Care Transitions

Catalog description

This course will explore the movement of patients and families/caregivers between health care providers, different levels of care, and healthcare settings during the course of chronic or acute illnesses. Care transitions will provide the learner with insight into the critical role of the registered professional nurse as the coordinator of the healthcare team in the development of a culturally competent, comprehensive patient and family/caregiver-centered complex plan of care. This includes assessing and addressing the level of engagement in self-management and "compliance." Current validated models used to optimize transitions in care and improve client outcomes, such as readmission rates and medication errors, will be introduced along with principles of adult learning, how to identify health literacy and literacy deficits, and how to tailor appropriate education into daily practice.