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标题：Cultural diversity between hospital and community nurses: implications for continuity of care
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作者：Ragnhild Hellesø ; May Solveig Fagermoen
期刊名称：International Journal of Integrated Care
电子版ISSN：1568-4156
出版年度：2010
卷号：10
期号：1
DOI：10.5334/ijic.508
出版社：Utrecht University, Maastricht University, Groningen University
摘要：Introduction: Health care systems and nurses need to take into account the increasing number of people who need post-hospital nursing care in their homes. Nurses have taken a pivotal role in discharge planning for frail patients. Despite considerable effort and focus on how to undertake hospital discharge successfully, the problem of ensuring continuity of care remains.

Challenges: In this paper, we highlight and discuss three challenges that seem to be insufficiently articulated when hospital and community nurses interact during discharge planning. These three challenges are: how local practices circumvent formal structures, how nurses' different perspectives influence their assessment of patients' need for post-hospital care, and how nurses have different understanding of what it means to be ‘ready to be discharged’.

Discussion: We propose that nurses need to discuss these challenges and their implications for nursing care so as to be ready to face changing demands for health care in future.