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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. Doctors see patients in rushed 15-minute appointments, often without a cursory physical exam. Is this how it really needs to be?

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Virtual Nursing Shifts its Focus to the Patient Experience

Health Leaders | Nursing

Roughly one year ago, on April 1, 2024, Sharp launched its first virtual nursing program in two selected units, focusing primarily on handling admissions from the Emergency Department and discharges. Stone says she and her colleague spent a year researching the concept and looked at roughly 20 virtual nursing programs across the country.

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‘High-quality care is not just about patients but about those delivering care’

Nursing Times

This has recently been updated this year and renamed the Experience of Care Improvement Framework. This new version of the framework offers a more comprehensive tool for trusts to self-assess how well they are delivering positive care experiences. Leary A et al (2024) Why are healthcare professionals leaving NHS roles?

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How a Care Coordination Center Can Improve Care Inefficiencies

Health Leaders | Nursing

"It was essential for us to leverage technology, people, standard processes, and innovation to put together the Care Coordination Center to lock down multiple processes, including our capacity management for patients, patient transfers, virtual patient observation, and virtual nursing," he says.

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Geisinger Moves Towards Virtual Nursing in Post-Acute Care

Health Leaders | Nursing

New year, new goals In 2024, Geisinger had several goals for virtual nursing: to open up the workforce by creating a new role to consider, to improve care quality, and to boost nurse and patient engagement and experience.

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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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How To Become a Sports Physical Therapist: Career Guide

University of St. Augustine for Health Sciences

Get a Sports Physical Therapy Certification After acquiring the prerequisite training, experience and certifications, its time for the final step in how to become a sports physical therapist: taking the sports specialization exam that is offered by the American Board of Physical Therapy Specialties (ABPTS). link] Arvind, S., Mastronardi, V.