Discharge Plan And Checklist | VA Birmingham Health Care

My plan to look after myself at discharge and my opinion about my care plan guidelines.

MY OPINION ABOUT MY CARE PLAN IS KNOWN

The medical crew concerned me in designing my plan of care.
- Your healthcare crew must contain you in designing the plan of care to your therapy. Please attain out to your nurse or medical social employee to make sure you are a part of designing your therapy.
The medical crew understands my considerations.
- Private preferences and beliefs are thought-about when creating your individualized plan of care. Your non secular, cultural, and social beliefs can have a significant influence on precisely how healthcare is delivered to you. Make sure your healthcare crew understands your views and attain out to them together with your views.
I perceive the therapy I’ll obtain.
- The advantages of affected person involvement in care planning are huge; it reduces anxious feelings, improves general high quality of life, reduces affected person dissatisfaction, and permits for a a lot higher affected person compliance are only a few.

I HAVE A PLAN TO CARE FOR MYSELF AT DISCHARGE

I do know when my subsequent appointment is.
- Your discharge paperwork will inform you about any follow-ups your care crew has scheduled or referred you to. Be sure that you deliver all needed documentation and knowledge to your appointment.
I do know what to do (the place to go/who to name) in case of an emergency.
- Ought to something surprising happen, I understand how to contact my healthcare crew. The first telephone quantity to contact my nurse/physician is _______________.
I understand how to note the early onset of these items
- An infection
  - Temperature Enhance
  - Change in Abdomen/Bowel
    - Nausea/Vomiting
    - Diarrhea/Constipation/Change in BM’s
  - Headache
  - Physique ache
- Coronary heart Assault
  - Tightness/Stretching sensation in chest
  - Chest ache
  - Sweating
  - Weak point/Nausea
  - Sense of ‘impending doom.’
- Stroke
  - Sudden change in psychological standing or confusion
  - Numbness (particularly within the face, limbs, or on one aspect of the physique)
  - Bother talking or bother listening to what others are saying
I do know what medicines I’ll want.
- The pharmacy or nurse ought to focus on your medicines with you. They are going to inform you the medicines you have to to take, what every remedy does, how typically you have to to take the remedy, how lengthy the prescription will final, potential unwanted effects of the remedy, in addition to many different points of your therapy.
I do know what sorts of meals to eat and what to keep away from.
- Sure medical points would require sufferers to stick to sure dietary restrictions after their hospital keep. Sufferers ought to perceive the confines of their limitations, why they need to comply with the prescribed food regimen, and impacts the food regimen could have on their well being.
I understand how to maintain my pores and skin wholesome.
- Holding dangerous micro organism out and good micro organism in is the first mission of our pores and skin. Any damaged pores and skin is a possible entry level for dangerous micro organism and needs to be fastidiously taken care of. Pores and skin look after surgical wounds or any type of lesion/abrasion/laceration needs to be given utmost precedence each throughout your hospital keep and after you might be discharged.
- Making certain that your mouth stays clear and freed from particles/micro organism is confirmed to be a solution to scale back the speed of pneumonia. Be sure to maintain your mouth clear!!