discharge planning
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?
Brown, M. M. (2018). Transitions of Care. In Chronic Illness Care (pp. 369-373). Springer, Cham.
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Sexson, K., Lindauer, A., & Harvath, T. A. (2017). Discharge planning and teaching. AJN The American Journal of Nursing, 117(5), 58-60.
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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.
References:
- Initial Post: Minimum of two (2) total references: one (1) from required course materials and one (1) from peer-reviewed references.
Words Limits
- Initial Post: Minimum 200 words excluding references (approximately one (1) page)
Note: Since it is difficult to edit the APA reference in the Blackboard discussion area, you can copy and paste APA references from your Word document to the Blackboard discussion area. Points will not be deducted because of format changes in spacing.
Instructions
To be successful, complete the following steps in order:
STEP 1. Review the instructional materials and finish learning activities for this module.
STEP 2. Click here to download the rubric.
STEP 3. Create a new Word document, type your initial post.
STEP 4. Copy the initial post from the Word document.
STEP 5. Click on “DISCUSSIONS” section located on the left-hand side of your screen in Blackboard.
STEP 6. Post in the discussion forum titled “M4 A16 DB: DISCHARGE PLAN”