Campus Location

Dallas Campus (Online)

Date of Award

11-2021

Document Type

DNP Project

Department

Nursing

Degree Name

Doctor of Nursing Practice

Committee Chair or Primary Advisor

Tonya Sawyer-McGee

Second Committee Member or Secondary Advisor

Tricia Bernecker

Third Committee Member or Committee Reader

Danielle Sarik

Abstract

Abstract

Research reveals long-term care facilities face challenges with unnecessary transfers to acute care facilities. Use of the INTERACT quality improvement program has been effective in decreasing rehospitalizations in long-term care facilities. The researcher used a 15-question survey regarding the components of the INTERACT tool to assess the knowledge base of licensed nurses in long-term care facilities and develop a one-hour education session to bridge the knowledge gap. After the education session was held, a posttest was administered to test the licensed nurses’ knowledge of the INTERACT program. Using a paired-samples t test, the researcher found an overall increase in knowledge of the components of the INTERACT tool.

Keywords: rehospitalizations, long-term care, INTERACT, licensed nurses, post-acute care, unnecessary hospitalization

Creative Commons License

Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.

Share

COinS
 
 

To view the content in your browser, please download Adobe Reader or, alternately,
you may Download the file to your hard drive.

NOTE: The latest versions of Adobe Reader do not support viewing PDF files within Firefox on Mac OS and if you are using a modern (Intel) Mac, there is no official plugin for viewing PDF files within the browser window.