Care Progression Quiz

We frequently encounter delays to progressing and discharging our patients that increase their length of stay beyond what is expected.

My hospital has a working length of stay target for each patient, and the care team manages to the patient’s target every day and every shift in real-time.

My hospital spends a lot of time addressing avoidable days, delays, and patients with a long length of stay.

Charge nurse and case manager shift handoff is not consistent and takes an hour or more on most of our nursing units.

There is ONE individual role who is solely responsible and accountable for patient progression on each of my hospital’s nursing units.

It is challenging and time consuming to understand whether patients are on track to meet their expected length of stay or not.

It is difficult to see which patient care units are meeting length of stay goals until after the fact.

We have specifically identified actions or tasks to help us know how to progress patients each day to assure they stay on track and don’t experience delays.