Focused Heart Failure SBAR Implementation in Home Health Care to Increase Interventions in the Home and Decrease Re-Hospitalizations Among HF Patients

This paper focuses on a quality improvement (QI) project implemented in a home health setting among a population of patients with heart failure (HF). It was discovered there was a lack of nurse-led recommendations and ineffective use of the situation, background, assessment, recommendations tool (SBAR) among home health nurse when communicating with providers about heart failure patients. Therefore, the QI project focused on creating and implementing a focused HF SBAR tool and a self-care patient checklist to be utilized by all home health nurses for all visits with heart failure patients.

Source: Journal of the American Medical Directors Association - February 27, 2019 Category: Health Management Authors: Christina Leonard, C. Leonard, M. Zomorodi Tags: Quality Improvement Source Type: research