Question

3 priorities when discharging someone's home I need 3 full paragraph please or two

Answer 1

Why Is Good Discharge Planning So Important?

Effective discharge planning can decrease the chances that your relative is readmitted to the hospital, and can also help in recovery, ensure medications are prescribed and given correctly, and adequately prepare you to take over your loved oneʼs care.

Not all hospitals are successful in this. Although both the American Medical Association and the Joint Commission on the Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) offer recommendations for discharge planning, there is no universally utilized system in US hospitals. Additionally, patients are released from hospitals “quicker and sicker” than in the past, making it even more critical to arrange for good care after release.

The discharge staff will not be familiar with all aspects of your relativeʼs situation. As caregiver, you are the “expert” in your loved oneʼs history. While you may not be a medical expert, if youʼve been a caregiver for a long time, you certainly know a lot about the patient and about your own abilities to provide care and a safe home setting.

The discharge planners should discuss with you your willingness and ability to provide care. You may have physical, financial, or other limitations that affect your caregiving capabilities. You may have other obligations such as a job or childcare that impact the time you have available. It is extremely important to tell hospital discharge staff about those limitations.

common care responsibilities you may be handling for your family member after he or she returns home:

Personal care: bathing, eating, dressing, toiletingPost-discharge self-management can be conceptualised as a three-legged stool comprised of knowledge, planning and ability. The patient needs to know what to do (for instance, take a medication three times a day). The patient also needs to have a plan for how to do it (for instance, use a pill box with three slots per day; fill it accurately on a weekly basis; use a reminder system to signal time for medication). And crucially, the patient has to be able and willing to carry out that plan (for instance, buy the medication and pill box; have some help if needed filling it; be awake at the times needed to take the medication). If any of these key components is removed, the stool falls over.

Healthcare: medication management, physicianʼs appointments, physical therapy, wound treatment, injections, medical equipment and techniques

During the discharge process, members of your healthcare team will provide you with the information you need to make this transition successfully. Your medical team should discuss all of the following with you:

• Your medical condition at the time of discharge
• What kinds of follow-up care you will need, such as physical therapy
• What medications you need to take, including why, when, and how to take them, and possible side effects to watch for
• How to dispose of medicines you no longer need to take
• What medical equipment you will need, and how to get it
• When and how you will receive test results
• Instructions on food and drink, exercise, and activities to avoid
• What you can expect at your new facility, if you’re not going home
• Phone numbers to call if you have a question or problem
• Instructions about when you should call
• Days and times of your follow-up appointments, or information about how to make appointments

Emotional care: companionship, meaningful activities, conversation.Ideally, we should have a pre-ICU assessment of the patients' physical, cognitive and psychological status and quality of life to establish a baseline and then determine the true impact of the disease and/or ICU admission. These data are very difficult to obtain, because in the vast majority of cases, admission to the ICU is not anticipated. On the other hand, most of the tools used by clinicians to evaluate these domains are self-administered