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Rehumanizing the Patient Experience

Minority Nurse

I’ve recently had the opportunity to spend a great deal of time as a patient, and from my perspective, the patient experience is often sadly lacking. We can ask ourselves how patients are greeted in our facility, whether it’s an outpatient provider office or an acute care hospital ER.

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5 Risk Control Considerations as Nurse Practitioners’ Scope of Practice Expands

Minority Nurse

For example, according to the NSO and CNA Nurse Practitioner Claim Report: 5th Edition , which analyzed professional liability claims data, the average total incurred of NP professional liability claims in the 2022 report dataset was $332,137, which was more than a 10.5% to 35.3% (CNA & NSO, 2022). to 35.3% (CNA & NSO, 2022).

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Engage with patients eye to eye

American Nurse

Take a bundled approach to improve the patient experience. Takeaways: The bundle approach to implementing the commit-to-sit initiative positively impacts patient experience scores. This cluster randomized crossover trial didn’t find improvement in patient satisfaction scores.

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What Is an MSN Degree? (And Why It Matters)

Post University

According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing , about 17% of the nursing workforce held master’s degrees in 2022. As the healthcare landscape continues to evolve, there is heightened demand for MSN-prepared nurses.

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How ChristianaCare is Expanding the Capabilities of Virtual Nursing

Health Leaders | Nursing

Goals for the program ChristianaCare launched a pilot of their virtual care program in 2022 with the primary goal of reducing burden at the bedside and giving time back to nurses to care for patients. According to Brown, the virtual acute care nurse program has had a significant impact on patient experience and on new nurses.

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Nursing Shortage: A 2024 Data Study Reveals Key Insights

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

The Retirement Drain The population surge from the baby boomer generation has led not only to a greater number of aging patients but also means that a large portion of the nursing workforce is heading toward retirement – which makes the nurse shortage even more severe. 13 Another study conducted in California correlated an 8.9%

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Path to Penn Nursing with Katelyn A. Kuwata Esq.

Penn Nursing

During her final clinical rotation (Labor & Delivery), patient experiences a stillbirth—a situation that shapes Katelyn’s desire to care for people in their most terrible moments. High patient-nurse ratios at her first nursing job on a West Coast hospital telemetry unit opens Katelyn’s eyes to patient safety issues.