Enhancing patient education through clinical nurse specialist collaboration
| Autor: | Katherine Chick, Beth Sievers, Kristin D. F. Negley, Karyl J. Tammel |
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| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Quality Assurance Health Care Leadership and Management Attitude of Health Personnel Nursing Records Psychological intervention Assessment and Diagnosis Nursing Staff Hospital Clinical nurse specialist Clinical Nursing Research Documentation Nursing Patient Education as Topic Acute care Medicine Humans Cooperative Behavior Electronic systems Advanced and Specialized Nursing Practice Patterns Nurses' business.industry LPN and LVN Nursing Evaluation Research Electronic data business Nurse Clinicians Hospital Units Patient education |
| Zdroj: | Clinical nurse specialist CNS. 26(6) |
| ISSN: | 1538-9782 |
| Popis: | PURPOSE The purpose of this article was to describe a collaborative clinical nurse specialist (CNS) project to enhance the patient education provided by registered nurses across 7 medical nursing units in an acute care hospital. BACKGROUND Electronic data reviews assisted the medical CNSs with identifying a deficit in using appropriate education plans and documentation of patient education. DESCRIPTION OF THE PROJECT The interventions implemented included the creation of new patient education brochures, updating the electronic system to enhance nurses' ability to provide patient education materials and to simplify documentation, creating a video-on-demand education channel, and ensuring that patient education materials were easily accessible. OUTCOME Postassessment results showed that nurses' reported use of disease-specific education plan increased 33%. The staff's perception of the importance of documenting patient education provided also increased 9%. CONCLUSION This project demonstrates CNSs' ability to design, develop, and implement a systematic and structured process to promote a consistent way for medical nurses to utilize the best disease-specific patient education resources. IMPLICATIONS : With hospital stays being shorter and patients more acutely ill, partnering with the patients in learning how to manage their care as they transition from the hospital to home is key to help prevent hospital readmissions. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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