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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"discharge education"”.
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Improving patient outcomes through use of the teach-back method in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit
… in the Bay Area. The goal was to improve the discharge education performed by the PACU nurses to improve patient safety and decrease the chance of complications or readmissions to this hospital. With no clear instructions for how discharge teaching should be done, the nurses have many …
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Sustaining a Cultural Change in the Discharge Process
… these incidents are reflective of the lack of discharge preparation, discharge education, and communication within the health care team. Certain factors have been overlooked, such as patient's health literacy, defragmented delivery of resources, and an ineffective process of teaching. …
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Preventing 30-Day Readmissions of Clostridium difficile Patients Utilizing Targeted Discharge Instructions
… in hospitalized patients. Following a targeted discharge education intervention focused on nursing providers and patients, a decrease in 30-day readmissions of healthcare-acquired <em>Clostridium difficile infection</em> was identified at a sustained rate of 14% for 30-day readmissions.</p>
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Inpatient & Outpatient Venous Thromboembolism: A Multifactorial Approach to Increase Mechanical and Pharmacological Prophylaxis Compliance
… signs were placed on documentation stations, and education sessions were conducted with over 300 medical surgical nurses. Informal interviews with nursing staff, discharge pharmacists, and the hospital’s outpatient clinic staff were conducted to determine obstacles in compliance and gaps in …
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Transitioning from hospital to reality: Do newly diagnosed heart failure patients benefit from a Heart Failure Clinical Nurse Specialist providing focused education at discharge?
… events. Heart failure can be managed with educational interventions, medications and lifestyle modifications to help improve function, reduced hospitalisations and mortality. Approximately 50% of patients hospitalised with heart failure will be readmitted with exacerbations within six …
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Reducing Patient Supply Waste Through Nurse Education to Improve Quality of Patient Care in the Clinical Microsystem
… project. Furthermore, I continued the staff education in huddles and in services to bring awareness of supply waste and unscanned supplies in the unit.</p> <p>Lewin’s three stage change theory was utilized to help implement the CNL project.To evaluate the project’s effectiveness, I completed …