Get Ready for Discharge- Postpartum Unit Modifies Delivery of Care to Enhance Readiness

Sunday, June 14, 2015

Title: Get Ready for Discharge- Postpartum Unit Modifies Delivery of Care to Enhance Readiness

Promenade Ballroom (Long Beach Convention Center)
Dona L. Meringer, MSN, RNC-MNN, HBN-BC , Mother/Baby Unit, The Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ
Beth McGovern, MSN, RNC-OB , Mother/Baby Unit, The Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ
Kate Amin, BSN, RNC-MNN , Mother/Baby Unit, The Valley Hospital, Ridgewood, NJ

Discipline: Childbearing (CB), Newborn Care (N)

Learning Objectives:
  • Identify optimal strategies for preparing postpartum patients for discharge.
  • Describe methods to ensure consistent and accurate information provided to postpartum patients
  • Discuss measurement outcomes for patients' perception of readiness for discharge.

    • Submission Description:
    To improve our patient’s experience and to increase patients’ perception of preparedness for discharge, our postpartum unit embarked on a care delivery model revision

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