Hospital Discharge of Respiratory-Technology-Dependent Children: Role of a Dedicated Respiratory Care Discharge Coordinator

摘要: BACKGROUND: Preparation of respiratory-technology-dependent children for hospital discharge presents many challenges. Adequate training and education parental caregivers, planning, coordination with the durable-medical-equipment home-nursing companies must be completed. A process using multiple respiratory therapists (RTs) to achieve this may not efficient. METHODS: We evaluated our model, in which a dedicated RT coordinator provides coordinates planning pediatric patients. This system single contact caregivers outside agencies, respiratory-care educator clinical pathway that involves entire multidisciplinary team. Patient length stay customer satisfaction were before after implementation discharge-coordinator program. RESULTS: Our dedicated-RT-discharge-coordinator model was associated rapid initiation frequent family-training sessions. Durable-medical-equipment-company personnel reported they had increased quality family caregivers. The members team process. nonsignificantly decreased CONCLUSIONS: There are several advantages RT-discharge-coordinator home-discharge preparation children.