Patient Essay

convenience was the most common reason patients change primary doctors. More than half of the 1423 patients responding to the survey (53%) were willing to find a new general practitioner that was closer or easier to visit. The same study revealed that recommendations from trusted peers and family members (36%) and positive expectations of service (37%) also ranked high among the stated reasons that a patient was willing to leave one doctor for another. What is driving patients from your practice? Ambiguity

Patient’s safety is an essential and vital component of quality of care. Yet, healthcare providers face many challenges in today’s healthcare environment in trying to keep patients safe. Healthcare organizations are embracing the sciences of safety, improvement, human factors, and complexity to transform their culture into a culture of safety in high reliability. Nurses are the front lines of safety and quality processes and outcomes. Therefore, nurses are required to both understand and develop

Running head: Tracer Summary 1 Patient 453355 Tracer at Nightingale Community Hospital Patient Tracer Summary 2 Patient 453355 Tracer at Nightingale Community Hospital To provide an accurate assessment of the systems and processes for the delivery of care, treatment, and services at the Nightingale Community Hospital, weekly patient chart reviews of patient medical cases is performed using The Joint Commission tracer methodology for a thorough review of current services and possible

Patient safety is an integral part of quality nursing care and patient outcomes. Quality care is dependent on the health care providers, nurses, hospitals, the government, pharmaceutical companies and insurance companies. The perplex multitude of contributing factors dictate the quality and safety that is provided to patients. Each entity is responsible for ensuring safe delivery of care to patients and their families. Our nation’s healthcare system was initially developed to treat acute illnesses

I went to my practicum site twice this week. Learning is the continuous process. Seeing variety of patient with different chief complaints is helping me learn more about various diagnosis. I had a site visit this week. My professor followed me with two patient; one had vertigo and other had back pain. I was nervous because I never had vertigo patient before at the practicum site. One of the suggestion provided by my preceptor was to bring my family practice guidelines book at practicum site to help

need to listen as a moral act. In a sense, it is a person 's duty to listen to the stories of the ill. In doing so, one can more fully comprehend the story being told and in turn, be able to relate in some way to the patient. This allows for a more full understanding of what the patient is going through and opens the eyes of the listener in ways that are beneficial for him/her. This way of thinking often deteriorates when the listener is not just a friend or family, but the appointed physician or doctor

Patient safety is a critical component of the care nurses deliver as we strive to prevent harm to our patients. Nurses work hard every day to provide safe and competent care in the setting in which they work. Gregory et al (2015) defines patient safety as, “the reduction and mitigation of unsafe acts within the health–care system, as well as through the use of best practices, shown to lead to optimal outcomes” (Gregory et al, 2015, p. 233) (also referenced as Davies, Hebert, & Hoffman, 2003, p. 12)

enablers to discuss and reflect on the care of a patient I have been involved with on placement over a period of 5 weeks. ‘Enablers are the essential and underpinning skills that come together to provide expert professional practice’ (Chapelhow, C et al. 2005, p.2). These include; assessment, communication, documentation, risk, professional decision making and managing uncertainty. The enablers work together to provide a holistic approach to the care of patients in health care settings. I am going to focus

body can do funny things. But through the scary and confusing times I was lucky to be blessed with a patient advocate or child life specialist someone to hold my hand through the scary times. To support me and my parents through the lonely times. Who gave us the best of times in the worst of situations. I benefitted from this community and I’d be more than happy to

Patient safety is of utmost importance to prevent errors and adverse effects associated with patients in health care. Yet, 44,000 to 90,000 people die each year from preventable medical errors (Potter & Peter) caused by human factors. According to World Health Organization (2009) human factors is defined as: Environmental, organizational and job factors, and human and individual characteristics which influence behavior at work in a way which can affect health and safety. A simple way to view human