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Translating Provider And Staff Engagement Results To Actionable Planning And Outcomes, Roberto Cardarelli, Madeline Slimack, Ginny Gottschalk, Michael Ruszkowski, Jessica Sass, Kristen Brown, Rachel Kikendall, John J. Allard, Kelly Burgess, Maggie Luoma, Wanda Gonsalves

Family and Community Medicine Faculty Publications

Staff and provider engagement leads to better quality and experience of care and less turnover and burnout. In this program, we describe an approach to better understand underlying factors that lead to low staff and provider engagement and address such factors by creating actionable plans that drive improved engagement measures. Focus groups were conducted with staff, advance practice providers, and faculty to better understand low scored areas in an annual third-party engagement survey. Focus group results were analyzed, and thematic action plans were then developed by a leadership team. These plans and the status of addressing the identified issues were …

Methods To Improve Interprofessional Collaboration In Administrative Dyads, Julie Lee Hudson

DNP Projects

Abstract

PURPOSE: The primary objective of this project was to determine if specific interventions, to include education, rounding, and regular meetings, improved collaboration and communication for nurse/physician dyads working in acute care hospital administrative roles.

METHODS: The study employed a prospective pre-test and post-test comparison of participants’ scores on a validated survey tool. This tool (JeffSATIC) measured perception of collaboration between nurses and physicians. The objective was to evaluate the differences in these scores in participants before and after an intervention.

RESULTS: This study sought to discover if specific interventions impacted scores on a tool measuring collaboration among dyad pairs. …