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Rehumanizing the Patient Experience

Minority Nurse

I’ve recently had the opportunity to spend a great deal of time as a patient, and from my perspective, the patient experience is often sadly lacking. It’s never fun to be a patient, and being left in the timeless dark — hungry, bored, thirsty, and without information — can be an awful moment in time.

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Hospitals Reduce Infection Rates Post-Pandemic

American Nurse

The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit patient-safety organization, said the data it collected from Oct. The national average hospital rate for all three infections peaked in Leapfrog’s fall 2022 report, which encompassed Oct. 2021 through Dec. 2020 to Dec.

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What Is an MSN Degree? (And Why It Matters)

Post University

As a result, there is a considerable strain on the nursing workforce, as nurses are often on the front lines when it comes to managing the needs of patients and communicating with caregivers. According to the American Association of Colleges of Nursing , about 17% of the nursing workforce held master’s degrees in 2022.

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Emergency Departments Adopt Creative Strategies to Discourage Patients from Leaving BeforeTreatment Is Complete

Consult QD

Despite national trends, Cleveland Clinic Akron General and its three satellite facilities in Bath, Green and Stow have seen a dramatic decrease in the number of ED patients who LBTC since 2020, when the hospital began to implement several plans designed to decrease department crowding and improve communication.

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Broken trust

American Nurse

li> Trust is innately abstract, but the Reina Three Dimensions of Trust—Trust of Character, Communication, and Capability —can serve as a behavioral-based blueprint that makes trust tangible, practical, and actionable. When people feel invisible or unheard, Trust of Communication breaks down.

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Medication safety

American Nurse

This integrative review found that nurses typically used their own and other professionals’ clinical experience to guide decision-making despite having access to reference materials, online resources, and nursing journals. Pulse on the nation’s nurses survey series: 2022 workplace survey. August 2, 2022. July 31, 2024.

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Nursing professional development at night

American Nurse

AACN highlights that nurse satisfaction with the profession has declined in the past 4 years, from 92% in 2018 to 76% in 2022. At monthly night council meetings, the NPD practitioners, nurses, and a patient care experience representative work on projects that affect the overall patient experience. October 2022.