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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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Intellectual and developmental disabilities: Nurse advocacy

American Nurse

In patients with IDD, constipation sometimes presents as maladaptive behaviors, such as self-injury or lashing out. Constipation also may be diagnosed during an assessment for pneumonia or other respiratory illness; the patient experiences shortness of breath as the stool pushes the diaphragm higher into the chest. Dehydration.

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Bending the Arc on Gender Affirming Care

Penn Nursing

But a subtler driver of success might be an institution’s commitment to nursing innovation and empowerment, given that nurses spend the most time with a patient and can be their most informed advocates. It could be a brush with bad etiquette, like a physician or nurse addressing the patient with incorrect pronouns or their deadname.