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A quality improvement project identified specific factors nurses consider in assessing outpatient discharge readiness, which were incorporated into a patient discharge assessment checklist.
This quality improvement project identified factors for outpatient surgery discharge to create standardized educational programs and assessment checklists for nurses.
May inform standardized discharge education in ambulatory surgery; hypothesis-generating and requires prospective validation before adoption.
Discharge of an outpatient surgical patient to home implies that the patient is clinically stable and capable, to some degree, of self-care. Nurses currently have no formal evidence-based clinical criteria to assist them in determining outpatient surgical patients' readiness for discharge to home. Nurses often make discharge decisions based on their education, experience, and personal beliefs. The goal of this quality improvement project was to identify specific factors that outpatient surgery nurses consider in assessing readiness of patients for discharge. The results were used to develop orientation and educational programs for outpatient surgery staff members and were incorporated into a patient discharge assessment checklist.
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Kingdon et al. (2006) studied Outpatient surgery. Quality improvement project to identify discharge factors was evaluated on Factors considered in assessing readiness for discharge. A quality improvement project identified specific factors nurses consider in assessing outpatient discharge readiness, which were incorporated into a patient discharge assessment checklist.
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