Responses to Other Students: Respond to at least 1 of your fellow classmates with at least a 250-word reply about their Primary Task Response regarding items you found to be compelling and enlightening. To help you with your discussion, please consider the following questions:
- What did you learn from your classmate’s posting?
- What additional questions do you have after reading the posting?
- What clarification do you need regarding the posting?
- What differences or similarities do you see between your posting and other classmates’ postings?
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With the intervention of implementing a heart failure education bundle program, there are many positive outcomes I would expect to measure with my patients. The main objective we would be measuring, however, is the readmission rate of heart failure patients to the hospital within 30-days after discharge. By increasing education of the disease process and importance of treatment adherence, the hope would be to decrease readmission rates. We would track readmissions to the hospital in patients who were recently discharged within 30 days. Upon readmission, we would interview the patient to follow up with their education program. These details would include why the patient thinks they were readmitted, note any medication or diet noncompliance, and ask the patient their thoughts on their treatment plan and care goals. We would also do an intake of quantitative data, looking at information like their weight compared to last admission discharge weight, labs such as BNP, electrolytes, ejection fraction, troponin and kidney function levels. The quantitative and qualitative data collected by each patient would hopefully give us a good idea as to why they were readmitted and how to prevent this in the future.
If this intervention is successful and the readmission rates of patients with heart failure are decreased, this would lead to many positive outcomes. Alhabib et al. (2024), explains how overcrowding in emergency rooms puts patients at risk for deterioration, lower satisfaction of quality of care, higher financial costs, and longer than necessary stays. Research done by Han et al. (2022) found that longer length of stays were associated with increased risk of readmissions and mortality. In comparison patients who are discharged within 28 days were less likely to be readmitted or experience post-discharge mortality. With the success of this educational intervention, patients with heart failure would spend less time in the hospital and therefore in the emergency room. This would create more time for treatment of other emergencies, lower wait times, and improve patient satisfaction scores leading to better overall quality of care.
Based on these outcomes, nurses would have more time to care for other emergencies. Quality of care would improve, leading to not only improved patient satisfaction but also help the nurses feel more satisfied with the care they are able to provide. Those receiving this heart failure intervention would have less risk of being readmitted, resulting in a decreased risk of mortality and deterioration. By having the education needed to adhere to their treatment plan, these patients will have an overall improved quality of life and have their disease appropriately managed.
References
Alhabib, A., Almutairi, M., & Alqurashi, H. (2024). Patient-centered care models effectiveness in reducing patient waiting time in the emergency department: A systematic literature review. Saudi Journal of Health Systems Research, 4(3), 103-113.
Han, T. S., Murray, P., Robin, J., Wilkinson, P., Fluck, D., & Fry, C. H. (2022). Evaluation of the association with length of stay in hospital and outcomes. International Journal for Quality in Health Care, 34(2).
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