Teaching patients about kidney transplantation: documentation.
Increasing demands are being placed on transplant nurse coordinators for more precise documentation of their teaching of kidney transplant patients, but the amount of time nurses have for this added documentation remains unchanged or has diminished. After a thorough review of the literature, our transplant team found no patient teaching documentation format that assisted us in overcoming the problem of increased demands. Consequently, following the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organization standards, we developed a Renal Transplant Patient Teaching Record that has assisted our team in documenting the pre- and post-transplant patient teaching that we complete.
Messina
C J
CJ
University of Missouri-Columbia Hospitals and Clinics, Columbia, Mo., USA.
Russell
C L
CL
Ewigman
M A
MA
Ward
C
C
Mefrakis
L
L
D004282:Documentation / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology; D009737:Nursing Records; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*; D013527:Perioperative Nursing / Q000379:methods*