The nurse prepares to transfer an older adult to a long-term care facility and calls the fa-cility to give report. Which nursing actions are the responsibilities of the transferring nurse and the receiving nurse?
a. Incorporating patient goals into the plan
b. Ensuring the patient is stable for transfer
c. Supplying patient documents for planning
d. Providing continuity of care during transfer
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A Incorrect. The receiving nurse incorporates patient goals into the plan.
B Incorrect. The sending nurse ensures that the patient is stable for the transfer to prevent decompensation during the trip or shortly after arrival at the new facili-ty.
C Incorrect. The sending nurse is responsible for providing clear, comprehensive, and complete patient documentation.
D Correct. A shared responsibility of the sending and the receiving nurses or care team is to regard the transition as a transfer versus a discharge and to provide continuous and consistent nursing care throughout the transfer phase. To ac-complish this, the two nurses or groups must have clear, comprehensive com-munication.
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