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Assuring A Continuum Of Care For Heart Failure Patients Through Post-Acute Care Collaboration, Purnima Krishna
Assuring A Continuum Of Care For Heart Failure Patients Through Post-Acute Care Collaboration, Purnima Krishna
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
Abstract
Background: Heart failure (HF) patients have a high risk of rehospitalization after discharge from acute care. Post-discharge management of HF patients requires coordinating services outside the hospital, such as skilled nursing and home health care to address patients’ complex needs.
Local Problem. High HF readmission rates negatively impact a hospital’s efficiency and pose a risk of financial penalties. In the project setting, the HF patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities and home health agencies had a higher rate of 30-day readmission than patients discharged to home.
Methods: Fourteen post-acute care (PAC) facilities were selected for the interventions. The …
Manager Onboarding To Improve Knowledge And Confidence To Lead, Christine (Tina) K. Asiimwe
Manager Onboarding To Improve Knowledge And Confidence To Lead, Christine (Tina) K. Asiimwe
Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP) Projects
Background: Primary care (PC) is increasingly the setting for affordable, coordinated, end-to-end patient care, with PC managers in charge of organizational performance. While PC managers are central to high-functioning teams, they often receive inadequate onboarding.
Local Problem: Primary care onboarding competes with other operational priorities and faces time constraints, lack of mentorship, and cost.
Context: At an integrated healthcare system, a need was identified to develop structured, role-specific onboarding for newly hired PC managers to improve knowledge and confidence to lead.
Interventions: Bauer’s Four Cs framework for onboarding guided the development of a manager onboarding program for 12 new PC …