To understand this, you need to know how community colleges determine "readiness". For the most part, colleges don't review student transcripts, or assess samples of student writing.
A number of patients have implantable devices that might provide data to assist in determining readiness for discharge.
Independent mobility is also a key factor in determining readiness for discharge for older hospitalised patients.
Participants relied on late hunger cues (i.e., crying) rather than early cues (e.g., sucking on fingers, fussiness) to determine readiness to feed [ 23, 24].
The aim of this study was to develop consensus recommendations on safety criteria to determine readiness for actively mobilizing adult, mechanically ventilated, ICU patients.
Hospital policy should clearly discriminate between elective and semi-elective deliveries, and lung maturity should not be the only factor in determining readiness for induction.
This may provide a useful tool to therapists in terms of exercise prescription, determining readiness for locomotor training, as well as monitoring rehabilitation progression.
Despite the fact that the InterQual tool determined medical stability at about the same average time from referral as the acute team, but much earlier than the rehabilitation team, only 11% subsequently became unstable after InterQual determined readiness for transfer.
The number and type of criteria used to determine readiness to wean within protocols varied considerably (ranging from five to 17) and the broadness or restrictiveness of criteria used could have contributed to differences in results.
Nonetheless, adherence to specific validated criteria to determine readiness for medical discharge following a stroke may lead to a reduction of the OAI, which may in turn contribute to cost reductions in acute care hospital [ 5, 28, 29].
