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Article: Survival skills! No discharge without them.
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- Patient-Focused Care & Satisfaction
- Article date:
- July 1, 1999
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Survival skills! No discharge without them
Hospitals decide what every diabetic needs to know
About 10 years ago, nurses at York (PA) Health System would contact diabetes educators when a patient needed teaching. Today educators have moved to the outpatient area and set up formal classes. This trend is common in health care today, says Donette Lasher, MAT, patient education coordinator for the health care system.
When the educators left, the inpatient floor nurses were supposed to teach patients survival skills if they were admitted to the hospital for diabetes and refer them to the outpatient program. A formal policy was written and pamphlets ...