Developing a Discharge Plan

Overview

After reading the following articles: Your patient in this focused exam case study is a 58-year-old male who has a family history of high blood pressure and high cholesterol and begins experiencing chest pain. How you develop his discharge plan? What components would you include and why?

Download or Review the articles:

Brown, M. M. (2018). Transitions of Care. In Chronic Illness Care (pp. 369-373). Springer, Cham

Sexson, K., Lindauer, A., & Harvath, T. A. (2017). Discharge planning and teaching. AJN The American Journal of Nursing, 117(5), 58-60 

Your initial post must be posted before you can view and respond to colleagues, must contain minimum of two (2) references, in addition to examples from your personal experiences to augment the topic. The goal is to make your post interesting and engaging so others will want to read/respond to it. Synthesize and summarize from your resources in order to avoid the use of direct quotes, which can often be dry and boring. No direct quotes are allowed in the discussion board posts.

Post a thoughtful response to at least two (2) other colleagues’ initial postings. Responses to colleagues should be supportive and helpful (examples of an acceptable comment are: “This is interesting – in my practice, we treated or resolved (diagnosis or issue) with (x, y, z meds, theory, management principle) and according to the literature…” and add supportive reference. Avoid comments such as “I agree” or “good comment.”

References:

• Initial Post: Minimum of two (2) total references: one (1) from required course materials and one (1) from peer-reviewed references.
• Response posts: Minimum of one (1) total reference: one (1) from peer-reviewed or course materials reference per response.

Words Limits

• Initial Post: Minimum 200 words excluding references (approximately one (1) page)
• Response posts: Minimum 100 words excluding references.