Nursing Readmission Alert Discharge Plan
This resource is a modified version of the LACE tool, focused on nursing; and incorporating additional checklists for more comprehensive discharge planning and assessment.
Population Health Management organizes systems of care for populations and ensuring costly interventions are prevented, such as hospital admissions, readmissions, or emergency department visits. This section contains structure, process, and outcomes in population monitoring/identification, teamwork and collaboration, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, safety, and informatics.
This resource is a modified version of the LACE tool, focused on nursing; and incorporating additional checklists for more comprehensive discharge planning and assessment.
The LACE tool is one of meany designed to assess risk of patient readmission or death upon discharge.
The 8P Screening Tool is designed to identify a patient's risk for adverse events after discharge.
The National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators® (NDNQI®) delivers evidence to support the importance of nurse sensitive measures in overall patient experience strategy.
The CALNOC registry captures and benchmarks unit data, structural measures, process measures, and outcome measures.
Dementia Care MappingTM is designed to empower staff teams to engage in evidence-based critical reflection in order to improve the quality of care for people living with dementia. It provides a direct and ongoing evidence base for practice and practice change. As such, it provides an excellent example of the principles of care mapping, in general; for any condition.
Team Strategies & Tools to Enhance Performance and Patient Safety (TeamSTEPPS) is an evidence-based framework to optimize team performance across the health care delivery system. The communication tools within this framework are excellent guidelines for hand-off communications during care transition.
A functional assessment tool used for care planning with the geriatric patient.
The law provides numerous rights and protections that make health coverage more fair and easy to understand, along with subsidies (through “premium tax credits” and “cost-sharing reductions”) to make it more affordable; including expanding the Medicaid program to cover more people with low incomes.
The IHI Triple Aim is a framework developed by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement that describes an approach to optimizing health system performance.