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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 21, 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
Session Objectives. Understand the benefits from hospital and primary care perspectives of working together to address hospital readmissions versus working in silos. Explain how care transitions impact avoidable and unavoidable readmissions for populations at risk. Understand why COPD /CHF populations were targeted.
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.
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.
Jun 1, 2011 · Seeking to address the human and substantial financial burden of revolving door hospital re-admissions, the Affordable Care Act proposes a number of initiatives to improve care and health...
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Considering the social burden and the pressure on inpatient services caused by revolving door patients, it is important to understand the factors that may contribute to this phenomenon to develop interventions that could reduce the prevalence of recidivism.
