Reexamining “Defining Patient Experience”: The human experience in healthcare

Defining Patient Experience

In recent years, perceptions of performance and quality of healthcare organizations have begun to move beyond examining the provision of excellent clinical care, alone, and to consider and embrace the patient experience as an important indicator. There is a need to determine the extent to which clear and formal definitions exist, have common overarching themes, and/or have unique, but important...

Defining hypnosis: the UK experience.

This paper discusses approaches to defining hypnosis with reference to three components: suggestion, trance, and induction. The author favors a “minimalist” approach that specifies the essential features of the procedure adopted by the hypnotist. Hypnosis having been thus defined, the processes that underlie the diverse responses and experiences of subjects are determined empirically, rather th...

Distracted Practice and Patient Safety: The Healthcare Team Experience.

PROBLEM Distracted practice is the result of individuals interacting with the environment and technology in the performance of their jobs. The resultant behaviors can lead to error and affect patient safety. METHODS A qualitative descriptive approach was used that integrated observations with semistructured interviews. The conceptual framework was based on the distracted driving model. FIND...

Experience of nursing students in the first exposure to the patient under chemotherapy ‎

Background: Caring for people with cancer and chemotherapy is emotionally challenging. Nursing students, as people who are in the future accepting nursing roles, are no exception. Therefore, it is very important to know their experiences in the first exposure to the patient under chemotherapy in order to train efficient staff and provide quality care. Method: This study is a descriptive phenome...

Patient experience measurement ignores mental health: suggestions for healthcare organizations.