CAHE Discharge Planning for patients and health professionals
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CAHE is committed to well structured and successful discharge planning. There are many practical issues patients may face when returning home from hospital and there can be many expected costs, financially and emotionally when a patient is unprepared for the return home. As a world leader in the field of Discharge Planning CAHE has produced a pilot DVD that will empower patients, their carers and family members to consider the practical issues about going home.
The CAHE Discharge Planning Pilot DVD, From hospital to home, is designed to be played on internal hospital broadcast systems, and is complemented by a detailed printed Patient's Checklist.
CAHE also provides printed checklists for clinicians to aid health practitioner training and highlight patient discharge issues, such as reducing re-hospitalisation and patient distress.
One minute excerpt of the CAHE Discharge Planning Pilot DVD: From hospital to homeIf you would like more information on the CAHE Discharge Planning Pilot DVD please contact:
Michelle Guerin, CAHE Discharge Planning Project Officer.
CAHE Discharge Planning
Returning home from hospital can often be a confusing or difficult time for patients. Patients often receive a lot of information on procedures, medications, changes in their health condition and rehabilitation, and this can sometimes be a little overwhelming. There are many factors for a patient, their carers and their healthcare team to consider upon discharge from hospital. These can include:
- Changes to physical capabilities
- New or temporary limitations that might place an unexpected impact on daily living
- Changes to diet
- Medications and dosage
- Review appointments with the patient's healthcare team and managing this sometimes confusing schedule
- How the patient's recovery should progress
- And many other issues that have may not have been encountered previously
Carefully planned Discharge Planning has been demonstrated to minimise problems patients may experience after leaving hospital. Hospital Discharge Planning (DCP) provides an opportunity to bring together the patient, healthcare team and patient's family/carers to address any issues or potential difficulties that may arise, thereby helping the patient return home safely.
Discharge planning has become increasingly important as the average hospital length of stay declines. CAHE has spent many years of research in the area of hospital discharge planning and has designed arrange DCP tools and processes to assist patients and their families as well as healthcare practitioners. CAHE is committed to providing information on best practice for people being discharged from hospital and has developed a number of tools that will simplify what can be a confusing and distressful period.
For patients and their families CAHE has provided the CAHE Patient Discharge Planning Checklist, an incredibly useful document that includes all areas of patient discharge from hospital that patients often forget to consider. For many patients this may be their first time in hospital, or that they are faced with this potentially stressful transition and the CAHE Patient Discharge Planning Checklist can provides ways to solve problems before they arise.
For the Healthcare Practitioner or team member CAHE has provided a range of detailed discharge processes that facilitate the patient's transition from hospital to home. These tools also provide practitioners with a method of assessment enabling them to evaluate their discharge planning processes from both the patients and communities service provider's perspective.