Übergangspflege - Transitional Care

The practical handbook on transitional care offers theoretical nursing justifications and practical nursing implementations of transitional care. The experienced nursing specialist and scientist Claudia Bernhard-Kessler explains how revolving door discharges and breaks in care can be anticipated and avoided during transfers from health care facilities. It discusses how transitional care can contribute to stabilizing and coping with life transitions and clarifies the concept of transitional care, its meaning, and its implementation.

The book describes a theory of transitions, differentiates between their types and elements, names necessary tools such as tact and counseling skills, and outlines organizational and legal framework conditions. It explains underlying concepts of coping, biography, home disorganization, learned helplessness, motivation, reactance, self-determination, self-management, self-efficacy, systems, and self-worth with examples and interventions.

Additionally, it provides practical examples for planning and implementing transitional care from outpatient settings and develops and improves discharge management through planned transitional care and consciously designed, managed, and stabilized transitional situations.