Using Nursing Interventions Classifications to Document Faith Community Nursing Transitional Care.

ABSTRACT: One out of five Medicare beneficiaries is readmitted within 30 days after hospital discharge, and as many as three in four readmissions are preventable. This study describes transitional care interventions (TCIs) delivered by one faith community nurse (FCN) to at-risk seniors living in a certain ZIP code. Two years of nursing documentation (2,280 interventions) were translated into Nursing Interventions Classification standardized nursing language. Results indicate the FCN provided priority TCIs including spiritual care. In fully describing TCIs using a nursing language, results support that the FCN transitional care model is a method worth exploring to provide wholistic transitional care.

A Transitional Care Model Using Faith Community Nurses.

The Medicare mandatory readmission reduction program has hospitals scrambling to reduce 30-day readmissions. A Faith Community Nurse (FCN) Transitional Care Model was developed from systematic literature review of predictive factors of readmission and pre- and postdischarge interventions that decrease readmission. The model presents specific FCN care that occurs pre- and posthospital discharge to support the patient in transitioning from one level of care to another, move toward wholistic health, and avoid unnecessary readmission.