Connect Care Bytes Blog

MARCH 4, 2024

Guide: Patient Movement Guide Guide: Patient Movement Continuing Care Readiness Guide: Home Care and Supportive Living Admissions, Discharges, and Transfers Manual: Readiness Events Contact: connectcare.patientmovement@ahs.ca

Long Term Care 40

Long Term Care Admissions Acute Care Discharges 40

Minority Nurse

APRIL 15, 2024

When nurses are certified in CPR, their patients exhibit improved outcomes from the time of the event to discharge. Training also helps you stay calm when emergencies happen, and your attitude transfers to your patients, reassuring them amid what can be a terrifying episode.

Certification 59

Certification Discharges Transfers Hospital 59

Healthcare Law Insights blog

JUNE 8, 2023

The hospitalist group testified they were: told they would have to lead emergency codes even though hospitalists do not routinely lead codes; pressured to discharge patients earlier, sometimes before the physicians felt the patients were ready; pressured to round on patients in a particular order thought to be more efficient for the hospital; pressured (..)

Hospital 98

Hospital Discharges Transfers Huddles/Rounds 98

Minority Nurse

MARCH 19, 2024

Immediate Access to Clinical Support Virtual nurses regularly assist with tasks that do not require physical proximity to the patient, such as patient-family education, completing admission and discharge tasks, and participating in two-person verification processes.

Admissions 59

Admissions Discharges Collaboration Transfers 59

Relias

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Discharged to community. Toilet transferring. Bed transferring. Management of oral medications. This measure also includes two aggregate measures, which are called total normalized composite (TNC) self-care and TNC mobility. TNC measures include the following: TNC Self-Care. TNC Mobility. Dressing upper and lower body.

Transfers 52

Transfers Acute Care Follow-Up Discharges 52

Arkenea

JULY 2, 2024

CDA The HL7 CDA (Clinical Document Architecture) is an XML-based standard that offers a structure or format for sharing clinical data such as progress notes, discharge summaries, and consultation notes. HL7 Messages are used to transfer healthcare data between disparate systems, each sending information about events such as patient admission.

Documentation 52

Documentation Follow-Up Discharges Transfers 52

Minority Nurse

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Conclusion Mr. Salzo, transferred to an oncology unit, begins cancer treatment. Alert and anxious, use of accessory muscles of respiration, respiratory distress RR- 32 breaths per minute and labored, BP- 143/88 mm Hg, T- 100.3 and HgB- 7.2 The bedside nurse leader provides him with education about his new diagnosis.

Triage 105

Triage Diagnostics Collaboration Vital Signs 105

Setting Sights

MAY 7, 2021

Before my eventual transfer to another hospital, 8.5 I will, once discharged from this long hospital admission, be seeking how to better educate and inform both medical colleagues and patients of rarer symptom presentations.

Admissions 52

Admissions Follow-Up Huddles/Rounds Hospital 52

Relias

APRIL 6, 2022

Failures to follow transfer or discharge requirements. CMS has instructed state survey agencies to prioritize surveys of nursing homes that: Report new COVID-19 cases and have low vaccination rates. Are special-focus facilities. Have a history of: Complaints of abuse or neglect. Infection control issues. Care quality issues.

Acute Care 52

Acute Care Follow-Up Long Term Care Discharges 52