Telephone Intervention and Enhanced Disease Management

This article introduces studies investigating the influence of advanced medical nurse (APN) phone intervention and enhanced disease management on heart failure (HF) patients by Brandon, Schuessler, Ellison, and Lazenby (2009). Specifically, the study investigated the impact of this intervention on patient outcomes including rehospitalization rates, quality of life, and self-care behavior. This work is from Journal of Applied Nursing Research.

In the VA Nursing Home Care Unit, improvement in nursing satisfaction involves interventions designed to improve the quality of clinical information exchanges encountered by RN and physicians after working hours. In addition, because of the change in medical practice by telephone, the doctor calling is more likely to deliver the patient to the emergency room or the site to see the patient.

Quality Improvement Program designed to strengthen telephone contact outside the office between nurses and doctors in nursing care facilities

This article introduces studies investigating the influence of advanced medical nurse (APN) phone intervention and enhanced disease management on heart failure (HF) patients by Brandon, Schuessler, Ellison, and Lazenby (2009). Specifically, the study investigated the impact of this intervention on patient outcomes including rehospitalization rates, quality of life, and self-care behavior. - Telephones are defined as "use or manipulation of devices that transmit sound as electrical signals between widely separated places (as a phone)" (Merriam-Webster, 2008). Telephones, including voice, fax, or other data transmitted over the telephone system, are an important part of business activities. With advances in technology and the evolution of the organization, it may be necessary to upgrade or replace the organization's telephone system.

The process of disease management in identifying and propagating selected populations such as people with asthma or diabetes is the most effective and effective resource for the treatment or prevention of disease, intervention or drug combinations. Disease management may include team-based care where health care workers and / or other medical professionals are involved in providing and managing care. It also involves the proper use of drugs. Do not resuscitate prior instructions based on the premise that there is a possibility that people may want to die rather than survive if there is a possibility that the quality of life after cardiopulmonary resuscitation will be worse than before . In this case, the patient has the right not to recover and is allowed to die.