Home visits after hospitalization: Enhancing baccalaureate nursing students' gerontologic clinical experience

This article describes posthospitalization visits by 83 nursing students to 57 older patients and their caregivers discharged from two large academic medical centers and one community hospital. Patient and caregiver interview s in the home focused on the areas of geriatric assessments of cognitive an d functional status, patient and caregiver satisfaction with recent hospita lization, ongoing health management, patient teaching, and discharge planni ng.