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BBHR: Integrated Discharge Planning Tool Eases Team Edits

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Integrated Discharge Planning 'Traffic Lights' The Rapid Rounds patient list includes a "Readiness" column with 'traffic light' symbols indicative of a patient's readiness for discharge. Demo: Discharge Readiness Integrated Planner Manual: Transition Planning

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Enhancing Patient Satisfaction with the 5 Ps of Nursing Rounding

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The healthcare industry attempts to enhance patient satisfaction in hospitals through the implementation of the 5 Ps of nursing rounding. The 5 Ps The five Ps in the model for nursing rounding are Pain, Position, Personal needs, Proximity, and Patient Education.

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BBHR: Expanded Access to Improved Transition Planning Tools

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Expanded Access to Improved Transition Planning Tools Connect Care provides a set of integrated supports that can help clinicians anticipate and plan for a patient's discharge from hospital. A SHS column can be added to Rapid Rounds (and other) patient lists. All have been enhanced in response to user feedback.

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NICU Nurse Adopts Teen Mom of Three Preemie Triplets

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When Small’s babies were discharged from the hospital several months after she gave birth, Mullen asked if they could exchange numbers, and the two have been a part of each other’s lives ever since. Fortunately, Katrina Mullen was the nurse assigned to look after Small’s children.

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Nurse Emeritus Combats Staff Shortages by Keeping Retired Nurses Engaged

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Having E-RNs to do discharge planning, do rounds with patients, and ensure patients understand their medication goes a long way to preventing readmission and improving the health of the population we serve.” They can walk down the hall and sense when things are not right.

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Preparing for CERT Audits and Practicing Compliant Documentation

EvidenceCare

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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Doctors’ tributes to nurses in real life

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He recalls the incident clearly: “I had been up all night, on call, and the next morning I was making rounds, visiting some very sick infants,” he explains. “I If a patient has recently been discharged from hospital, she’ll obtain the hospital records because she knows I’ll want to see them.