized discharge teaching, heart failure patients are often admitted to the hospital for the …
Bedside Shift Reporting: A Benchmark Project, Clydea C. Hale
Bedside Shift Reporting: A Benchmark Project, Clydea C. Hale
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Patient care is forever changing to improve satisfaction, safety, and overall treatment. Over the past few years, patients and their families are more invested in their overall care in the hospital and expect to be informed every step of the way. A common complaint from patients or their families is that one nurse or staff did not know the individuals care or treatment plan, there were no shift goals to work toward discharge, and the nurse did not update the patient/family with changes in care. All of these complaints along with the patient satisfaction scores and communication between the treatment …
Dying Well: Improving End-Of-Life For Those Affected By Life-Limiting Illness, Fawna R. Allen
Dying Well: Improving End-Of-Life For Those Affected By Life-Limiting Illness, Fawna R. Allen
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Healthcare at End-of-life (EoL) in the older adult with a life-limiting illness is often crisis-driven, incongruent with patient and family preferences, and futile. Advance care planning (ACP) is an effective means of aligning EoL goals of care to values and preferences. ACP near EoL in the United States healthcare system is frequently under-utilized and fragmented. Without timely communication and education regarding EoL care options patients and their families are susceptible to spending their last days consumed by ineffective and potentially painful treatments. Alignment of goals of care with patient and family preferences has been shown to reduce crisis-driven care and …