Nurse Led clinic for international patients at AUBMC -

Abstract

Nurse Led Clinics have an emergent role in today’s healthcare. Those clinics were proven to have positive impact on patients, nurses and physicians. For patients, nurse-led clinics increase their satisfaction, enhance their compliance with treatment and decrease their clinics’ waiting time; for nurses, it increase their satisfaction, empower them and recognize their capabilities; and for physicians, it gives them time to focus on complex medical cases. The American University of Beirut Medical Center (AUBMC) has been attracting a large number of international patients during the past years (around 10.83percent of the total patients’ population). Those patients require assistance, guidance and proper referral. Moreover, the services required for those patients are increasing and getting more complex thus the available staff and pattern of service may not be sufficient to meet their needs.The aim of this project is to propose a new unit at AUBMC, which would be a nurse led unit to receive the international patients, assess their clinical condition, confirm their diagnosis, order the needed assessment tests, and provide them with the needed health education.