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Educating Nurses to Improve Patient Care
… County Medical Clinic is a rural county primary care clinic serving veterans and low-income patients with chronic illnesses, especially diabetes mellitus. As a CNL educator for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Management, this project focused on on best practice diabetes management …
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Impacting Patient Care Experiences: Hourly Rounding
<p><strong>Impacting Patient Care Experiences with Hourly Rounding</strong></p> <p>My global aim consists of cultivating communication and staff responsiveness within a busy, nursing unit in an urban setting within a San Francisco hospital; thereby improving the patient’s perception of staff …
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Physiotherapists’ perceptions of spirituality in patient care
Background: Healthcare delivery has evolved significantly over the past decades, with increasing recognition that effective patient care extends beyond the treatment of physical symptoms to encompass the psychological, social, and spiritual dimensions of human experience. The World Health …
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Emotional Intelligence: Better Nursing, Better Patient Care
… have increased job satisfaction, provide better patient care, and improve patient satisfaction.</p> <p><strong>Purpose</strong>: To assess what nurses on a medical/surgical unit know about El and to determine if nurses feel that development of El skills through a workshop would help nurses with …
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Patient Care Sitter Reduction and Fall Safety Improvement
… upon operational budgets by the frequent use of patient care sitters is well known among hospital leadership. Despite the high labor costs associated with direct and continuous observation, this intervention is routinely deployed by frontline care teams in an effort to preserve patients from …
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Patient Care Technology and the Nurse-Patient Relationship
… devices are increasingly used in healthcare and their proliferation has providers questioning the impact on the patient-provider relationship. Technological device integration has been studied in the primary care setting, less extensively in the acute care setting. The impact of device …
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Hospital Fall Prevention Using Interactive Patient Care Technology
The impact of patient engagement in hospital fall prevention using interactive patient care technology is not known. The purpose of this investigation was to examine the engagement of hospitalized patients in a computer-based, interactive patient care fall prevention pathway, comprised of a …
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Synovial sarcoma : translating gene expression into patient care
… clinically effective systemic therapy to improve patient outcome. I describe preclinical studies that demonstrate the Hsp90 inhibitor 17-allylamino-17-demethoxygeldanamycin (17-AAG) inhibits proliferation of synovial sarcoma by inducing apoptosis and that this is associated with degradation of …
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Job Satisfaction in One Non-Direct Patient Care Setting
… and autonomy for nurses employed in a nondirect patient care setting. The sample consisted of 107 Registered Nurses employed in nine locations who adjudicate Medicare Part A claims. Each nurse was asked to complete the Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire and the Minnesota Importance …
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Reduction in Delayed Patient Care on the Medical-Surgical unit
… through utilizing the BRT, which could enhance patient safety and satisfaction by reducing delayed patient care on 3 North medical-surgical department at CPMC. The data retrieved from nurses in the past 3 months has shown that 30% of the patients had delayed care due to daily bedside rounds. By …
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Improved Communication for Safer Patient Care: The Implementation of SBAR
… intradepartmental communication between Urgent Care Center (UCC) staff, through standardized SBAR patient hand-offs. The aim is to improve; (1) the consistency and clarity of patient hand-offs, (2) staff experience and satisfaction with communication during hand-offs, and (3) prevent adverse …
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Improving Patient Care Outcomes by Standardizing Change of Shift Report
… during a nurse’s day. It is a time where vital patient information is passed off from one nurse to the next. There is evidence that the root cause of many sentinel events and poor patient outcomes in related to communication breakdown during the change of shift report process. The Joint …
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Mapping Current Adult Intensive Care Unit Patient Care Rounding Practices
… communication is essential for high quality patient care; within the ICU the majority of health care provider communication occurs during patient care rounds. While several best practices for rounds have been proposed it is unclear if they are being used in Canadian adult Intensive Care Units …
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Evaluation of Diagnosis Related Groups: Impacts on Cost and Patient Care
… hospital charges was evaluated on Medicare program costs and quality of patient care. Through a comprehensive literature review, three measurements in the quality of patient care, and statistical analysis, it was concluded that DRGs have resulted in shifted medical services and reduced …
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The Development of Standardized Patient Controlled Analgesia Documentation to Improve Patient Care
<p>On a 28 bed post-surgical unit, reviewing patient records revealed only 26% had thorough patient controlled analgesia (PCA) documentation. A pre-quiz no staff knew all of the required components for documentation or which policies to reference and, on average, the staff were only able to …
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Macroergonomics to Understand Factors Impacting Patient Care During Electronic Health Record Downtime
… computer support systems have provided healthcare operations with new safety nets, and efficiency increases, but also introduce new problems when they suddenly go offline. These downtime events are chaotic and dangerous for patients. With the safety systems clinicians have become accustomed to …
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Conceptual and theoretical approaches to patient care : associated versus baccalaureate degree prepared nurse
… and conceptual and theoretical approaches to patient care. A secondary purpose of the study was to determine if there is a relationship between entry-level basic preparatory nursing education and nursing leadership, the ability to make nursing diagnosis, and implementation, as well as …
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Assessing Organizational Systems Redesign In Improving Management and Patient Care: An Implementation Study
<p>Access to care and healthcare expenditure remain top tier priorities within several domains of population health, impacting Safety Net Hospitals in particular, and affecting a need to optimize care to meet systems and individual care needs, while operating under ever increasingly limited …
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