Question

Community Hospital is a 400-bed urban hospital, one of six hospitals in a health care system. The nursing department of the hospital is applying to the American Nurses Credentialing Center for Magnet status. Nursing units are working on a number of projects to prepare for the Magnet application process.

1. You are a staff nurse on a medical-surgical floor at the hospital. The unit is trying to improve its culture in patient safety. How would you go about helping to improve the culture of safety on the unit?

2. Discuss four strategies that the nursing unit can use to deliver patient- and family-centered care.

3. You are asked by a newly hired nurse what the nursing-sensitive outcomes mean and why it is important that the unit measure the outcomes. What is your response?

Answer 1

Answer: The improvement in culture patient safety can be easily build up by indulging in the core values of commitment to provide better healthcare opportunities to the patients. It requires better understanding among nurses and patients. To provide better environment so that the patient may feel comfortable.

The four strategies that the nursing unit can use to deliver patient and family centred care are:

• Improve the understanding between patient and healthcare professionals.
• Provide better teaching, education as well as counseling regarding care plan.
• Having cultural competence
• Effective communication.

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