The High-Risk Postpartum Transitional Program: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Caring for Postpartum Woman With Hypertensive Disease

As primary coordinators of postpartum care, the nurses' role is a critical factor in its development, implementation, and success. Postpartum clinical nurses educate these women about their disease and its effect on future health, and consult with other professional disciplines such as social work and the unit-based clinical pharmacist to provide additional resources. Unit-based clinical resource coordinator nurses arrange postdischarge home care nursing services for BP and symptom monitoring and women's health nurse practitioners offer inpatient support and a mechanism for home care nurses to triage identified concerns and reinforce education. This program offers nursing research opportunities to study the effect of nursing interventions on postpartum morbidities, such as hypertensive disease.