Nurse Facilitated Hospital Discharge Planning in an Elderly Unit Literature review

Nurse Facilitated Hospital fall behind Planning in an Elderly Unit - Literature review ExamplePatients with interlacing care necessitates, including frail and elderly or those with mental problems, may require continuing care in special housing, residential or nursing homes, and need a package of care to support them back to good health after infirmary discharge (McKenna et al, 2000, p.594-601). Such population demands effective discharge arrangements. Discharge planning is a facet of the overall care of the patient, developed through the application of the nursing process (Watts, 2005). It is a process that is dependent on inter-professional coaction between health and welfare professionals (Atwal, 2002). Study of problems of discharging patients from infirmarys have been in focus during the last two decades, and some of the shortcomings identified are poor communication between infirmary and community inadequate notice of discharge over-reliance in informed support and lack of support inattention to patients needs ahead leaving hospital and wasted or duplicated visits by community nurses (McKenna et al, 2000, p.594-601). Cost effective, coordinated, high-quality discharge planning is integral to control increasing healthcare costs and hospital personnel must become more adept at preparing patients for discharge as there is a decrease in length of acute hospital stay, and increase in care shift to communities and homes (Lalani & Gulzar, 2001). Aged care assessment team (ACAT) model, operating in Australia, may be helpful in streamlining hospital discharge process in the U.K. (Robinson & Street, 2003). ACAT, a key multidisciplinary group primarily comprising nurses and paramedical staff, is involved in determining the discharge needs of older deal Hence, decreasing length of patient stay in hospitals is paramount agenda in every health care planner and eliminating long waiting lists and liberation up of blocked beds could be possible with effective and e fficient discharge planning procedures.