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Nurse health coaches (NHCs) may be one way we can help pa-tients adopt lifestyle changes and prevent revolving-door admissions. What is an NHC? NHCs are taught to keep an open mind, focus on what patients per-ceive to be barriers to a desired goal, and help them recognize their strengths.
Oct 10, 2014 · Discharge planning and involvement of a home-care transition coach — either a nurse or social worker — has been shown to facilitate implementation of the patient’s recovery goals in the community and reduce the risk of recurrent admissions, as well as being cost-effective compared with usual care. 8 Disappointingly, the interventions ...
- Cara Tannenbaum
- 2014
The Problem We are Trying to Solve. Local data shows 42% of hospital readmissions that happen within 4 weeks will happen within 7 days of the last admission. Lack of communication & collaboration between acute care & primary care = providers not having all of the information + uncoordinated patient care.
Registered Nurses are most suitable for implementing health coaching for self-care, including preventing and managing chronic illness and recovering from situations like post-surgical needs. Nurses already promote health, and therefore, are skilled in educating people in self-care.
- Coaching Interventions
- Number of Coaches
- Length of Intervention
- Duration of Each Coaching Session
- Preparation of Coaches
Following section summarized the findings in relation to the types of coaching interventions used for health coaching (Table 3).
The number of coaches used is important for quality assurance of the coaching intervention. The number of coaches involved in each study varied between studies. Of 17 articles included, there were three articles [34, 40, 43] which did not specify the number of coaches that were involved. Of those studies which stated number of coaches (14 studies),...
The length of intervention varied from one week for post-surgery to 18 months for chronic illness management. The average duration of intervention across the studies was eight months. Number of coaching sessions offered varied from three to 12 sessions with average of seven coaching sessions provided throughout the duration of the coaching interven...
The duration of each coaching session varied between studies, with a minimum of ten-minutes to the maximum of 120-minutes. Of 17 studies, four studies [34, 37, 39, 44] did not report the duration of each session. In all the studies, which specified the duration of their coaching sessions, first coaching session are likely to be longer in comparison...
Education and training of nurses prior to coaching was seen as a variable that may explain why some studies showed or did not show efficiency for coaching to improve the chronic conditions. Coaching is not a regulated practice at this point of time and therefore coaching generally has a range of education and training courses, with many not providi...
- Jennieffer Barr, Lily Pei-San Tsai
- 2021
May 13, 2020 · The revolving door of readmissions keeps spinning for patients who report symptoms of shortness of breath and cough. Many variables affect hospital readmissions.
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Mar 22, 2024 · This study aims to identify the methods that support increasing the level of daily physical activity and the sociodemographic, occupational, and health-related factors that influence the effectiveness of motivation methods in increasing daily physical activity among nurses.
