As I mentioned in my discussion post I believe that discharge teaching is an important part in the patient’s treatment. I have heard multiple times that a patient’s discharge planning starts the minute that the patient is admitted to the hospital. According to an article that talked about readmission of the elderly patient, “25 billion [dollars are spent] each year in “wasteful” healthcare spending” (Olson, Dey, Kumar, Monsen, & Westra, 2016, p. 43). This is a lot of money to be wasting because the patient did not understand the discharge instructors, or in your case the patients did not understand the disease. It is important for the nurse to sit down with the patient and possibly family members and go over the discharge instructions and medications
