A REVIEW OF THE QUALITY IMPROVEMENT IN DISCHARGE PLANNING THROUGH COACHING IN NURSING
ABSTRACT: Discharge planning
quality will improve the quality of nursing care, patient’s self-reliance,
quality of life, self-efficacy, and reduce the recurrence rate andLOS (Length
of Stay) as well as reduce the cost. Coaching is a method to increase
professionalism in the delivery of nursing and caring. Coaching in nursing will
improve the nurses’ skills, knowledge, and motivation in providing nursing
discharge planning.
Purpose: The study aimed to review coaching in nursing to improve the
quality of discharge planning.
Methods: A literature review was done by collecting the results of
scientific publications within 2011-2016 from databases such as EBSCO,
ProQuest, PubMed,Google scholar, and the American Journal of Nursing (AJN).
Searching was done using the keywords of “coaching”, “nurse”, “supervision” and
“discharge planning”.
Results: Six scientific publications were selected in accordance with the
criteria of this research. Those publications were of quantitative correlation,
experimental and qualitative studies. Results of the review showed that the
discharge planning is part of nursing care. Coaching is a competence which must
be possessed by nursing managers.Unfortunately, the majority of managers were
still lacking in their ability to conduct coaching to nurses.
Conclusion: Coaching is important for nurses to improve the quality of
discharge planning. However, many nurses still have limitation on their
capability to do coaching. It is recommended that nurses are given coaching
training to develop their ability in coaching.
Author: Candra Dewi Rahayu,
Tri Hartiti, Muhamad Rofi’i
Journal Code: jpkeperawatangg160003