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The “Wreckage” Left By The Covid-19 Passage: Thoughts Of A Palliative Care Nurse, Angela Simões
The “Wreckage” Left By The Covid-19 Passage: Thoughts Of A Palliative Care Nurse, Angela Simões
Patient Experience Journal
Today, according to Johns Hopkins University, the overall number of global COVID-19 cases has exceeded 244 million with more than four million deaths. Humankind is currently facing an unprecedented global crisis. The impact of this crisis on the healthcare system is potentially far greater than we imagine. This narrative presents a series of stories lived by a palliative care nurse in COVID's time to show how the pandemic itself is a form of inequity and health disparities on the human experience. In my previous narrative, written in April 2020 and published in the Patient Experience Journal Vol. 7, Issue 2, …
How To Address Fear: A Patient’S Perspective Of Seeking Care During Covid-19, Rosie Bartel, Sydney Hoel, Nasia Safdar, Mary Jo Knobloch
How To Address Fear: A Patient’S Perspective Of Seeking Care During Covid-19, Rosie Bartel, Sydney Hoel, Nasia Safdar, Mary Jo Knobloch
Patient Experience Journal
This article is a narrative of one patient’s experience during COVID-19. As a non-COVID patient, she shares her personal fears, the fears of others in her family and the fears of the healthcare professionals. These fears have made navigating the healthcare systems stressful for patients but also caused patients to avoid them completely. In some cases, this avoidance led to delayed diagnosis, missed diagnosis and death. When healthcare providers guide patients through the process of seeking in-person healthcare, the outcomes were more positive for everyone involved but especially for the patients and their care partners. The patient’s voice is needed …
The Experience, Satisfaction, And Emergency Department Utilization Of Pediatric Patients With Sickle Cell Disease During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Alexandra E. Kirsch, Nataly Apollonsky
The Experience, Satisfaction, And Emergency Department Utilization Of Pediatric Patients With Sickle Cell Disease During The Covid-19 Pandemic, Alexandra E. Kirsch, Nataly Apollonsky
Patient Experience Journal
The COVID-19 pandemic has influenced how patients utilize healthcare. This study examines the utilization, experience, and satisfaction of patients with Sickle Cell Disease (SCD) in the pediatric Emergency Department (ED) during the COVID-19 pandemic compared to the care they had received before the pandemic. The authors surveyed fifty-eight participants ages 14 months to 20 years who presented to the ED for a complaint related to their SCD during the COVID-19 pandemic. The study analyzed five variables: race, SCD severity, hemoglobin (Hgb) genotype, who completed the questionnaire (patient versus parent/guardian), and whether the ED visit resulted in an admission to the …
Moving From Talk To Action: A Commitment To Ensuring Equity Must Ground Our Efforts To Transform The Human Experience, Jason A. Wolf Phd
Moving From Talk To Action: A Commitment To Ensuring Equity Must Ground Our Efforts To Transform The Human Experience, Jason A. Wolf Phd
Patient Experience Journal
When we first introduced the call for submissions for this special issue last August, we were still churning in the first wave of the COVID pandemic. Just three to four months from the start of an unending rash of unexpected and harsh realities that we were faced with in healthcare and in society at large, we too found that the moment was revealing all the weaknesses and wounds that had existed in the foundations of the healthcare system from well before the pandemic hit. Our own research at The Beryl Institute in 2020 reinforced a quiet reality: that people do …
Surveying Pediatric Caregivers’ Readiness For Dyad Isolation In The Hospital During Covid-19, Shanqing Yin, Mei Zi Quek, Celestine Mun Ting Yeo, Sylvia Mun, Ronghui Li, Derrick Chan
Surveying Pediatric Caregivers’ Readiness For Dyad Isolation In The Hospital During Covid-19, Shanqing Yin, Mei Zi Quek, Celestine Mun Ting Yeo, Sylvia Mun, Ronghui Li, Derrick Chan
Patient Experience Journal
The onset of any emerging outbreak is stressful for everyone. Singapore was one of many countries affected early by COVID-19. In response, many precautionary measures were quickly initiated, including the isolation of suspected COVID-19 pediatric cases, and their caregivers were isolated together with their hospitalized children as a result. Caregivers play an important role in facilitating their child’s health in the hospital. Rooming in with their children during hospitalization promotes the benefits of parental presence and reduces separation effects. However, sudden admission with strict movement restrictions poses stress to these caregivers too. This study ran a 3-part paper-based survey to …
An Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of A Unique Patient Experience Response Program That Provided Virtual, Visual And Emotional Connectivity To Patients And Families During The Covid-19 Crisis, Diane Burshtein, Donna Powers
An Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of A Unique Patient Experience Response Program That Provided Virtual, Visual And Emotional Connectivity To Patients And Families During The Covid-19 Crisis, Diane Burshtein, Donna Powers
Patient Experience Journal
In April 2020, the New York State Department of Health issued guidelines regarding suspension of hospital visitation due to coronavirus disease 2019 to protect staff and patients and prevent spread of the virus. Recognizing that patients would need extraordinary emotional support as they faced this frightening journey, two hospitals from a health system in the national epicenter provided avenues to bridge gaps in connectedness and communication. Our program provided virtual, visual and emotional connectivity by utilizing repurposed staff to serve as patient experience ambassadors. This program reduced the burden on clinical staff while preventing furlough. A descriptive correlational study …
The Influence Of Covid-19 Visitation Restrictions On Patient Experience And Safety Outcomes: A Critical Role For Subjective Advocates, Geoffrey A. Silvera, Jason A. Wolf Phd, Anthony Stanowski, Quint Studer
The Influence Of Covid-19 Visitation Restrictions On Patient Experience And Safety Outcomes: A Critical Role For Subjective Advocates, Geoffrey A. Silvera, Jason A. Wolf Phd, Anthony Stanowski, Quint Studer
Patient Experience Journal
With the emergence of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic in the United States in early 2020, hospitals across the country made the difficult decision to alter visitation policies, by either limiting visitations or restricting visitations altogether by closing access to family, friends and care partners in an effort to reduce further spread of the virus. While there is foundational research on the impact of family and care partner presence on the experience of patients and patient safety outcomes, the actions driven by the pandemic allowed for a real-time comparison of the impact of family or care partner presence or lack thereof. …
No Visitors Allowed: How Health Systems Can Better Engage Patients’ Families During A Pandemic, Jennifer Schlimgen, Amy Frye
No Visitors Allowed: How Health Systems Can Better Engage Patients’ Families During A Pandemic, Jennifer Schlimgen, Amy Frye
Patient Experience Journal
The ravages of COVID -19 and the no visitor policies that accompany it have forged a tectonic shift in the patient and family experience. This hit home for me with a recent family member health event and hospitalization, leading me to think “we HAVE to do better!” Why should hospitals and health systems care about family involvement during COVID-19?
Experience Framework
This article is associated with the Patient, Family & Community Engagement lens of The Beryl Institute Experience Framework (https://www.theberylinstitute.org/ExperienceFramework).
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