MYTH: There is no real payoff in engaging patients and families.
FACT: Health care organizations can reap many benefits from
“activated” patients and families – those who have the knowledge, skills and confidence to manage their own care.
How does engaging patients help? 1) It may increase quality of life by reducing falls, helping patients learn to manage chronic conditions. 2) It can reduce Underuse or Overuse of health services. 3) It may increases reimbursement through improved HCAHPS scores. And YOU may be more satisfied at work!
TWO EXAMPLES of positive results yielded from partnering with patients and families:
• One hospital that began involving patients and families in safety efforts after a highly publicized preventable death saw a culture shift that improved medication reconciliation and eliminated fatal medication errors during a 10-year period (Johnson & Abraham; Reinersten et al., 2008).
• A health system that began seeking input from patients and families decreased nurse turnover from 15 percent to 5 percent in three years and improved patient, staff and physician satisfaction (Johnson & Abraham).
WHAT CAN I DO TO ENGAGE PATIENTS? Listen to your patients to identify their level of activation in their care as described, & communicate in ways that move them to the next
level.
FOR MORE INFO, check out the source of above: Busting the Myths about Engaging Patients and Families in Patient Safety
CRITICAL THINKING: Think of a strategy that you ALREADY use or that you might start using to move patients up the stages of engagement in their own care. Be specific!
In pain management are you afraid to give comfort to your patients with appropriate medications? Are you afraid to be comforted when in pain? Have you encountered families or care partners, who are afraid to comfort their loved one in pain by giving pain medications?
information. We have to find evidence-based practices that can create a change of heart, if you will. As Zerwekh et al wrote: “Because fear is so influential in decisions to keep pain under control, palliative educational approaches must go beyond providing information to fill deficits in palliative knowledge.”
practice pain assessment & management safely. We know
that asking patients about suicidal intent does not cause them to commit suicide. Does asking patients about pain cause them to have it or to treat pain they don’t have? Hmmm…..
Myth #5: The Joint Commission pain standards caused a sharp rise in opioid prescriptions. This claim is completely contradicted by data from the 
suggest that we might need new studies. I hope only that we won’t jump on the fear bandwagon. Keep practice EVIDENCE BASED, listen to patient/carepartner preferences & values, & use your judgment. 
present your project in a poster. Quite a bit, it turns out! Some posters are definitely better than others.
Critique this poster or another using the “60 second poster evaluation” at 
Google–not to mention yahoo, bing & other web search engines–are mere popularity contests of literature. Google Scholar is a step up, but it is still a search engine. It can miss important articles entirely.
For more info: Look for that 
Use 
Critical thinking: What is something in nursing that has been “bugging” you. Missed care–e.g., inability to get all the tasks done on time? Or discharge med teaching? Or the
numbers. Another problem will occur if the reliability and validity of the self-report questionnaire is not established. (Reliability is consistency in measurement and validity is the accuracy of measuring what it purports to measure.) Additionally, self-reports typically provide only a)ordinal level data, such as on a 1-to-5 scale, b) nominal data, such as on a yes/no scale, or c) qualitative descriptions in words without categories or numbers. (Ordinal data=scores are in order with some numbers higher than others, and nominal data = categories. Statistical calculations are limited for both and not possible for qualitative data unless the researcher counts themes or words that recur.)
An example of a self-report measure that we regard as a gold standard for clinical and research data = 0-10 pain scale score. An example of a self-report measure that might be useful but less preferred is a self-assessment of knowledge (e.g., How strong on a 1-5 scale is your knowledge of arterial blood gas interpretation?) The use of it for knowledge can be okay as long as everyone understands that it is perceived level of knowledge.
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“What’s important is not where an organization begins its patient safety journey, but instead the degree to which it exhibits a relentless commitment to improvement.” – TJC, 2016, p.68
perimental drug X will have better cardiac function than will heart failure patients who receive standard drug Y.” You can see that the researcher is manipulating the drug (independent variable) that patients will receive. And patient cardiac outcomes are expected to vary—in fact cardiac function is expected to be better—for patients who receive the experimental drug X.
1st – Identify the population in the hypothesis—the population does not vary (& so, it is not a variable). 2nd – Identify the independent variable–This will be the one that is the cause & it will vary. 3rd – Identify the dependent variable–This will be the one that is the outcome & its variation depends on changes/variation in the independent variable.