Quality Value-Driven Nursing Care

Jose, Great discussion on the roles nurses play in providing quality value-driven nursing care. I think most hospitals have some procedure for making post discharge follow up phone calls. I know I was impressed when I received a phone call from my physician’s PA after being discharged from the hospital. These phone calls and protocols such you mentioned with the Coordinated-Transitional Care (C-TraC) helps to significantly bring down the number of re-admits to hospitals and healthcare facilities (Axon, 2014). Before reading your discussion I had not heard of C-Trac, but I work in a facility in Nevada and this program was begun Wisconsin (Kind, 2012). I, like you, feel this is an important value-driven healthcare service that nurses are