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BBHR: Integrated Discharge Planning Tool Eases Team Edits

Connect Care Bytes Blog

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

Guideway Care

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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Nurse Emeritus Combats Staff Shortages by Keeping Retired Nurses Engaged

Scrubs

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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Doctors’ tributes to nurses in real life

Scrubs

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.

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Aflac Finds Health Care and Financial Stress will “Dampen 2021 Holiday Magic” in U.S. Households

Health Populi

In fact, medical bill angst in America isn’t just a December holidays thing: they’re a year-round source of anxiety, Aflac found. Note double-digit increases, year-over-year, for labor and drug expenses, both overall and per adjusted discharge. Total expenses per adjusted discharge all-in grew by 11.6%.

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Highs and Lows

Sensible Medicine

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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Doctor’s Failure to Follow Up on Medical Test Leads to Large Settlement

Pulmonology Advisor - Practice Management

Case Facts Mr W, the patient, was a veteran who had been honorably discharged after serving 9 years in the Army, working as a mechanic. The scan of Mr W’s left lung revealed a complicated bulla (a rounded air-filled space in the lung, often found in emphysema and COPD, which has been linked to lung cancer in some cases1,2).