Care protocol ENLACE-PREALT
Section: Method
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Puig Girbau N et ál. Protocolo de actuación ENLACE-PREALT. Metas de Enferm jul/ago 2011; 14(6): 61-65
Authors
1Nuria Puig Girbau, 2Mª Magdalena Lladó Blanch
Position
1Enfermera. Máster en Enfermería de Salud Pública y Comunitaria. Máster-Postgrado en Enfermería Geronto-Geriátrica e
Contact address
Nuria Puig Girbau. SAP Badalona-Sant Adrià. Placa de La Medicina, s/n. 08911 Badalona (Barcelona).
Contact email: npuig.bnm.ics@gencat.cat
Abstract
The preparation program on discharge (PREALT-Preparation on Discharge) from the CatSalut (Catalan Health Service) is aimed at patients that are discharged from the hospital and who need domiciliary primary care for 24-48 hours after leaving the hospital. The program is a tool that improves coordination among the different healthcare levels. A need to extend the program was detected and the concept of LIAISON nursing was included in the program: ensuring follow up visits at home or at the primary care centre in less than five natural days to provide continuity of care to all those patients who following their hospital discharge are in need of care. The program was simultaneously designed using the bi-directionality allowed by the flow of information between Primary Care (PC) and Specialised Care in both directions. Between 2007-2008, PC liaison nurses assessed 1.282 patients. 298 required PREALT and 570 LIAISON. 202 subjects were interviewed regarding the above mentioned coordination project with a mean of 9,3 (on a scale from de 0 to 10). The holistic assessment and the follow up carried out by the PC liaison nurse with a primarist perspective on the hospitalised patient provides an added value both to the primary care team and to the patient promoting his or her self-autonomy.
Keywords:
Clinical protocol; continuity of care; discharge; liaison nurse; PREALT; Primary Health Care; protocol
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