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J Pediatr Nurs
November 2024
Nicklaus Children's Hospital, 3100 SW 62(nd) Ave, Miami, FL 33155, USA.
Purpose: Elevated rates of 30-day readmission for children with epilepsy were noted at a stand-alone pediatric acute care facility. To address this issue, a standardized pathway was created and implemented in 2017. The main objective was to ensure that patients with epilepsy and their families were adequately prepared for discharge and the transition to home.
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March 2024
College of Nursing and Health Care Professions, Grand Canyon University, Phoenix, AZ, USA.
Purpose: Thirty-day readmissions often occur in rehabilitation patients and can happen for many reasons. One of those reasons is when patients do not fully understand how to effectively manage their health after discharge. The purpose of this evidence-based quality improvement project was to determine if implementing the teach-back intervention from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's (AHRQ) Health Literacy Universal Precautions Toolkit would impact 30-day readmission rates among adult rehabilitation patients.
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June 2023
Medicine, Western University, London, Ontario, Canada
Background: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, many areas of medicine transitioned to virtual care. For patients with diabetes admitted to hospital, this included diabetes education and insulin teaching. Shifting to a virtual model of insulin teaching created new challenges for inpatient certified diabetes educators (CDE).
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June 2023
Department of Critical Care Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.
The use of home mechanical ventilation is increasingly developing. The present study aimed to examine the effect of a family-centered training program on patients under home invasive mechanical ventilation. A total of 60 adult patients under invasive mechanical ventilation were selected and randomly allocated into two groups.
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