Patient-Centered Care Transition for Patients Admitted through the ED: Improving Patient and Employee Experience:

Journal of Patient Experience

AndreaAlgauer¹ 

关键词: patient satisfaction;    emergency department;    patient transition;    patient experience;   

DOI  :  10.1177/237437431500200106

学科分类：医学（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

With increasing wait times in emergency departments (ED) across America, there is a need to streamline the inpatient admission process in order to decrease wait times and more important, to increase patient and employee satisfaction. One inpatient unit at New York-Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center initiated a program to help expedite the inpatient admission process from the ED. The goal of the ED Bridge program is to ease the patient's transition from the ED to an inpatient unit by visiting the patient in the ED and introducing and setting expectations for the inpatient environment (i.e. telemetry alarms, roommates, hourly comfort rounds). Along with improving the patient experience, this program intends to improve the collaboration between ED nurses and inpatient nurses. With the continued support of our nurse management, hospital administrators and most important, our staff, this concept is aimed to increase patient satisfaction scores and subsequently employee satisfaction.

【 授权许可】

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