Peds SM-THINk: Nursing Interventions to Improve Discharge Outcomes

Completed

Conditions studied: Pediatric ALL

In brief

This study focuses on the delivery of discharge education by clinical nurses to improve parent and family self-management in the home environment. This study tests an discharge method (SM-THINk protocol) designed to improve the quality of care for hospitalized pediatric patients at the time of discharge, enhance the child's and family's experience, and decrease length of stay and health care utilization (ED visit or re-admission). The SM-THINk protocol is an enhancement to the standard clinical practice and will be implemented for all subjects on two Children's Hospital of Wisconsin (CHW) nursing units. This enhancement will require additional training of the nurses prior to implementation of the research project. This research determines the effectiveness of the training enhanced discharge method. The training is independent from the research project and will evaluate effectiveness of this training. For the enhanced discharge method, clinical nurses on the study units will be trained to deliver the Self-Management Transition to Home (SM-THINk protocol), which is based on the family self-management discharge preparation previously developed and tested by the study team.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03539978

Run by

Medical College of Wisconsin

People needed

486

Starts

2018-08-30

Expected to finish

2019-04-20

Last updated by the study team

2019-12-12

Who can join

Age: any, up to 100. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• the parent's/caregiver's child is inpatient on the selected study units
• the parent/caregiver is English speaking (to date the tools being used have been validated for English participants only)
• the parent/caregiver is 18 years of age or older
• the patient is 17 years of age or younger

You may not qualify if…

• presence of significant communication or cognitive impairment on the part of the parent/caregiver that would preclude completion of questionnaires based on self-report.
• the patient is a ward of the state or in foster care

Where it is running

• Children's Hospital of Wisconsin — Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

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