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Partnering With Hospital Providers To Facilitate Handoff For Persons With Dementia In The Acute Care Setting, Vanessa Jeune
Partnering With Hospital Providers To Facilitate Handoff For Persons With Dementia In The Acute Care Setting, Vanessa Jeune
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Practice Problem: Individuals with Alzheimer's disease and related dementias cannot verbalize their care needs during transitions of care (TOC) and rely on their home caregivers (HCs) for advocacy. The lack of communication between clinicians in one setting and HCs can lead to detrimental health outcomes for the length of stay.
PICOT: The PICOT question that guided this project was: With the assistance of family nurse consultants (P), how does the implementation of standardized care needs communication tool for support persons of persons with dementia (I) vs. no standardized process (C) enhance the ability for the support person to …