Case Reports
Discharge Planning Nurse Training in the hospital wards
Analysis and evaluation one year after the commencement of the training program
2014 Volume 15 Issue 2 Pages 119-123
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2014 Volume 15 Issue 2 Pages 119-123
In 2009, the Health Networking Center of K University Hospital launched a plan for the development of discharge planning nurses in hospital wards. In 2010, 26 nurses selected from all wards were given a training program and in 2011, a discharge planning body was organized around this group of participating nurses, Now this body of nurse group coordinates discharge planning operations in all wards with the program-graduated nurses at each station.
Three self-administered questionnaires were conducted；before and after the training program and one year later, to ask the participants for the evaluation scales of the discharge planning and the changes of their awareness, action and nursing activities regarding the hospital discharge coordination. The results of 19 nurse respondents show a dramatic enhancement of their consciousness within one year after the training program and the significant increase in the number of nurses tries to obtain the information of societal resources and to transcend their specialties of the discharge planning. Also, the number of nurses taking real action of the discharge coordination in the hospital increased. Those nurses indicate the alteration in their nursing behavior toward hospitalized patients like collecting the information and implementing an intervention considering patients' lives after discharge from the very beginning.
Thus, it can be concluded that the training program has a beneficial influence on nurses' awareness and actions regarding the discharge planning and is quite useful as a multiple learning style. However, it does not mean that all process has been practiced completely. We need to utilize grand round and regular meetings for the discharge planning actively and to continue the promotion of education. Through the training program, the discharge planning should be addressed not only among discharge planning nurses but also in an entire hospital with positively enlisting cooperation from doctors and ward staff members.
