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Patient And Family Partner Involvement In Staff Interviews: Designing, Implementing, And Evaluating A New Hiring Process, Sara-Grey M. Charlton, Shannon Parsons, Kimberly Strain, Agnes T. Black, Candy Garossino, Leanne Heppell Nov 2015

Patient And Family Partner Involvement In Staff Interviews: Designing, Implementing, And Evaluating A New Hiring Process, Sara-Grey M. Charlton, Shannon Parsons, Kimberly Strain, Agnes T. Black, Candy Garossino, Leanne Heppell

Patient Experience Journal

Healthcare organizations in Canada and the United States are seeking to enhance their ability to offer patient and family centred care (PFCC). One aspect of PFCC is the participation of Patient and Family Partners (PFPs) in a variety of roles within healthcare organizations. This article describes the creation and evaluation of a hiring process that utilized a PFCC interview tool (PFCCIT) and collaborated with PFPs in interviewing candidates for healthcare positions. An evaluation of the new hiring process was designed, including an on-line survey of candidates and semi-structured interviews with healthcare leaders and PFPs. Survey results indicated candidates felt the …


The State Of Patient Experience, Jason A. Wolf Phd Nov 2015

The State Of Patient Experience, Jason A. Wolf Phd

Patient Experience Journal

As the patient experience movement continues to flourish, there is greater alignment that experience encompasses all we do in healthcare – not simply a customer encounter, but how we engage people in mind, body and spirit, how we integrate the critical aspects of care from quality to safety to service and how we link the very complexities of our healthcare systems globally to provide for easy journeys for those receiving care. In sharing data from the latest study for The Beryl Institute on patient experience, the trends of this growing movement are seen as positive and a set of clear …