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Involving Patient/Family Advisors And Advisory Councils With Patient And Family Engagement, Cortney D. Forward
Involving Patient/Family Advisors And Advisory Councils With Patient And Family Engagement, Cortney D. Forward
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Health care consumers are under-represented in literature when defining patient and family engagement. The proportion of people living longer is rapidly growing. Future research is needed to evaluate which strategies of patient and family engagement are most useful in real-world health care settings for patient and families. The purpose of this study was to describe the lived experiences of patient/family advisors working within patient family advisory councils at an academic medical center in the Midwestern United States. The conceptual framework is based on Greenleaf's servant leadership and Bass's transformational leadership. The research questions examined how patient/family advisors describe patient and …
Patient Satisfaction With Nursing Care Related To Hospital Magnet Designation, Sharon Haylett
Patient Satisfaction With Nursing Care Related To Hospital Magnet Designation, Sharon Haylett
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Many U.S. hospitals have historically failed to recognize nursing as essential to quality of care. Given the relationship between the patients' experiences, measured by the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS), and government reimbursement, stakeholders now value the role of nurses in the care experience. Some hospitals have pursued Magnet designation, which is a rigorous and costly process, in order to promote patient satisfaction through nurse autonomy and retention. The purpose of this study was to understand whether non-Magnet hospitals received similar HCAHPS scores. Expectancy disconfirmation theory provides a framework to understand the components of patient satisfaction …