In an adult medical surgical unit, how does a standardized discharge planning assessment instrument, being completed by a discharge nurse that takes part in patient/family centered bedside rounding, compared with a discharge process that does not include a standardized discharge planning assessment instrument by a discharge nurse that takes part in patient/family bedside rounding; affect hospitals readmissions within 6 months?
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Critical Appraisal Components: Evidence-Based Factors: Research that addresses the issue The rapidly changing and uncertain landscape of today’s health care environment requires nurses to collect, analyze, interpret, and use information to competently respond to patient’s needs in an abbreviated period of time (Holland et al., 2012). As an Admission/Discharge nurse I see on a daily basis how critical it is to assess the patient’s possible needs on Admission and collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to get a patient ready for discharge. Findings show that when using a standardized systematic discharge planning assessment tool patients reported fewer …show more content…
One important difference, rounds done on the intervention group used a structure protocol with a set of specific questions targeted to patients preadmission needs and discharge needs with the end goal to have patients ready for discharge the day before the actual discharge date (Wrobleski et al., 2014).
The two main outcomes were time to complete (DP) rounds and utilization of health care services after hospital discharge. Time spent discussing each patient’s discharge needs were recorded by a research’s assistance for both groups (conference room and bedside DP rounds).
Out of the 120 patients, 110 were contacted after discharge and 10 were lost to follow
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Critical Appraisal Components: Evidence-Based Factors: Research that addresses the issue The rapidly changing and uncertain landscape of today’s health care environment requires nurses to collect, analyze, interpret, and use information to competently respond to patient’s needs in an abbreviated period of time (Holland et al., 2012). As an Admission/Discharge nurse I see on a daily basis how critical it is to assess the patient’s possible needs on Admission and collaborate with the interdisciplinary team to get a patient ready for discharge. Findings show that when using a standardized systematic discharge planning assessment tool patients reported fewer …show more content…
One important difference, rounds done on the intervention group used a structure protocol with a set of specific questions targeted to patients preadmission needs and discharge needs with the end goal to have patients ready for discharge the day before the actual discharge date (Wrobleski et al., 2014).
The two main outcomes were time to complete (DP) rounds and utilization of health care services after hospital discharge. Time spent discussing each patient’s discharge needs were recorded by a research’s assistance for both groups (conference room and bedside DP rounds).
Out of the 120 patients, 110 were contacted after discharge and 10 were lost to follow