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Authentic Hourly Visits (AHV)

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Improving The Staff Responsiveness By Bundling Care, Practicing Proactive Authentic Hourly Visits, And Using The Four P’S, Robert Vega Dec 2018

Improving The Staff Responsiveness By Bundling Care, Practicing Proactive Authentic Hourly Visits, And Using The Four P’S, Robert Vega

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Staff responsiveness is an important Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) Star Rating composite tool that hospitals monitor because it is consumer-driven information. The intent is that the HCAHPS composite promotes patient satisfaction, contributes to the prevention of harm, and can save millions of dollars (Danaf et al., 2017). On admission, the patient is orientated to their room, provided a nurse call light button to use, and told not to get out of bed alone and to wait for their nurse (Mitchell et al., 2014). On Three North, a gap exists in the delay it …