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A collaborative chain out of phase
INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study is to explore the obstacles to collaborations between nurses in hospital and municipal care in the discharge of hospital patients who need continuing care. METHODS: First, we conducted in-depth interviews of nurses in hospitals and nurses in municipal care. Second...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3653281/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23687480 |
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author | Paulsen, Bård Romøren, Tor Inge Grimsmo, Anders |
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description | INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study is to explore the obstacles to collaborations between nurses in hospital and municipal care in the discharge of hospital patients who need continuing care. METHODS: First, we conducted in-depth interviews of nurses in hospitals and nurses in municipal care. Second, we developed questionnaires and distributed them to a representative sample of Norwegian municipalities to study the representativeness of the most important findings from the interviews. RESULTS: Municipal care nurses reported that the information they receive from hospital departments usually is insufficient for a complete understanding of a patient’s needs. Formal discharge reports from hospital serve as a post factum formalization and authorization of information collected by municipal nurses in an ad hoc fashion and via oral communication. Typically, formal information routines are out of phase with the information needed by municipal care professionals. CONCLUSIONS: Hospital information provided at discharge is neither sufficient nor timely with respect to the information needs of nurses in municipal care. Organizational efforts and the use of information technology might ease some obstacles, but several problems will remain because of differences in professional orientation and the contexts of care delivery. |
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spelling | pubmed-36532812013-05-17 A collaborative chain out of phase Paulsen, Bård Romøren, Tor Inge Grimsmo, Anders Int J Integr Care Research and Theory INTRODUCTION: The aim of this study is to explore the obstacles to collaborations between nurses in hospital and municipal care in the discharge of hospital patients who need continuing care. METHODS: First, we conducted in-depth interviews of nurses in hospitals and nurses in municipal care. Second, we developed questionnaires and distributed them to a representative sample of Norwegian municipalities to study the representativeness of the most important findings from the interviews. RESULTS: Municipal care nurses reported that the information they receive from hospital departments usually is insufficient for a complete understanding of a patient’s needs. Formal discharge reports from hospital serve as a post factum formalization and authorization of information collected by municipal nurses in an ad hoc fashion and via oral communication. Typically, formal information routines are out of phase with the information needed by municipal care professionals. CONCLUSIONS: Hospital information provided at discharge is neither sufficient nor timely with respect to the information needs of nurses in municipal care. Organizational efforts and the use of information technology might ease some obstacles, but several problems will remain because of differences in professional orientation and the contexts of care delivery. Igitur publishing 2013-03-14 /pmc/articles/PMC3653281/ /pubmed/23687480 Text en Copyright 2013, Authors retain the copyright of their article http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This work is licensed under a (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License |
spellingShingle | Research and Theory Paulsen, Bård Romøren, Tor Inge Grimsmo, Anders A collaborative chain out of phase |
title | A collaborative chain out of phase |
title_full | A collaborative chain out of phase |
title_fullStr | A collaborative chain out of phase |
title_full_unstemmed | A collaborative chain out of phase |
title_short | A collaborative chain out of phase |
title_sort | collaborative chain out of phase |
topic | Research and Theory |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3653281/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23687480 |
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