SP-0580: Patient education - tools to improve patient positioning

Changing education to improve patient care.

Health professionals need competencies in improvement skills if they are to contribute usefully to improving patient care. Medical education programmes in the USA have not systematically taught improvement skills to residents (registrars in the UK). The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has recently developed and begun to deploy a competency based model for accreditat...

Using Tracking Tools to Improve Patient Flow in Hospitals

Executive Summary Hospitals in the United States are experiencing financial and operational stress. Margins are thin and bed capacity is at a premium. Experts project the need for new bed capacity to rise 20 percent by 2012.1 Adding new physical capacity is often out of the question. In some urban areas, the estimated cost of adding physical capacity can exceed $1 million per bed. For a facilit...

Using Tracking Tools to Improve Patient Flow in Hospitals

Executive Summary Hospitals in the United States are experiencing financial and operational stress. Margins are thin and bed capacity is at a premium. Experts project the need for new bed capacity to rise 20 percent by 2012.1 Adding new physical capacity is often out of the question. In some urban areas, the estimated cost of adding physical capacity can exceed $1 million per bed. For a facilit...

Emergency Medicine specialty May Improve Patient Satisfaction

Barriers to Patient Education in Clinical Care Viewpoints of Nurses

Introduction: Patient education is considered as a standard in quality of nursing care. It is counted as an accrediting criterion for the organizations that provide health services. Meanwhile, there are evidences indicating the failure in this area. As a result, this study aimed to determine barriers to patient education in managerial, individual care-giving, as well as patients and caregivers ...