Computer simulation training will be pertinent to the computer routines required to complete each documentation task accurately and efficiently. The Information Systems (IS) Director will ensure the simulations are current and relevant to the needs of each department within the hospital. Moreover, the simulations will provide a delineated process to complete forms, notes, and other documentation used within the hospital system. Further, the healthcare teams will have continuous access to the computer simulations library for use as a reference when solving documentation dilemmas. Lastly, several other resources such as posters, team emails, and employee question and answer sessions with hospital leadership will be enlisted to ensure patient safety and employee compliance with the new corrective action…
Competitor 1: Hearthside Home Care Hearthside Home Care is a small business, founded in 1999, that is located on Spring Garden Street in Greensboro, NC. Their founder and president, Tina Glenn, is a health professional with over 27 years of experience throughout the medical spectrum, including long term facility care as well as community-based care. They are not as spread out as Caring Group, instead focusing on the immediate Greensboro area. Another difference between Hearthside and Caring Group is that Hearthside does consider themselves non-medical in-home care.…
The purpose of the article is clearly stated and correlates with the title of the article. The article clearly states that patient care communication within the hospital continues to be a major challenge. The problem has become so prevalent that patient handoffs are a Joint Commission national patient safety goal. The goal of the project was to improve the effectiveness of communication among caregivers when patients are transferred between…
The care planning meeting revolved around an 11 year old named, Katy, who was/is subject to care order. The rules around contact with Katy had been made very explicit to Katy’s mother and her Aunt, at the time of the care order being made. However upon receiving the case I learned that Katy had been having unsupervised contact with both her mother and her Aunt, as a result of a lack of adherence to the care order by Katy’s foster carers. As a result Katy had been moved from her previous foster carers to new residential home. Unfortunately Katy’s move from her foster carers to her new residential home was not perfect and may have been a cause for anxiety for Katy due to the uncertainty of her…
Moreover, hospitals are now calling patients at home after being discharged to ensure that they understand the discharge planning and instructions and to answer any questions they might have or concerns regarding their discharge. They are also calling to ensure that they understand the medication regiment and all the instructions that come with it. It is also important to understand that hospitals are ensuring patients are being followed up with home care nurses and sometimes physicians to ensure that they are following all the discharge instructions and to take care of any medical needs they might have such as dressing change, taking their vitals and ensure that they are following their discharge instructions. The hospitals are doing this so as to prevent them from being penalized for patients returning to the hospital for readmission after 30 days (ACEP, 2015). It is important to know that as a result of the penalties that hospitals are faced with, they have now implemented a plan or policy whereby to allow physicians to be made aware of their patients being discharged, and to follow up with patients on lab work and diagnostic testing and to ensure…
I have been working in a nursing home for a little over a year as a dietary aide and have witnessed many problems within the dietary department. The root cause to all of the problems in the dietary department is bad management from my former manager, Sara. Sara was the dietary manager whose job was to manage the kitchen staff, order food and supplies, and plan out meals and snacks for special events at the nursing home. Bad management existed in the kitchen because Sara gave overtime to her employees like it was candy. The kitchen was understaffed for the past couple of months and so the only way that Sara resolved this issue was to give out overtime.…
In this study, a 74-year-old man with multiple chronic medical problems was hospitalized for respiratory distress. He experienced recurrent aspiration and required frequent suctioning and endotracheal intubation on several occasions. The patient was deemed competent and steadfastly refused feeding tube placement. The patient demanded that he be allowed to eat a normal diet despite being told that it could lead to his death. The patient wanted to go home, but there was no one there to care for him.…
The goal of this article is to establish the basis of safe handover between the off going nurse and on coming nurse along with the involvement of the patient and family. Bedside reporting has shown to increase patient engagement, education, responsibility and caregiver support. The nursing aspect of bedside reporting is considered an opportunity to improve communication and accountability between nurses, decrease medication errors and patient falls. A quasi-experimental pre- and post testing design was used to test the effectiveness of bedside reporting.…
This case with Mary is very complex with so many things that have occurred in her life over the years. With her case is say she might be diagnosed with major depression and Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), but it is not confirm so there as to be an assessment done to see if this is proper diagnosis. First to help Mary is build a relationship of trust first so she would be willing to talk to the counselor. This is very important because she is being referred for counseling for part of her discharge plan from the local psychiatric. After building a trust with Mary and if she willing to open up it is important to get to know her.…
Both studies focus on improving patient safety and communication. By working in the health care system, these two studies enhance one’s own practice. Zou & Zhang (2015) in study one describes the importance of nursing handoff and the importance of patient safety throughout this process. It is a time where the oncoming nurse is able to acquire necessary information and ask questions.…
Living in the United States as a woman is difficult. Living in the United States as a poor woman of color, on the other hand, is a completely different burdensome situation. Not only are women of color subject to the trifecta of sexism, racism, and classism, but they are also exploited by the government for their labor. In their essay, “Organizing Home Care,” Jennifer Klein and Eileen Boris argue that home care is the government’s method of saving money by taking advantage of poor women of color. As opposed to nursing homes, which are viewed as costly forms of institutionalization, home health care is the preferred option by both clients and the client’s loved ones, who are unable to care for them themselves.…
Perceived discharge readiness is indicative of a successful discharge planning process. When patients do not perceive they are ready for discharge the transition to home is often unsuccessful resulting in emergency department visits and readmission. This is also true when an infant is discharged from a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) where the parent perception of discharge readiness is desired (Berry et al., 2013). A parent achieves the perception of discharge readiness through effective education and discharge planning. Nurses are responsible for providing the discharge teaching which has been shown as a significant indicator of perceived discharge readiness in parents of hospitalized children (Weiss et al., 2008).…
Patient discharge summaries are documented information explaining important medical recommendations for plan of care. Similarly, Keys To Better Patient Discharge Summaries, identifies “One way to ensure that discharge summaries meet these guidelines: Take advantage of the features of your hospital’s electronic medical records (EHR) system. An EHR that can quickly transmit information about a patient’s hospital stay to a designated primary care provider helps cut back on problems caused by inadequate information after discharge” (White, 2015). Nursing informatics technology is essential for disseminated knowledge to provide patient continuity of…
Home Health Care is form of health care administration that help people who needs day to day nurse care while at home. Some people who are on home health care are not able to do things on their own such as the following: make sure they complete their proper hygiene {bath, brush their teeth, and put their clothes on}, make sure their house is clean; make sure they take their proper medicine at the right time, and more. Home health care workers can play an important role in a person life. They are more like an adult babysitter. Home environment are supposed to be more conducive to the healing process.…
The charge nurse will facilitate the unimpeded flow of patients through the systems, thereby increasing the patient volume. The improved communication between departments will facilitate this increased volume in patients once the doctor admits the patient. The communication between the admitting doctor and bed management to facilitate finding the appropriate room. To ensure the availability of the applicable rooms and resources the relocation of some patients from one department to another is a necessity. The charge nurse over the ICU, Step-down unit and a med-surge unit can improve the communicating and facilitate the appropriate flow of patients through the…