1 2 Nursing Research Utilization Project Proposal: Literature Review and Solution Patient-centered care and education is an aspect of quality whereby care is customized to mirror the needs of individual patients. It is a situation where patients themselves get involved and participates in the care they receive. Integral to patient-oriented focus and education is discharge planning. Discharge planning is a process that is undertaken to establish what patients require to transition smoothly from one level of care to the other. Most discharge planning, if not all, involves team approach including those numerous risks across a lifespan. Such factors range from lifestyle or hereditary diseases to bacterial as well as viral diseases. Such ailments affect the progression of patient-centered care and education measures. This paper aims to analyze and discuss means on which proposed solutions address the issue of patient-centered care and teaching within the continuum of care. Analysis of Proposed ...