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Showing 1 to 20 of 46 for “"nurse and patient"”.
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Throughput and Nurses' Workloads: Influences on Nurse and Patient Outcomes
Patient turnover, or throughput, through nursing units can significantly impact the workloads of nurses. However, very few staffing measures account for patient throughput, thus underestimating nurses' workloads. Research has shown that when nurse staffing is more favorable, patient and nurse …
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Nurse and patient perception of stressors associated with coronary artery bypass surgery
… study investigated the relationships between the nurses' and patients' perception of stressors associated with coronary artery bypass surgery. The population of the study consisted of two groups: (1) patients recovering from coronary artery bypass surgery, and (2) registered nurses providing the …
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Learning Needs of Ostomy Patients: A Comparison of Nurse and Patient Perceptions
… will attempt to identify areas of agreement and disagreement between the ostomy patient's perception and the nurse's perception of learning needs. In order to achieve this purpose, the objectives of the study were:<br> ,1. Determine the different perceptions regarding the importance of …
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Organizational, Nurse, and Patient Empowerment at a Magnet and Non-Magnet Hospital
… the relationships between organizational, nurse, and patient empowerment at a Magnet designated hospital versus a non-Magnet designated hospital. There are three aims to the study. Aim 1 examines the relationship between level of organizational empowerment and individual nurse …
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The Advanced Practice Nurse and Patient-Centered Medical Home: Maintaining Patient Focus, Meeting the Institute for Healthcare Improvement Triple Aim Through the Electronic Health Record
… the Heath Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act (HITECH) in 2009, which incentivized providers to use electronic health records (EHR) for meaningful use (MU); the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) stems from the Act. Research by the National Council on Quality Assurance …
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A therapeutic nursing relationship
The relationship between nurse and patient is important to nursing care and health outcomes. This relationship can be therapeutic for both nurse and patient. However, the current lack of conceptual consensus and descriptive clarity in nursing theory has precluded the relationship from the realms of …
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Clinical nurse specialist-driven communication bundle to improve patient satisfaction
Background: Patient satisfaction provides valuable insight on how to improve the patient experience. The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey is a method that measures patient satisfaction which includes nursing and provider communication. Ineffective …
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The Chaldean Lived Experience of Hospitalization
<p><strong>Abstract</strong></p> <p>Nurses are guided by The American Nurses Association Code of Ethics to establish relationships of trust with their patients. For many years, nursing has been identified as the most trusted profession and nurses have been ranked highly regarding their honesty and …
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Variation in Organizational Resources and Nurse & Patient Outcomes at Hospitals Serving Economically Disadvantaged Patients
… at hospitals serving economically disadvantaged patients. The organizational resources available to nurses, including appropriate levels of nurse staffing and a positive practice environment, are strongly associated with care quality, as well as nurse and patient outcomes. However, little is …
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Developing Ostomy Educational Tools To Decrease Hospital Length Of Stay
… is aimed at reducing length of stay (LOS) for patients undergoing elective ostomy surgery from the current twelve days (Kirkland-Kyhn, 2017), to less than five days. Methods included use of a Pre-Ostomy Survey, which was distributed and completed by the nursing staff. Pre-survey analysis …
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Genuinely caring: compassion and the healing nature of the therapeutic relationship
… in this area has been largely theoretical, and empirical investigation has been limited. This qualitative study aimed to construct an understanding of the nature of compassion in nursing and what makes it possible, in order to address the paucity of research and lack of consensus in this …
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Factors Influencing Quality of Emergency Department Nurse Shift Handover
Nurse-to-nurse shift handover communication is an essential exchange of information that occurs at shift change with the purpose of ensuring that incoming nurses have necessary information to take responsibility for their patients and to provide high quality, safe care. Poor quality shift handover …
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Improving patient outcomes through use of the teach-back method in the Post Anesthesia Care Unit
<p>The setting for this Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) project was the Post Anesthesia Care Unit (PACU) at a level I trauma center in the Bay Area. The goal was to improve the discharge education performed by the PACU nurses to improve patient safety and decrease the chance of complications or …
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Presence in Nursing Practice: A Critical Hermeneutic Analysis
… quality of relating that is ethically generated and has real-world implications for both patient and nurse. It is an interpersonal process characterized by sensitivity, holism, intimacy, vulnerability, and adaptation to unique circumstances that results in enhanced mental wellbeing for nurses and …
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Creating a Healing Environment: Strategies Christian Nurses Use
<p>Nursing metaparadigm concepts of nurse, person, environment, and health are the conceptual building blocks which provide direction to nursing research and knowledge development (Fawcett & Desnato-Madeya, 2013). Interaction of person, nurse and environment facilitate optimal outcomes yet, there …
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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 use on …
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An Exploration Of Charge Nurse Decision-Making Related To The Nurse-Patient Assignment On Adult Medical-Surgical Inpatient Units
ABSTRACT AN EXPLORATION OF CHARGE NURSE DECISION-MAKING RELATED TO THE NURSE-PATIENT ASSIGNMENT ON ADULT MEDICAL-SURGICAL INPATIENT UNITS Colin Plover Julie Sochalski, PhD, RN, FAAN Statement of the Problem: In adult inpatient medical-surgical settings, the nurse-patient assignment serves as a …
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The Development of Trust in the Nurse-Patient Relationship with Hospitalized Mexican American Patients
… population in the United States is growing and this population experiences health care disparities compared to non-Hispanic Whites. Mexican Americans are the largest sub-group of Hispanics and providing nursing care that is patient-centered and culturally competent is important when caring …
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