This week’s graded topic relates to the following Course Outcome (CO).

CO7: Integrates the professional role of leader, teacher, communicator, and manager of care to plan cost-effective, quality healthcare to consumers in structured and unstructured settings. (PO#7)

Planning for our patients during times of transitions (for example: hospital to home, home to rehabilitation facility) involves collaboration with a number of healthcare professionals. Please address the following questions:

How does your facility promote interprofessional collaboration during times of patient transitions?
What is the role of the nurse in patient transitions?
What gaps can you identify in this process related to quality of care? (If you are not currently in practice, please use a previous role or clinical experience in your answers.)

Solution:

The increasing complexity of the healthcare system in the United States as well as resource limitations has called for interprofesional collaboration. One of the main areas that have demanded interprofesional coloration is patient transition of care (American Nurses Association, 2015). This is the movement of patients between healthcare practitioners, settings, and home. Transition of care is attributed to the need for change as a result of changes in patients’ conditions. According to Karazivan et al. (2015), effective collaboration among providers, patients and caregivers is considered imperative to effective care transitions. This is due to the fact that it helps in reducing rates of hospital readmissions, medication errors, inconsistent patient monitoring, and delay in diagnosis among others. Consequently, the quality of care given to the patients is affected detrimentally…Please click the Paypal icon below to purchase full solution for only $5