Patient quality of care and safety also depends upon transitional care. The purpose of transitional care is to provide advanced facilities and services when patients are transferred from one treatment phase to another. Especially in chronic illness, patients must be monitored continuously in every phase of treatment to avoid mortality, which a transactional care plan can do. This assessment discusses the case of Mrs. Snyder 56-year-old patient who has diabetes and comes up in Villa Hospital with the issue of an infected toe. This assessment is designed to discuss the transitional care plan for Mrs. Snyder and what communication berries can affect the overall transitional plan (Korytkowski et al., 2022). 

Key Elements & Information Needed for High-Quality Treatment 

Patient quality of care and safety can be improved only when strict guidelines are in place to assure effectiveness. The Patient’s diagnosis must be made with precision and effectiveness to avoid complications (Watts et al., 2020). Additionally, it is also important that the organization track patient medical records continuously and store them for future needs. In order to understand Mrs. Snyder’s issues, it is important to diagnose her properly.

NURS FPX 6610 Assessment 3 Transitional Care Plan 

Key Elements 

Various key elements and information is needed from Mrs. Snyder to improve her quality of treatment. 

• Medical Records 

One of them is to collect the medical records of Mrs. Snyder, with which her problem can be addressed easily. With the help of Mrs. Snyder’s medical records, staff can diagnose other health problems affecting patient health, like depression, high BP, and heart issues (Chen et al., 2018).

• Medication Reconciliation

In addition to medical records, healthcare staff also needs to know about the medicine list that Mrs. Snyder is taking. The medicine list ensures whether Mrs. Snyder’s medicine benefits her health or if she needs other substitutes. So proper medication reconciliation is necessary to improve Mrs. Snyder’s quality of treatment (Fernandes et al., 2020).   

• Emergency and Advance Directive Information

A transactional care plan demands patient-centered care as staff must focus on Mrs. Snyder’s religious mindset, which will help her in various treatment steps. It is also important for healthcare sectors to get advance directive information about the patient from primary healthcare providers to learn about the treatment the patient is getting in the previous health sector to avoid serious issues (Dowling et al., 2020). 

• Patient Feedback 

Along with this, another key element includes patient feedback regarding medical personnel behavior and treatment process. This will help to know about Mrs. Snyder’s medical needs and wants, so healthcare professionals must provide Mrs. Snyder with all the important information regarding her condition and treatment process. This will encourage the patient to focus on her health care and avoid activities affecting her health (Moghaddam.A.et al., 2019). 

• Plan of Care and Education 

Another key element is that healthcare professionals are also well-trained to provide the best care treatment to the patients with satisfied patient satisfaction. Every patient have different needs and wants, so it is important to develop a transitional care plan according to patient requirement and conditions. Healthcare professionals are responsible for providing patients with various community-based healthcare services and sharing information rapidly with other healthcare professionals (Dyer, 2021).

• Community and Health Care Resources

Avoiding negative medical outcomes like hospital readmissions and mortality rates requires sufficient community services like mobility options, social support, health education, and outpatient treatment (Yue et al., 2019).