Global Key Team Members of the DNP Paper
Global Key Team Members of the DNP Paper
As the DNP Project leader, forming a cohesive and collegial team whose members will work together is vital to the success of the project.
1) Discuss the key members of your DNP Project team (no names, just role or position in the organization) and their specific contributions to the project implementation.
– Emergency department manager, contributing support, availability, budget, utilization of facility materials, providing facility data, arranged organization approval for project implementation.
– Site preceptor, project ideas, ways to implement project in emergency department such as training purposes, organizing list of contacts for Zoom meeting training, printed material, making sure that everyone is on the same page.
This is a discussion board I need minimum 350 words with 3 peer reviewed references from 2017-2020.
Running head: IMPROVING DISCHARGE PROCEDURES Improving Discharge Procedures to Reduce Unnecessary Emergency Department Return Visits IMPROVING DISCHARGE PROCEDURES 1 Abstract Unnecessary return visits to the emergency department (ED) has prevailed as a critical problem for patients, healthcare workers, and healthcare providers. While the hospitals might spend a significant amount of money and resources in caring for patients who return to the ED, patients often accrue increasing costs of healthcare. To address this issue, this project explores the implementation of a discharge tool that will help medical staff to better communicate with the patients resulting in patients’ better understanding of the discharge instructions and procedures. This project is expected to educate doctors and nurses on how to provide patients with high quality discharge instructions that will enable the elimination of unnecessary return visits, improve quality of care, and reduce costs. The target population will be Florida’s Celebration community, and since it is estimated that 28% of the acute care visits and half of the hospital admissions emerge from the ED, using this populous community will yield more reliable results. Even though the project has not been implemented in the target facility in Florida due to the COVID-19 pandemic that has resulted in several layoffs and a significant drop in ED visits, it is already in use in the New York City (NYC) healthcare facilities. The project has increased patient satisfaction levels to 80%, producing positive results in patient outcomes, and great compliance with follow up procedures such as outpatient care after being discharged from the ER, among others. Results of this project which uses EPIC electronic medical record system has been proven to be working in New York, and promises to yield similar results when it is eventually implemented in Florida after the state’s health system recovers from the adversities of the pandemic. Keywords: Unnecessary return visits, EPIC electronic medical record system, patient satisfaction IMPROVING DISCHARGE PROCED