Nurse Engagement: What are the Contributing Factors for Success?

2016 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Dempsey ◽  
Barbara Reilly
Keyword(s):  
Compassion Fatigue ◽  
Patient Experience ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
Current State ◽  
Delivery Outcomes ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Strategic Imperative ◽  
The Continuum

The concept of nurse engagement is often used to describe nurses’ commitment to and satisfaction with their jobs. In reality, these are just two facets of engagement. Additional considerations include nurses’ level of commitment to the organization that employs them, and their commitment to the nursing profession itself. Because nurse engagement correlates directly with critical safety, quality, and patient experience outcomes, understanding the current state of nurse engagement and its drivers must be a strategic imperative. This article will discuss the current state of nurse engagement, including variables that impact engagement. We also briefly describe the potential impact of compassion fatigue and burnout, and ways to offer compassionate connected care for the caregiver. Such insight is integral to the profession's sustainability under the weight of demographic, economic, and technological pressures being felt across the industry, and is also fundamental to the success of strategies to improve healthcare delivery outcomes across the continuum of care.

Gaining patient experience insights

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Maitane GARCÍA-LÓPEZ ◽  
Ester VAL ◽  
Ion IRIARTE ◽  
Raquel OLARTE
Keyword(s):  
Type 1 Diabetes ◽  
Patient Experience ◽  
Patient Perspective ◽  
Continuum Of Care ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Cognitive Responses ◽  
The Continuum

Taking patient experience as a basis, this paper introduces a theoretical framework, to capture insights leading to new technological healthcare solutions. Targeting a recently diagnosed type 1 diabetes child and her mother (the principal caregiver), the framework showed its potential with effective identification of meaningful insights in a generative session. The framework is based on the patient experience across the continuum of care. It identifies insights from the patient perspective: capturing patients´ emotional and cognitive responses, understanding agents involved in patient experience, uncovering pain moments, identifying their root causes, and/or prioritizing actions for improvement. The framework deepens understanding of the patient experience by providing an integrated and multi-leveled structure to assist designers to (a) empathise with the patient and the caregiver throughout the continuum of care, (b) understand the interdependencies around the patient and different agents and (c) reveal insights at the interaction level.

scholarly journals Overview of Sample Preparation and Chromatographic Methods to Analysis Pharmaceutical Active Compounds in Waters Matrices

Separations ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
Cristina M. M. Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Sample Preparation ◽  
Water Cycle ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Pharmaceutical Compounds ◽  
Soil Environment ◽  
Extraction Techniques ◽  
Active Compounds ◽  
Preparation Methods ◽  
Current State ◽  
Potential Impact

In the environment, pharmaceutical residues are a field of particular interest due to the adverse effects to either human health or aquatic and soil environment. Because of the diversity of these compounds, at least 3000 substances were identified and categorized into 49 different therapeutic classes, and several actions are urgently required at multiple steps, the main ones: (i) occurrence studies of pharmaceutical active compounds (PhACs) in the water cycle; (ii) the analysis of the potential impact of their introduction into the aquatic environment; (iii) the removal/degradation of the pharmaceutical compounds; and, (iv) the development of more sensible and selective analytical methods to their monitorization. This review aims to present the current state-of-the-art sample preparation methods and chromatographic analysis applied to the study of PhACs in water matrices by pinpointing their advantages and drawbacks. Because it is almost impossible to be comprehensive in all PhACs, instruments, extraction techniques, and applications, this overview focuses on works that were published in the last ten years, mainly those applicable to water matrices.

A secondary analysis of the library profession’s self-reported competence and comfort in working with patrons with disabilities

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
JJ Pionke
Keyword(s):  
Graduate School ◽  
Information Science ◽  
Secondary Analysis ◽  
Assistive Technologies ◽  
Library And Information Science ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Current State ◽  
Practical Implications ◽  
The Continuum

PurposeThis article presents a secondary analysis of previously published data in order to drive discussion of the library profession’s current state of preparedness in working with patrons with disabilities.Design/methodology/approachThis article used a secondary analysis of survey data that have been previously published to determine what the continuum of data said about the current state of preparedness in the profession when working with people with disabilities.FindingsA comparison of the data from both surveys reveals that there are not only gaps in library graduate school education related to disability and accessibility but also that those gaps are not being addressed through professional development and staff training after students enter the workforce.Research limitations/implicationsThis was a secondary analysis of data, so no new data could be added. There was also no representation from library graduate school administration.Practical implicationsAn awareness is built that there needs to be more instruction for library graduate students and library employees on topics related to disability, accessibility and assistive technologies.Originality/valueThe topic has never been studied before in this kind of continuum of data, and the use of the secondary analysis of data with the library and information science profession is exceedingly rare.

An Android-Enabled PHR-based System for the Provision of Homecare Services

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vassiliki Koufi ◽  
Flora Malamateniou ◽  
George Vassilacopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Point Of Care ◽  
Treatment Plan ◽  
Personal Health Record ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Appropriate Treatment ◽  
Treatment Plans ◽  
The Continuum

Homecare is an important component of the continuum of care as it provides the potential to improve quality of life and quality of healthcare delivery while containing costs. Personal Health Record (PHR) systems are intended to reach patients outside of care settings and influence their behaviors thus allowing for more effective homecare services. To this end, these systems need to evolve well beyond providing a consolidated patient record, in ways that make it more widely applicable and valuable to health systems. The development of applications on top of PHR systems can allow them to function as a platform for both patients and healthcare professionals to exchange information and interact with the health system. This paper presents a prototype PHR-based system that aims at supporting chronic disease management at any point of care or decision making through familiar environments such as Google’s Android. In particular, it assists healthcare professionals in assessing an individual’s condition and in forming the appropriate treatment plan for him/her while it provides individuals with step-to-step guidance to their treatment plans.

scholarly journals Current State of ICT in Healthcare Delivery in Developing Countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (08) ◽  
pp. 91 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adebayo Omotosho ◽  
Peace Ayegba ◽  
Justice Emuoyibofarhe ◽  
Christoph Meinel
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Health Delivery ◽  
Current State ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
Information And Communication

Electronic health is one of the most popular applications of information and communication technologies and it has contributed immensely to health delivery through the provision of quality health service and ubiquitous access at a lower cost. Even though this mode of health service is increasingly becoming known or used in developing nations, these countries are faced with a myriad of challenges when implementing and deploying e-health services on both small and large scale. It is estimated that the Africa population alone carries the highest percentage of the world’s global diseases despite its certain level of e-health adoption. This paper aims at analyzing the progress so far and the current state of e-health in developing countries particularly Africa and propose a framework for further improvement.

scholarly journals Toward Multistate Pharmacy Practice: Enhancing Mobility and Portability of Pharmacist Licensure

2020 ◽  
pp. 106002802094525
Author(s):  
Alex J. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Lower Cost ◽  
Mutual Recognition ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Pharmacy Practice ◽  
Nursing Profession ◽  
Transfer Model ◽  
Recognition Model ◽  
Administrative Burden ◽  
Current State ◽  
Pharmacy Profession

Pharmacists are licensed in all 50 states. As society becomes increasingly mobile and interconnected, several models of cross-state pharmacy practice have emerged, straining the current state-based system of licensure. The nursing profession has provided a model for license portability that offers 3 primary advantages over the current pharmacist licensure model while still protecting safety: (1) faster speed, (2) lower cost, and (3) reduced administrative burden. A hybrid approach for the pharmacy profession that builds off of the expedited license transfer model and adds a mutual recognition model is ideal.

scholarly journals The Definition and Scope of Diagnostic Error in the US and How Diagnostic Error is Enabled

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 128-134 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Laposata
Keyword(s):  
Patient Outcomes ◽  
Healthcare Delivery ◽  
Quality Of Healthcare ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Diagnostic Error ◽  
Cost Of Care ◽  
Contributing Factors ◽  
The Us ◽  
First Time

Abstract Background The quality of healthcare in the US has been progressively addressed by 3 reports from the National Academy of Medicine, the latest of which, entitled “Improving Diagnosis in Health Care,” was issued in 2015 from a 21-member panel (the author of this report was a member). The report is a review of the longstanding problem of diagnostic error. The infrastructure of healthcare delivery in the US has inadvertently made diagnostic error a major contributor to the high cost of care and preventable poor patient outcomes. Content This review describes the failures in US healthcare delivery that have led to the overwhelming number of deaths attributable to diagnostic error. Each failure is associated with recommendations to eliminate it. The review begins with a description of the scope of the diagnostic error problem and then discusses each of the issues that need to be addressed to reduce the number of misdiagnoses. Summary The problem of diagnostic error in the US is a large one. Some the contributing factors to this large problem can be resolved at a small expense and with modest change; others require a major overhaul of aspects of medical practice. For the first time, Americans have a “to-do list” to reduce our diagnostic error problem and be on par with other developed countries that are recognized as providing less costly care with better patient outcomes.

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