Patient Discharge Plan

▪ Create a profile for a “patient” in the hospital.
▪ This patient (and perhaps the patient’s family) will need teaching prior to being
discharged home.
▪ Develop a comprehensive teaching/learning plan with a focus on health promotion.
▪ The teaching/learning plan must be patient focused; therefore, it must be tailored to
the patient’s learning style and needs (see guidelines below).
▪ Describe interprofessional collaboration with 2 other health professionals that were
involved in the patient’s care and need to sign off on the patient being discharged
(see guidelines below).
▪ You will present your teaching/learning plan to the class.
You should consult with your instructor prior to beginning the actual work on this assignment.
You must confirm with your instructor that your profile will make a good teaching/learning
opportunity at an appropriately complex level of care.
Here are the guidelines : Your audience is your peers for this.
▪ The profile should include the patient’s name, gender, age, admitting diagnosis,
related medical history
▪ The profile should include social history as follows o support network information
(parents, partner, community) o cultural / ethnic diversity o sensory deficits o
occupational history o level of education
▪ The admitting diagnosis, and concurrent conditions or concerns, must require
teaching that is complex and multi-faceted.
▪ Describe interprofessional collaboration with 2 other health professionals involved in
the patient’s care e.g. Physiotherapist, Occupational Therapist, Dietician. What did
they do for the patient? How did you consult/communicate with them to determine
the patient is safe/ready for discharge?
▪ Describe the discharge situation e.g. going home, going into rehabilitation, going into
long term care etc.
Provide the teaching: Your audience is the patient for this. You will simulate exactly
what you would say to the patient, you may use a peer as a mock patient.
▪ The teaching must be focused on health promotion concepts
▪ The teaching must be accurate
▪ The teaching/learning must be aligned with all of the information in the patient’s
profile – list emotional and psychological supports available in the community