Hospital to Home: Getting to the Heart of Care Transitions
February 22, 2012
As home care nurses we often enter into the homes and into the lives of our patients during a period of intense crisis. We are tasked with setting up a plan for recovery from the immediate illness, and for the avoidance of any future hospitalizations. With all that this responsibility entails, it’s easy to lose sight of how important for recovery it is to reassure both patients and caregivers, and to make sure that all involved understand the plan. I recently had a patient, ...
