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The Ventilated Patient’s Experience
Dimensions of Critical Care Nursing, 2015Critically ill intensive care unit (ICU) patients often experience pain, anxiety, panic, fear, dyspnea, and distress related to mechanical ventilation. Patients' recollections vary from having little or no memory of actual events to having total recall.
Regina M. Fink +3 more
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2010
The popular images of electroshock presented in the media reflect practices that were discarded more than 40 years ago. The films One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and A Beautiful Mind portray imaginative Hollywood images—not reality. The dramatic scene of a pleading patient dragged to a treatment room, forcibly administered electric currents as his jaw ...
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The popular images of electroshock presented in the media reflect practices that were discarded more than 40 years ago. The films One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest and A Beautiful Mind portray imaginative Hollywood images—not reality. The dramatic scene of a pleading patient dragged to a treatment room, forcibly administered electric currents as his jaw ...
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The Patient Experience and Safety
Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics of North America, 2019Patient harm continues to be a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. Among high-risk industries, the health care system has a significantly lower safety profile than that of others. There are many driving forces behind this, including significant resistance within the medical community in the late 1960s to consumer demand of ...
Stephanie K. Sargent +2 more
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Experiences of an Obese Patient
Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, 2014This narrative symposium was inspired by the American Medical Associations (AMA) decision to label obesity a disease. How do people who have been classifi ed as obese feel this decision impacts on their lives? Personal narrative authors offer their experiences with obesity and healthcare. The symposium also hosts fi ve commentary articles from scholars
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Patient Experience as a Priority [PDF]
Journal of PeriAnesthesia Nursing, 2014 THE LIVED PATIENT experience now serves as a foundational component for the evaluation of quality health care outcomes. Resuscitation status, complication reduction, and health care environment are all critical issues impacting the patient’s perspective of the lived surgical experience.
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Telemedicine journal and e-health, 2019
BACKGROUND Preadmission testing (PAT) before surgical procedures ensures patient safety and decreases last minute case cancellations. INTRODUCTION PAT before surgery improves efficiency for the health system; however, the process is often inconvenient ...
M. Mullen-Fortino +5 more
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BACKGROUND Preadmission testing (PAT) before surgical procedures ensures patient safety and decreases last minute case cancellations. INTRODUCTION PAT before surgery improves efficiency for the health system; however, the process is often inconvenient ...
M. Mullen-Fortino +5 more
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Measuring the patient experience
Nurse Researcher, 2011This paper examines the complex issues of measuring the patient experience and evaluating the quality of health care. It discusses the use of surveys, patient stories and narrative methods of data collection in an attempt to define quality and how it should be measured.A recent Department of Health (DH) document insists that patients will be at the ...
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2016
There are few things more terrifying than being a patient in a hospital. This imposed dependency is not only disorienting but extremely unsettling. Fear seizes the principal and his supportive family. The fear of surviving the episode is first followed closely by the fear of pain. Dr.
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There are few things more terrifying than being a patient in a hospital. This imposed dependency is not only disorienting but extremely unsettling. Fear seizes the principal and his supportive family. The fear of surviving the episode is first followed closely by the fear of pain. Dr.
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