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Being a student in all of the hospitals made me realize how important it is to communicate with patients about each step of their care. Many times I have witnessed healthcare providers talking to one another about the care, however, the main patient never gets the whole picture. They have gaps in information, and are struggling to understand what is wrong with them at the moment. Providing proper communication and filling in the knowledge deficits will not only be able to make the patient a better version of being their own healthcare advocate, but will also encourage compliance once they leave the hospital.
Communication is very important in providing the quality of care to the patients. The communication removes the barrier of misunderstanding as well as enable patient to understand things more clearly. The gap of communication can cause poor quality of care provided to the patients. The effective communication increases the efficacy of treatment.
The question arises that in the case of cultural differences where the patient does not able to understand the language, how the gap of communication can be removed?
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please reply back to this post & ask one question regarding this post: HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) can be described as a national survey that asks patients about their experiences during a recent hospital stays (Medicare.gov, n.d.). Hospitals differ in the quality of care and services they provide to patients. HCAHPS star ratings allow consumers the access to quickly and easily assess the patient experience of care information that is provided on the Hospital Compare...
please reply back to this post and ask one question regarding this post The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), better known as Obama Care or Affordable Care Act has revolutionized healthcare in numerous ways. The relationship between quality care and higher rates for service has had little to no existence in a system based on being charged for service (Marquis, & Huston, 2017). Unlike private insurances, Obama Care has not only increased extended health insurance coverage for many...
please reply back to this post & ask one question regarding this post: Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems or HCAHPS is a national standardized survey that reports how patient’s rate and perceive hospital care. This system is important because it evaluates the hospital’s performance and allows more improvement for areas that the patient’s perceive them lacking. Ways that I believe I can improve or potentially contribute is ensuring patient safety and comfort at all times. It is...
please reply to this post and ask one question regarding this post: “According to the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report, To Err Is Human,4 the majority of medical errors result from faulty systems and processes, not individuals”(Hughes, 2008).Because errors are caused by some fault in the system it is important to implement several methods to identify inadequacies in the care patients receive as well as ways to prevent future errors from occurring. Many hospitals develop and implement important protocols to...
please reply back to this post & ask one question regarding this post: Provision 3 of the Code of Ethics for Nurses states "the Nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety, and rights of the patient". When I am working as a RN, these provision is something that I need to practice and accomplish everyday. Nurses are patient advocates and we accomplish this by educating our patients to ensure they are making informed decisions, involving the...
please reply to this post and ask one question regarding this post: I believe nurses as lobbyists are essential to the growth of nursing as a profession. Nurses who lobby and push for political change in healthcare do it to advocate for their patients, change in practice issues, and to advocate for the nursing profession. Nursing is the number one trusted profession; they perform direct patient care and can offer a point of view that others in politics cannot. In...
please reply back to this post and ask one question about this post: To improve a patient's overall health behaviors and outcome the healthcare and staff need to plan out specific goals and interventions that fit the patient's needs, taking into consideration the patient's culture, support system, mental health and physical health. This goal must be individualized to the patient, allowing for positive rapport between patient and the provider. The first element in motivating a patient to improve health behaviors...
please reply back to this post and ask one question about this post: Socialization in the workplace is defined as the process by which a person acquires the technical skills of their society, the knowledge and types of behavior that are acceptable, and the attitudes and values that make conformity with social rules personally meaningful (Huston, 2014). Socialization with colleagues is beneficial in creating a better learning environment and can be especially helpful when a graduated nurse is transitioning into...
please reply to this post and ask one question regarding this post: Nurses are faced with a number of ethical dilemmas every day. There will be many cases in which a nurse will have to refer to nursing code of ethic to deal with these challenging decisions. "The Code of Ethics is the social contract that nurses have which exemplifies our profession's promise to provide and advocate for safe, quality care for all patients” (ANA, 2001). As nurses we must...
please reply to this post and ask one question regarding this post: Nursing informatics is a specialty that supports nursing through the integration of information science, computer science, nursing science to provide data communication management (Darvish et al., 2014). With technology advancing most hospitals have incorporated electronic health records, as this eases documentation and transfer of information between healthcare staff it can also present an issue with keeping the patient’s privacy. The ANA’s Code of Ethics for nurses states the...