Essay On Nursing Home Discharge
It is hard to believe there are only fifteen days left in our internship sites. I can truly say this has been an amazing experience and I am so fortunate to have ended up at UNC Lenoir. This week I actually did a complete discharge from beginning to end by myself. At our patient care plan meeting on Wednesday my patient and her husband agreed that it was not safe for her to return back home. They decided that they would like to have a skilled nursing home placement near the Kinston area. We were able to have her placed at Signature Healthcare in the heart of Kinston by the hospital. She and her husband were very pleased that she was able to stay nearby. The discharge process begins after the care plan meetings on Wednesday when we find out
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Before being able to go to any facility you have to have a chest x ray that is less than 90 days old to make sure you don’t have tuberculous. After you create a patient information packet you send it to the admissions coordinators at the local facilities. They usually give you a call back in 1-2 days with a bed offer or a decline. Once you get an approval from a facility you let the patient and their family know and if they are happy then you proceed onward. On Friday you call the hospitalist to let them know that the patient will be transferring to a facility. The doctor then completes a discharge summary and you create a new patient packet to send with the patient and fax to the facility prior to them discharging.
The discharge packet includes some of the same info as a referral packet but a more detailed medication review from the medical records system and the summary from the doctor. After you get all of that information together you call the facility and ask what time they can come. The facility gives you a time and then you call to schedule transport. A nursing home discharge is fairly easy because the most important part is making sure they have the information they need about the patient. I was a little nervous but very excited to complete this task by myself for the first
Before being able to go to any facility you have to have a chest x ray that is less than 90 days old to make sure you don’t have tuberculous. After you create a patient information packet you send it to the admissions coordinators at the local facilities. They usually give you a call back in 1-2 days with a bed offer or a decline. Once you get an approval from a facility you let the patient and their family know and if they are happy then you proceed onward. On Friday you call the hospitalist to let them know that the patient will be transferring to a facility. The doctor then completes a discharge summary and you create a new patient packet to send with the patient and fax to the facility prior to them discharging.
The discharge packet includes some of the same info as a referral packet but a more detailed medication review from the medical records system and the summary from the doctor. After you get all of that information together you call the facility and ask what time they can come. The facility gives you a time and then you call to schedule transport. A nursing home discharge is fairly easy because the most important part is making sure they have the information they need about the patient. I was a little nervous but very excited to complete this task by myself for the first