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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 website (Medicare.gov, n.d.). HCAHPS star ratings on Hospital Compare provide snapshots of 10 measures of patient experience of care combining all 10 into a single, comprehensive metric (Medicare.gov, n.d.). The HCAHPS star ratings can also compare hospitals to each other. A 1-star rating hospital versus that of hospitals that got 2 or more stars performed better on a particular measure of patient experience of care and doesn’t necessarily mean you will receive poor patient care (Medicare.gov, n.d.).
What you mean by the term HCAHPS and descibe in detail about its importance in health care delivery system.
please reply back to this post & ask one question regarding this post: HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer...
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 back to this post & ask one question regarding this post: 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...
please reply back to this post and ask one question regarding this post: Nurses work directly with patients and therefore are directly involved in almost all aspects of hospital quality. Nurses do patient care, medication administration and management and they assist with surgeries. All these task require the nurse to data collect and report which are required for quality control and improvement. “The demand for quality improvement in hospitals is ever increasing due to federal government mandates” (TRNQI, 2017). Reported...
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...
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please reply back to this post & ask one question regarding this post: As a nurse, when you supervise Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN) or Certified Nursing Assistants (CNA), our role as nurses must be to take into account patient safety, the competency of the staff members and the acuity of the patients. The RN who supervises must know the basic competencies and their ability to perform the task. I intend to take accountability and know when to delegate and how...
please reply to this post and ask one question regarding this post One of the greatest changes that impacts health care quality and reimbursement today is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also referred to as the "Affordable Care Act" or "Obamacare". The PPACA was signed by President Barack Obama in March of 2010. The purpose of this act was to ensure that all Americans would have access to affordable health insurance by eliminating barriers to obtaining health...
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please reply back to this post and ask one question regarding this post: After exploring the Sigma Theta Tau website, I immediately noticed their logo and underneath the word Sigma it says global nursing excellence. I noticed the amount of resources they offer and that they are not only a local organization that supports the nursing institution, but it supports nursing in a global standard. Sigma has members that reside in over 90 countries, at more than 700 institutions throughout...