To Go Home I know about other help Tips for Going Home I need at home. Checklist Patients and families at [insert hospital name] Ask: wrote these tips to help you get ready to go When I get home, what kind of help or home: [Use patient and family advisors to tailor Before you leave the hospital, we want to care will I need? Should someone be with this list to your hospital.] make sure you feel ready to go home. me all the time? Write down what your doctors and During your hospital stay, your doctors and Will I need home nursing care? For how nurses say. nurses will make sure to answer your long? Who pays for it? Ask questions until you understand and get the questions and talk to you about your Will I need physical or occupational answers you need. concerns. We want you to have all the therapy for help with exercises or information you need. Make lists of what needs to be done, who can relearning how to do things? For how do it, and who can help. Use this checklist to see what information long? Who pays for it? you still need from us as you or your family Talk with someone who has been in your Will I need help eating, bathing, or going member prepare to go home. If you cannot situation to help you prepare and know what to to the bathroom? For how long? check a box, use the questions listed to ask expect. Will I need any equipment, such as your doctor or nurse about the information Talk to other people in the hospital, such as crutches or oxygen? Where do I get it? you need. social workers, chaplains, and other patients, Who pays for it? How do I use it? about your care or other help you may need. My doctors or nurses Going Home Too Soon? answered all of my questions. If you feel that you are going home before you are ready, call [insert name] at [phone number]. Strategy 4: IDEAL Discharge Planning You may have other questions or concerns (Tool 2a) that are not in this checklist. Please ask us your questions. Make sure you have your answers before you leave. Be Prepared
I know about other help I need at home. Ask: When I get home, what kind of help or care will I need? Should someone be with me all the time? Will I need home nursing care? For how long? Who pays for it? Will I need physical or occupational therapy for help with exercises or relearning how to do things? For how long? Who pays for it? Will I need help eating, bathing, or going to the bathroom? For how long? Will I need any equipment, such as crutches or oxygen? Where do I get it? Who pays for it? How do I use it? My doctors or nurses answered all of my questions. You may have other questions or concerns that are not in this checklist. Please ask us your questions. Make sure you have your answers before you leave. Tips for Going Home Patients and families at [insert hospital name] wrote these tips to help you get ready to go home: [Use patient and family advisors to tailor this list to your hospital.] Write down what your doctors and nurses say. Ask questions until you understand and get the answers you need. Make lists of what needs to be done, who can do it, and who can help. Talk with someone who has been in your situation to help you prepare and know what to expect. Talk to other people in the hospital, such as social workers, chaplains, and other patients, about your care or other help you may need. Going Home Too Soon? If you feel that you are going home before you are ready, call [insert name] at [phone number]. Be Prepared To Go Home Checklist Before you leave the hospital, we want to make sure you feel ready to go home. During your hospital stay, your doctors and nurses will make sure to answer your questions and talk to you about your concerns. We want you to have all the information you need. Use this checklist to see what information you still need from us as you or your family member prepare to go home. If you cannot check a box, use the questions listed to ask your doctor or nurse about the information you need. Strategy 4: IDEAL Discharge Planning (Tool 2a)