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Improving The Patient Experience Through A Commit To Sit Service Excellence Initiative, Cari D. Lidgett
Improving The Patient Experience Through A Commit To Sit Service Excellence Initiative, Cari D. Lidgett
Patient Experience Journal
Effective communication between nurses and patients positively impacts patient care, outcomes, and the patient experience.While in the hospital, patients receive information from multiple caregivers and are often overwhelmed and confused. Nurses make up the majority of interactions with patients and are in an ideal position to improve the patient experience from the front lines. The purpose of implementing the Commit to Sit service excellence initiative was to positively impact the patient’s perception of nurse communication by nurses sitting with their patients during each shift. Outcomes were measured by the overall nurse communication composite on the Press Ganey survey, as well …
‘First, Do No Harm’: Shifting The Paradigm Towards A Culture Of Health, Karen Luxford
‘First, Do No Harm’: Shifting The Paradigm Towards A Culture Of Health, Karen Luxford
Patient Experience Journal
Over the past 17 years since the release of the Institute of Medicine report ‘To Err is Human’,1 health services and agencies around the world have increasingly focused on improving the safety and quality of health care. Historically, the commitment by health care professionals to ‘first do no harm’ has produced a focus on the absence of interventions that may cause adverse outcomes. This clinical approach links to the Hippocratic Oath which includes the promise "to abstain from doing harm". The Oath reminds clinicians to first consider the possible harm that any intervention might do. This approach to interactions …