Project leader:

Liz Lees

Location:

Birmingham Heartlands Hospital

Summary of initiative:

A national tool-kit to facilitate nurse-led discharge is currently at the penultimate stage of development (Lees, 2004). This project envisages getting evidence from this into everyday healthcare practice by activating the core competencies within the tool-kit, to the benefit of staff and patients. This will involve working in a clinical capacity with sixteen qualified nurses (D to G grade) and the multi-disciplinary team, in an elderly care ward at the Birmingham and Heartlands Hospital. The aim is to support staff by facilitating training/reflection/competency development to improve their practice of discharging patients from the hospital, through nurse-led discharge activities.

Resources to download:

Research Questionnaire Nurse Led Discharge Confidence - Pre

Research Questionnaire Nurse Led Discharge Confidence - Post

Research Questionnaire Nurse Led Discharge Knowledge and Ability - Pre

Research Questionnaire Nurse Led Discharge Knowledge and Ability - Post

References:

Lees, L. (Ed) (2007) Nurse Facilitated Hospital Discharge (ISBN: 1-905539-12-6) www.mkupdate.co.uk

Lees, L., Delpino, R. (2007) Facilitating timely discharge from hospital: combining patient name boards and discharge planning information (submitted to Nursing Times for peer review, in press May 2007).

Lees, L. (2007) Emergency Care Briefing Paper: Discharge from Hospital, updated National Electronic Library for Health; http://libraries.nelh.nhs.uk/emergency

Lees, L. (2006) Not just another sheet of paper: discharge checklists. The Communicator. RCN discharge planning and continuing care forum. Summer 2006, pp. 4 – 5. www.rcn.org.uk/liaisondischarge

Lees, L. et al (2006) Using post-take ward rounds to facilitate simple discharge. Nursing Times. Vol. 102. No. 18. pp 28 – 30.

Lees, L., Emmerson, K. (2006) Identifying discharge practice training needs. Nursing Standard. Vol. 20. No. 29. pp 47 – 51.

Lees, L., Holmes, K. (2005) Estimating a date of discharge at ward level: a pilot study. Nursing Standard. Vol. 19. No. 17. pp 40 – 43.

Lees, L., Temple, R. (2005) Community Care: Polishing up the Act to estimate a date of discharge. Journal of Health Services Management. Vol. 9. No. 1. pp 22 – 24.

O'Brien, D., Lees, L. (2005) How a clinical coordinator improved emergency care. Nursing Times Vol. 101. No. 15. pp 34 – 36.

Lees, L. (2004) Improving the quality of patient discharge from emergency settings. British Journal of Nursing. Vol. 13. No. 7. pp 412-421.

Lees, L. (2004) Making nurse led discharge work to improve patient care. Nursing Times. Vol. 100. No. 37. pp 30 – 32.

Department of Health (2004) Achieving timely ‘simple’ discharge from hospital: a toolkit for the multi-disciplinary team. Co-written by Liz Lees. http://www.dh.gov.uk/Policyandguidance/organisationalpolicy/

For further information about this project please contact: liz.lees@heartofengland.nhs.uk

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