AARP

Hospital Stay Patient Checklist

Hospital Stay

• Get to know your nurses and aides.

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• Make names a must in all hospital interactions.

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• Consider your hospital room your temporary home.

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• Make cleanliness in your room a priority.

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• Consider a visit from your pastor, priest, minister, imam, rabbi, shaman, guru, monk or any other type of spiritual counselor.

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• Create a master medication list.

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• Know your daily medication schedule.

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• Create a daily journal.

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• Wash your hands frequently.

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• Keep hydrated. Patients can easily forget to drink water.

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• Express thanks to your doctors, nurses and aides for their help.

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• Find a patient representative, case manager or social worker who can help you with questions and concerns.

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• Be considerate of your roommate.

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• Try to laugh every day! 

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