Connect Care Bytes Blog

AUGUST 19, 2024

Building a Better Health Record (BBHR) As part of our documentation quality improvement initiative , we promote practical ways for clinicians to provide clear and actionable communication at transitions of care. Demo: Discharge Readiness Integrated Planner Manual: Transition Planning

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Relias

MARCH 17, 2023

Improve staff communication. Perhaps not surprisingly, they share a common element — they all depend on good communication practices at the organizational, team, and individual levels. Whether communicating with care team members or directly with patients, using two ways to confirm a patient’s identity must be embedded in your process.

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Sensible Medicine

MAY 31, 2023

Luciana Luciana’s discharge day was getting close. I came to her room for rounds in the morning. I’ll have it done by the time I discharge.” Sandra had been admitted weeks before Luciana and would not be discharged for a few more weeks to come. Sensible Medicine is a reader-supported publication.

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EvidenceCare

APRIL 16, 2024

A compliance measure calculates the percentage of patients discharged in the appropriate inpatient or observation bed status—a determinant that can result in major financial repercussions if misclassified. The goal for the compliance measure is to have over 95% of discharges compliant.

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Minority Nurse

MAY 10, 2023

But her education journey has provided unique, colorful, resourceful, well-rounded, and practical real-life experiences that helped mold Benjamin into the nurse leader she is today. Because people go to the hospital, they receive care, get discharged, and then they’re in the community with whatever resources they have.

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Accepted Blog

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

If it’s been 8 weeks since you applied to one of these latter schools, and you haven’t received a secondary, you should do three things: First, confirm that the school accepts communications and/or additional materials. Did your experiences and meaningful experiences reflect a well-rounded candidate? Hard copy updates are not accepted.

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Accepted Blog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Students either in MCIM or in my other classes on campus are doing work on discharge planning tools, research for rare disease platforms. And so not only do we have to communicate across disciplines, but we have to communicate across generations of technology users. And so that leads to lots of really interesting insights.

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