Healthcare Transitions
Patients pass between health care settings, levels of care, health care providers, and their homes and the communities where they live. These transitions require high degrees of care coordination and management to ensure continuity across settings, providers, and levels. This course examines coordination of care and management of transitions across settings, providers, and levels. Models and frameworks of transition and care coordination will be examined, along with the contemporary research in care coordination and transition management. The professional nurse's role in care coordination and transition management in health will be a focus of the course.
This course is for RN-BSN students.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of the course, the student has the ability to: 1) Understand models and frameworks association with health care transitions and care coordination; 2) Analyze research findings related to care coordination and transition management in health care; 3) Understand facilitators and barriers for effective care coordination and transition management; 4) Describe the role of information, informatics, and technology for enhancing care coordination and transition management; 5) Understand patient, clinician, caregiver, and institutional outcomes associated with successful care coordination and transition management.
This course is for RN-BSN students.
Outcomes: Upon successful completion of the course, the student has the ability to: 1) Understand models and frameworks association with health care transitions and care coordination; 2) Analyze research findings related to care coordination and transition management in health care; 3) Understand facilitators and barriers for effective care coordination and transition management; 4) Describe the role of information, informatics, and technology for enhancing care coordination and transition management; 5) Understand patient, clinician, caregiver, and institutional outcomes associated with successful care coordination and transition management.