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Patient Experience Best Practices: An Exemplar Of Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Ebp Mentor Team Led Inquiry, Jodie Pufundt, Kelly Perez, Megan Morgan Nov 2023

Patient Experience Best Practices: An Exemplar Of Advanced Practice Registered Nurse Ebp Mentor Team Led Inquiry, Jodie Pufundt, Kelly Perez, Megan Morgan

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Background/Rationale

Patient experience is one of the five tenets of the Quintuple Aim- population health, cost of care, clinician wellbeing, and health equity. The Aim is a model for achieving high quality, safe, and cost-effective care. Engagement is an important strategy for reaching an optimal state of the patient and family care experience. At our organization, the patient experience scores have been static and under target for a while, despite implementation of many interventions. A team of APRN evidence-based practice (EBP) Mentors (Clinical Nurse Specialists and a Nurse Practitioner) engaged in the EBP process identified practices that impact the patient …


Bridge To Practice: Program Initiation And Evaluation, Seung Kapusta, Dulce Torres, Sara Marzinski, Jeanne Hlebichuk, Jami Tutino Nov 2023

Bridge To Practice: Program Initiation And Evaluation, Seung Kapusta, Dulce Torres, Sara Marzinski, Jeanne Hlebichuk, Jami Tutino

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Background/Introduction: Mentoring is important in preparing nursing students to work in the complex health care work environment. A nurse’s personal and professional development is impacted through mentoring; however, the traditional clinical mentor and environment are not always conducive to the full mentoring relationship capacity.

Objective: The Bridge to Practice program was initiated in Fall 2022 as a partnership between a quaternary medical center site and local university to pair second year nursing students with experienced nurses to explore the reality of work environment, specialty practice settings, and mentorship. Information sessions are held monthly over nine months and lead by mentors …