title: A Nurse Transitional Home Visit Following Pediatric Hospitalizations.
abstract: By incorporating focused feedback from families and other stakeholders a multidisciplinary team redesigned a single nurse home visit to improve transitions to home for pediatric patients following short-stay, acute care hospitalizations. Refinements to the nurse-led transitional home visit included standardization of teaching focused on condition- and medication-specific concerns, the use of red flags or warning signs to prompt caregiver action, and the provision of reassurance.
authors.affiliation: Author Affiliations: Professor (Dr Pickler), Ohio State University, Columbus (formerly Cincinnati Children's Hospital); Assistant Vice President (Ms Wade-Murphy) and Senior Vice President (Dr Hoying), Patient Services; Clinical Director (Ms Gold), Home Health Agency; Assistant Professor (Dr Tubbs-Cooley), Associate Professor (Dr White), Assistant Professor (Dr Statile), Senior Clinical Research Coordinator (Ms Sauers-Ford), Professor and Division Director (Dr Shah), and Associate Professor (Dr Simmons), Hospital Medicine, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Ohio.
authors.forename: Rita
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pickler
authors.forename: Susan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Wade-Murphy
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Gold
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Tubbs-Cooley
authors.forename: Christine M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: White
authors.forename: Angela
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Statile
authors.forename: Cheryl
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hoying
authors.forename: Hadley
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Sauers-Ford
authors.forename: Samir S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Shah
authors.forename: Jeffery
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Simmons
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D003266:Continuity of Patient Care / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards; D006792:House Calls; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010351:Patient Discharge; D010371:Pediatric Nursing / Q000379:methods / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000592:standards