Discharge Planning Guide for Nurses
Discharge Planning Guide for Nurses

Author: Judith Waring Rorden

Publisher: Saunders

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 404

ISBN-13:

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Here's a practical guide for nurses in helping patients make a transition from one care setting to another. Focuses on DRGs and the critical need for planning and teamwork resulting from early discharge. Provides checklist to help ensure continuity of care, as it relates to health promotion, recuperation, short- and long-term rehabilitation, chronic disease, institutional care, and terminal illness. Also includes legal and ethical considerations.

Discharge Planning Guide
Discharge Planning Guide

Author: Jackie Birmingham

Publisher: HC Pro, Inc.

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 9781578394043

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Book discusses federal regulations surrounding discharge planning.

Discharge Planning for Home Health Care
Discharge Planning for Home Health Care

Author: Barbara Stover Gingerich

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780834205727

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Discharge Planning for Home Health Care is a comprehensive, step-by-step guide to assessing the needs of patients and establishing a coordinated hospital-to-home discharge plan. The referral format and assessment tools provide the user with an organized and systematic approach for the transition of the patient through the continuum of care. This comprehensive resource is based on current reimbursement and regulatory issues and contains over 150 tools for easy application to a broad spectrum of health care settings.

Discharge Planning for the Elderly
Discharge Planning for the Elderly

Author: Kimberly Dash

Publisher:

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780826192301

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Designed as a text or self-learning manual, this book offers nurses practical programs for discharge planning for the elderly. This program was developed by the Education Development Center and Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. The premise of the book is that nurses should be involved in the discharge planning process, along with other members of the health care team, from the first day of hospitalization. Topics include assessing the patient's physical, mental, and functional needs; assessing the caregiver and home environment; matching patient needs with appropriate resources in the community or institutional setting; patient advocacy; and ethics. Each chapter includes learning objectives, case studies, and clinical exercises. In addition, the many sample forms, charts, and diagrams help to clarify complex information.

Is Your Patient Ready to Go Home?: A Discharge Guideline for Surgical Care
Is Your Patient Ready to Go Home?: A Discharge Guideline for Surgical Care

Author: Nurhayati

Publisher: Syiah Kuala University Press

Published: 2022-05-30

Total Pages: 97

ISBN-13: 6232645898

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This book is a tribute to nursing practices based on theoretical nursing and literature review. It presents important knowledge-building ideas in preparing patients for hospital discharge. Chapter I introduces the overview of hospital discharge. Chapter II discusses the Transitions’ Theory based on Meleis Middle Range Theory that can be used as the basic framework to guide the discharge transition concept which is relevant to the main concept of hospital discharge. Chapter III illustrates Self-Care Nursing Theory by Dorothea Elizabeth Orem and it’s an application in surgical care. Chapter IV has shown how the discharge planning process is going. Chapter V and VI discuss the discharge teaching process and how to develop a mini-teaching plan using METHOD. Chapter VII describes the discharge readiness for hospital discharge. Chapter VIII discuss the follow-up care program during the postdischarge phase.