Assignment: Assessing Transitional Care in Hospitals
Assignment: Assessing Transitional Care in Hospitals
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Owing to the increasing rates of hospital readmissions arising from poor transitional care it is essential to implement a program that will see to it that the current challenges facing transitional care are addressed and that there is an increase in specialized nursing to help foster the provision of transitional care. Currently, the health care committee has proposed a number of interventions that need to be implemented by the project manager to see the improvement of transition care, especially in relation to dealing with elderly patients (Morphet et. al., 2014). Some of these interventions that have been proven to result in the reduction of patient readmission rates among them patient needs assessment, patient education, medication reconciliation, timely outpatient appointment as well as the provision of telephone follow-up services (Morphet et. al., 2014).It is essential that once the patients are discharged from hospitals that they continue to receive enhanced communication, medication safety and that their caregivers receive advanced care planning and training on how to best manage the associated common medical conditions (Ortiz, 2019). As a result of the currently proposed interventions, the project aims to target the challenges on transition care by defining the role of home-based services, the significance of caregiver support, community partnerships and the importance of new transitional care personnel (Ortiz, 2019). The project manager has gone as far as proposing the time frame that it will take to see the realization of the effects of the project, a practical budget as well as the resources and tools that will be used in the project to see the successful realization of the transitional care program.
The Time Frame of the Project
ACTIVITIES
TIMELINE
Ascertaining the current state of Transitional Care in Hospitals (Patients Admissions, Level of Communication and Coordination among the Nurses, Level of Interaction between the Healthcare providers and the Nurses)
6 months
Ascertaining the Level of Nursing Expertise in Hospitals (Level of Education and Expertise of the Nurses)
6 Months
Making Home Visits to the Patients to Ascertain the Level of Expertise of the Caregivers
6 Months
Consolidation of the Collected Results