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How to Keep Patients Satisfied — and Raise Your Patient Satisfaction Scores

Relias

Improving patient experience scores is a goal for many healthcare organizations — and for good reason. Patient experience is directly tied to patient retention, reimbursement, and in many cases, better patient outcomes. Does patient satisfaction equal better health outcomes?

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How Nurses Can Influence Health Equity

Diversity Nursing

For example, some people may live in rural areas where they cannot easily access routine health exams. Others may need help understanding health recommendations due to language barriers. Whatever the disadvantage, health disparities can lead to poor health outcomes that negatively contribute to health equity.

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Innovation in Nursing: Everything it Takes to Be a Nurse Innovator and Innovators to Watch Out For!

Diversity Nursing

Nurses spend a significant amount of time with patients, making them expertly qualified to contribute ideas to personalize care plans, enhance communication, and improve the overall patient experience. It is often the top motivator of Nurse innovators.

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Digital-First Strategies For Nursing

Carlow Today & Tomorrow

Digital technology has given nurses the power to work efficiently and communicate effectively. However, the transition from traditional service models to digital-first health care is not easy. It is made less complicated by collaboration, communication and strong leadership.

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Care Coordination: The Key to Improving Patient Outcomes

Relias

Coordination of care is the process of organizing and integrating health care services for patients across care settings and providers. As a strategy, it can also help reduce racial and ethnic disparities in maternal and infant health outcomes, which are among the widest and most persistent in the nation.

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Strengthening the Role of Nurses in High-Reliability Cultures  

Consult QD

Rooted in quality and safety excellence, high-reliability cultures lead to better health outcomes and patient experiences, improved efficiency, increased job satisfaction and more. The interactive, self-guided modules contain questions, videos, quizzes and real-life examples of Cleveland Clinic patients and caregivers.

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Using Virtual Reality to Teach Students about Social Determinants of Health

Council of Public Health Nursing Organizations

Immersive experiential learning, such as Virtual Reality (VR), allows students to experience the impacts of SDOH and develop creative solutions to improve health outcomes while encouraging students to learn from another person’s perspective.

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