As with night float, record pertinents in chart or on card depending on importance. The four hospitals have slightly different discharge paperwork. Fill out the PDP or patient discharge planning form. This requires a diagnosis, short hospital course summary, tests performed, and discharge medications to be dispensed. At Moffitt and SFGH, medicines written on the PDP are not dispensed.
Discharge medicines require a separate form.
At Moffitt, you can call the outpatient pharmacy and speed up the discharge meds. Fill out prescriptions. Unless filled at the hospital pharmacy, this requires a license. Ensure follow-up appointments. Usually the ward clerk will help you.