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Cultural diversity between hospital and community nurses: implications for continuity of care
- Authors:
- HELLESO Ragnhild, FAGERMOEN Solveig
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Integrated Care, 10(1), 2010, Online only
- Publisher:
- International Foundation for Integrated Care
Nurses have a pivotal role in discharge planning for frail patients as increasing number of people need post-hospital nursing care in their homes. Despite considerable effort and focus on how to undertake hospital discharge successfully, the problem of ensuring continuity of care remains. The authors highlight and discuss three challenges that seem to be insufficiently articulated when hospital and community nurses interact during discharge planning: how local practices circumvent formal structures, how nurses' different perspectives influence their assessment of patients' need for post-hospital care, and how nurses have different understanding of what it means to be ‘ready to be discharged’. They propose that nurses need to discuss these challenges and their implications for nursing care so as to be ready to face changing demands for health care in future.
Welfare and the ageing experience: a multidisciplinary analysis
- Editors:
- BYTHEWAY Bill, JOHNSON Julia
- Publisher:
- Avebury
- Publication year:
- 1990
- Pagination:
- 221p.,bibliog.
- Place of publication:
- Aldershot
Collection of papers based on presentations at the 1988 conference of the British Society of Gerontology in 1988. These include: a mixed economy of welfare and the ageing experience; private sector provision of sheltered housing; the reaction of social workers to the challenge of private sector growth in residential care; adjusting to mental infirmity in local authority homes; a survey of delayed hospital discharge; lessons for the future of day care; preparation for retirement in the EC; emerging issues in feminist groupwork; types of inter-generational relations; and the meaning and experience of 'home' in later life.