Medical Xpress September 25, 2023
Managing transitions in care for older adults and their family caregivers, no matter the care setting, is especially challenging in a rapidly changing health care system. Patient discharges that typically require prescription writing, discharge summary creation, and team consultations for home care entail more complex coordination and planning.
In a new article in the Journal of Professional Nursing, educators and researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing (Penn Nursing) share practices describing how the Transitional Care Model (TCM) has successfully been incorporated into nurse practitioner curricula to address this issue. The article explains how the TCM’s evidence-based interventions have helped better prepare nurse practitioners to engage acute care providers to more effectively manage the care coordination of older...
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