Clinical Practice
Crank up the flow
Criteria-led discharge is still a developing system but it’s already helping nurses move patients out of surgical wards more quickly.
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Criteria-led discharge is still a developing system but it’s already helping nurses move patients out of surgical wards more quickly.
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We have criteria led discharge for asthma patients in the 24 hour emergency medical unit at my workplace and it works extremely well, The patients have to be seen by a nurse practitioner or medical officer in the past 12 hours and have plans and d/c letter and scripts organised before coming to the unit. The nurses on the unit ‘stretch’ the salbutamol and discharge the patients when the requirement for the bronchodilator reaches 3 hourly. This helps with the flow of patients within ED.