CONTINUITY OF CARE NURSING RESEARCH

CONTINUITY OF CARE NURSING RESEARCH
Continuity of care is a purposeful activity that is given by doctors and physician in their various hospitals. Health care should, therefore, be administrated before, after or even during the treatment process to a discharged patient. Scientifically, continuity of care is a great process by which the medics monitor the health conditions of the patients on a regular basis. Continuity of care is, therefore, an ideal strategy which helps to facilitate positive health development and monitoring the diverse body changing progressions (Van Walraven, Taljaard, Bell, Etchells, Stiell, Zarnke & Forster, 2010).
Any patient has a right to good patient care, and the physician and doctors should provide that which is expected to the patients. However, it has been said that most doctors and physicians do have a tendency of providing less Medicare as soon the patient is discharged from hospital and that that is not good. As a result, the patients develop more medical complication which forces them to seek medical attention in a clinic as soon as possible.
Continuity of care does not work like that. This term implies total complete care for the patient in the both the three stages of disease treatment which are:
Pre- treatment stage: this is the initial feeling of uneasy and there, therefore, the patient feels that they are sick. They, therefore, approach the hospital or any other facility that is concerned with the disease treatment. They have to consult the medical experts to ascertain that whatever they are feeling is an ailment. After confirmation that they are files of growth and development in the society feeling sick the patient is taken to the next step known as treatment stage and here is whereby the patient is given various lab tests, and treatment begins as soon the lab technician determine what disease is affecting the client.
Treatment stage: This is the second step of medication and treatment where the patient is subjected to various treatment procedures sang clinics to attend for getting medication. There are various types of treatment procedure which include administering oral drugs, administering drugs through of injections, electrical machinery treatment among various other inventions that encompasses that active treatment session (Van Walraven, Taljaard, Bell, Etchells, Stiell, Zarnke & Forster, 2010).
Post treatment stage: This is the final stage of treatment which is also known as the recovery state. This is a crucial stage because it indicates the progress of the patient. The patient starts healing, and the healing continues until the end of ailment. However, regular tests still have to be taken to ensure that the patient is recovering well.
This paper is concerned with the reason why most physicians do not want to go on with the continuing care plan. There are various research questions associated with the development of the process of growth and development. Why is it that most patients complain a lot about why most physicians do not want to follow their medical track progress? Most physicians are usually ready to say yes when they are asked about whether they observe the continuing care plan. Is it this true of what they say about the care plan? What is the importance of the continuing care plan to the patients (Van Walraven, Taljaard, Bell, Etchells, Stiell, Zarnke & Forster, 2010)?

Method of study
In the section, there were various methodologies of research that were used to identify determine whether the claims of the continuity of care programs were true. First and foremost, the following techniques were used to investigate the claims about physicians and the continuity of and the continuity of care plan (Van Walraven, Taljaard, Bell, Etchells, Stiell, Zarnke & Forster, 2010).
1. There was a multicenter study of patients who were discharged from the hospital at a specific period of their emergent hospitalization. This means that all patients who left the hospital at a specific time were analyzed both about their pre- treatment and post opinion records and results and also their post recovery medication was also studied
2. The number of visits to the physicians paid to the patients in six months was also analyzed. This includes every detail concerning the attendance of the physicians including the days they did and did not appear to measure the health progress of their patients.
3. The record of physician’s visits was also well analyzed including asking the previous physicians about their regular visits and comparing this with the last current visits
4. There was also an analysis of the four physician continuity scores including pre admission, hospital admitting, post discharge and hospital discharge.
The analysis of the four community scores was one of the best and accurate methods in this analysis due to the long process rate of detailed analysis of all the records in the four continuity score sheets. To begin with the pre admission provides a good set of records indicating the current health status of the patient even when they are sick such that they will be administered with disease they shall be able to have better results of growth and development ideologies secondly the other crucial type of analysis in the four continuity score sheets is the last step which is also known as post discharge examination. Most physicians fail to investigate this process due to the assumption that the patient is already feeling well and there are no possible complications. This is a false claim hence physicians must attend to the patient even after they have started to recover to ascertain whether they are recovering.
Results of the study
After a careful study of the rate of continuity score sheets, it was discovered that about five thousand patients who were followed their analysis showed that the four continuity score sheets recorded a very low attendance of the physicians. This shows not many physicians like to follow up their patient especially after they have been discharged from the hospital. Thus this confirms that the claim that most physicians do not follow up their patient’s health status even after they have been discharged from the hospital for later recovery. There were very few physicians who attended to the patient treatment program on a regular basis, but the n majority did not.
Conclusion
In conclusion, there is much evidence put forth to confirm that most doctors and physicians do not get concerned about the continuity care program instituted in the various health centers. As many such patients are having a problem with their health record regular check up and analysis. This brings in the need for the physicians to consider attending to the patients’ health condition (Van Walraven, Taljaard, Bell, Etchells, Stiell, Zarnke & Forster, 2010).

References
van Walraven, C., Taljaard, M., Bell, C. M., Etchells, E., Stiell, I. G., Zarnke, K., & Forster, A. J. (2010). A prospective cohort study found that provider and information continuity was low after patient discharge from the hospital. Journal of clinical epidemiology, 63(9), 1000- 1010.