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    Quality Measurement Tool Evaluating patient satisfaction shows that there is a link between employee attitudes and patient satisfaction scores (Ransom, Maulik, Nash & Ransom, 2012). If employees are unhappy or dissatisfied, it is difficult to conceal this when interacting with patients and other staff members. The primary reason for evaluating employee satisfaction is to attempt to identify the problem and try to resolve them before an impact on patient care can be seen (Ransom et al., 2012).

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    Abstract Patient satisfaction is considered an important element of the quality of healthcare, a leading indicator of patient outcomes and a top priority for hospitals and providers. There is an increased need to improve quality in the delivery of healthcare services, partly due to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services pay-for-performance reimbursement methods. Adjustments increasing to 2% in 2017 will affect more than 3000 acute nursing facilities nationwide. The Centers for Medicare

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    1 PICOT- Hourly Rounding and Patient Satisfaction PICOT- Hourly Rounding and Patient satisfaction Tamara Sheets NUR216 3/1/2017 ​The highest priority in most hospitals across America is patient satisfaction. Patient satisfaction begins the moment the patient steps in the hospital doors although nurses hold a majority of the responsibility. The face to face interactions between nurse and patient on a day to day basis naturally puts nurses at the front line. Nurses are there

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    Increasing Patient Satisfaction Through Nurse Rounding Nurse rounding is important to hospital-based practice because it directly impacts patient satisfaction (Blakley, Kroth, & Gregson, 2011). It serves as a method to improve quality of care by allowing nurses to routinely visit their patients and provide for any needs while also anticipating any safety concerns. Patients’ overall perceptions of hospital experiences are heavily dependent on how successful nurses are in satisfying the basic needs

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    Cancer treatments can be extremely frightening and intimidating. Patients receiving treatment require adequate knowledge to help them deal with the treatment. Education sessions and preparation that cancer patients get prior to radiation treatment or CT simulation may influence their satisfaction. In this study, authors seek to explore whether the timing of patient education sessions influences levels of satisfaction in women treated for breast cancer. - The author’s purpose, approach or methods

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    Analysis of Satisfaction in Breast Cancer Patients Patient satisfaction is a necessary aspect to gauge the value of care that is provided by hospitals, clinical settings, and inpatient and outpatient facilities. These types of facilities attempt to maintain a high level of satisfaction in order to remain a contender amongst similar facilities in the healthcare marketplace. The quality of care that is provided by nursing professionals tends to be a major contributing factor in patient satisfaction. The concept

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    improve patient satisfaction, decrease patient complications, reduce nurse fatigue, improve nurse retention, decrease patient mortality, and reduce medical and medication error. Intended Audience: My intended audience for this speech is all medical personnel, healthcare providers, and general public of all ages, who are old enough to understand things affecting our healthcare system. Significance: Because nursing is the largest health care profession and nurses provide most of the patient care, and

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    their particular area. All other areas stated that lack of communication and continuity was their opportunity for improvement and working as a team to accomplish the mission was their strength. In order to support and increase customer satisfaction, surveying patients within the first 2 weeks about the current perception of customer service was conducted and shared with the staff. The interventions that were implemented within the second 2 weeks stemmed from the results that were found from the data

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    between Nurses’ perceptions of empowerment and patient satisfaction and is an article that looks at the correlation between nurse empowerment and patient satisfaction (Donahue, 2008). This research looks at the relationship between the levels of nurse empowerment and the level of patient satisfaction in the nurse’s care. This research is valuable to the field of nursing because the possible correlation between nursing empowerment and patient satisfaction, directly affects the way nursing is practiced

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    Dr. Pew, The delivery of care is expected to focus on the medical condition of the patient as health care progresses (Sherer, 2014). This will involve different providers in different organization in an integrated collaborative manner to deliver quality care (Sherer, 2014). Patients have an expectation of their experience in health care as compared to how their experience is fulfilled (Das, Panigrahi, Preetybanra, & Pattanayak, 2017). The restructuring of the way health care is being delivered with

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