Master the steps to performance improvement: plan, do, study, and act to enhance your facility\u27s patient care initiatives.

When implementing process improvements, create awareness and include staff members most directly involved with the system

Reducing Readmissions Using Teach-Back: Enhancing Patient and Family Education.

This article describes a quality improvement initiative, implemented by a patient education workgroup within a tertiary Magnet® facility. The project focused on the association between inadequate care transitions in patients with heart failure and subsequent costly readmissions. The teach-back initiative was piloted with patients hospitalized with heart failure, because of this population\u27s high risk of readmission. Learning outcomes included documented improvements in patients\u27 understanding of their disease and reduced readmission rates