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Patient-Centered Care Concepts Patient-centered care is the focus of bringing the patient to be more hands on with their care and have a voice about their medical needs. For this to be applicable, the entire medical staff needs to be effective and have a good source of communication between one another (Epstein, R. M., & Street, R. L. (2011). The goal of this paper is to provide effective exemplars and tools in providing positive patient-centered care to achieve positive patient outcomes by…

Patients depend on their doctors to provide them with honest and accurate diagnosis, treatment, and medical counseling. However, this isn’t always the case for some doctor/patient relationships. Although there are no specific laws stating that doctors cannot lie or withhold information from patients, doctors are generally expected to follow a code of ethics. A patient is more likely to establish a faithful relationship with their doctor if the doctor treats the patient with respect and courtesy…

Patient Navigation Patient navigation is a process that an individual guides the patient through healthcare journey of treatments, financial process; help with cultural change, communication barriers, healthcare system, transportation issues and fear (Freeman, 2004). The patient navigation profession became known in 1990 when Dr. Harold P. Freeman founded the first patient navigation program in order to make sure his cancer patients had a good clinical experience (Freeman, 2013). Over the…

Patient Engagement in Healthcare Introduction The implementation of the Co-Design approach in Patient Engagement within the healthcare setting has been attributed to the improvements in many aspects of the patients’ experiences across various levels of the healthcare system. However, despite its potential to improve the patients’ experience of healthcare, the recent introduction of the approach still requires further studies in order to understand, develop and implement it to its full potential…

Patient satisfaction is a key component in our value chain due to the high customer contact nature of service organizations. Overall our healthcare systems entertain over 1,000,000 patient visits per year. The layout of our facilities matches the need to have high customer contact at several points in the process. Patients come into our patient care areas and are greeted by our greeters and directed to staff that register the patients before their appointment begins. As a healthcare system…

It can affect the physical and social abilities, which leads to the patients not knowing who or where they are. This means that when patients with this condition come into hospital, there may be a communication barrier due to extreme confusion and memory loss. In order to overcome this the adult nurse will have to adjust the terminology used, to allow the patient to understand and make the correct decisions. Dementia patients will continue with their treatment, until the adult nurses believe…

Efficient patient education is of the utmost importance for patients who have been diagnosed with congestive heart failure (CHF). In order for a patient to adhere to the complexities of their care, it is essential for them to have a thorough understanding of the necessary lifestyle changes they must adopt. Therefore, patient education for care after discharge should begin upon admission (Messina, 2016). Certainly, when a patient is autonomous in their care, positive patient outcomes tend to…

In hospitalized patients, call light systems have become the most effective form of communication with their healthcare providers. An active device such as the call light, is supposed to be a critical component of patient safety as well as satisfying the patient’s request. In researching articles, many problems were described in how the patient’s perception of effective communication with healthcare workers played a vital role in the patient’s use of call lights. Other articles researched had…

wife and three children. It is important to do an individualised patient assessment for several reasons. First of all, every patient is different. This means that what may work for one may not work for another. Some patients may recover quicker and some can take longer. The severity of a stroke can also affect this as the damage can be different, patients can need distinct types of help and care due to this. Families of the patient can also impact the care. Some families may want to help a lot…

Patient satisfaction is defined as the judgment made by patients who received care as whether the care have been provided met their expectation or not (1). Patient satisfaction is used for measuring the quality of care provided. Higher patient satisfaction is linked to improved health outcomes (2,3). Satisfied patients are more likely to return for further care and to recommend the physician and the health center to other (4-7). In addition, satisfied patient is more likely to develop a…