Title

Comprehensive Trauma Patient Care By Nonphysician Providers.

Abstract

Nonphysician providers are being increasingly used to care for trauma patients. As these complex patients recover, they require meticulous medical management and time-consuming psychosocial care. A retrospective evaluation of a unique patient care service staffed by nonphysician providers is presented. The Intermediate Care Service is designed to facilitate the management and long-term placement of trauma patients who no longer require intensive care while recovering from their injuries. The new diagnoses, physician order changes, and disposition of 93 patients cared for during a 6-month period are described. Most patients were admitted with neurologic injury. The most common new diagnosis was constipation; the most frequent new orders related to medications, including bowel management, and rehabilitation consultations. All patients were discharged from the hospital. The Intermediate Care Service represents a unique and valuable model for the collaborative management of complex trauma patients.

Publication Date

1-1-2001

Publication Title

AACN clinical issues

Volume

12

Issue

3

Number of Pages

438-446

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1097/00044067-200108000-00011

Socpus ID

0035431974 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/0035431974

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