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Successful Discharge Care Amanda Thompson, RN BN Safer Healthcare Now! Coordinator

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Successful Discharge Care. Amanda Thompson, RN BN Safer Healthcare Now! Coordinator. Our Story. Notre Dame Bay Memorial Health Centre has 49 beds Providing service to Twillingate and 16 other small communities. Population served approx. 5,000 primarily, elderly clients - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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Successful Discharge Care

Amanda Thompson, RN BN Safer Healthcare Now!

Coordinator

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Our Story

• Population served approx. 5,000 primarily, elderly clients

• 96% of admissions through ED

• Notre Dame Bay Memorial Health Centre has 49 beds

• Providing service to Twillingate and 16 other small communities

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Aim Statement

• To decrease our mortality rate by 20% by implementing all 6 elements over the next 6 weeks

• Very ambitious goal• Very ambitious team

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Aim Statement

• We wanted to have perfect discharge care

• Having all the components • Road to recovery

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• SHN Coordinator• ER Physician• Nurse Manager• Floor Nurse• Education Coordinator• Pharmacy Representative

Our Team

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Creating an Environment of Change

• Staff Education• Public education• Form changes• Statistics• Resources already

available

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Beta Blockers on Discharge

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Beta Blocker on Discharge

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ASA on Discharge

90% 90%

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ASA on Discharge

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ACE or ARB on Discharge

60%

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ACE on Discharge

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Statin on Discharge

66.66%

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Statins on Discharge

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Challenges

• Smokers helpline

• Computer systems

• Documentation

• Buy in

• Education

• Changing thought process

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Lessons Learned

• Change is hard• Buy in required• Education is the

key• The desire to

know

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Where are we now?

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Beta Blocker ACE or ARB ASA Statin

Discharge Medications

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What’s Next

Continue to: »Monitor»Information»Compliance reports

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We have changed the way we treat

AMI patients in Twillingate, and have paved the way for the rest

of the region.

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Contact Information

Amanda Thompson, Safer Healthcare Now! Coordinator

Central HealthGrand Falls-Windsor, NLPhone: 709-292-2647Email: [email protected]

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Thank You!