title: Collaboration to improve education after liver transplant: the experience at Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
abstract: Education after a liver transplant can be an overwhelming experience for transplant recipients. Clinical nurse specialist graduate students with the assistance of the liver transplant clinical nurse specialist at the Portland Veterans Affairs Medical Center developed a multidisciplinary tool for documenting posttransplant education. By creating 1 central document in which all disciplines provide evidence of posttransplant education, all members of the healthcare team are afforded an efficient system for tracking progress in patients' education and for eliminating duplicative teaching.
authors.affiliation: Oregon Health & Science University Portland, USA.
authors.forename: Cynthia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Perez
authors.forename: Ann
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Busch
authors.forename: Katie
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Oyama
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Jackson
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D004282:Documentation; D006284:Health Plan Implementation; D006787:Hospitals, Veterans / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D009720:Nurse Clinicians; D009922:Oregon; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States; D014493:United States Department of Veterans Affairs; D014584:User-Computer Interface