Monthly Archives: October 2015

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  What’s the Role of the Environment in the Patient Experience? Guest Post by Sara Marberry

  The design of the healthcare environment is under attack again — this time by a couple of academics that studied whether improving the patient experience has any impact on readmission rates. In

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  Music to My Ears – Guest Post by Wendy Leebov, Ed.D.

  At 97, my mother has partial dementia. A few weeks ago, she was admitted to the hospital because she had what looked like, but proved not to be a stroke.

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  Encore Post: ICU-Acquired Weakness – Powerlessness in Recovery

  Note:  A busy week, so no new post, but enjoy this encore of one of my most-read posts from 2014. Recently, The New England Journal of Medicine published an article about ICU-acquired weakness. The

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  The Power of Healing is the Nurse

  Telling the story of nursing is like telling the story of everyone who has been ill, been in an accident, or has held a vigil at the bed of a

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  Encore Post: 5 Steps to Optimize the Patient Experience

  Note: My energies are focused on the Middle Eastern Nurses Conference this week, so here’s an encore post that was first published in March 2014. It’s time that we move from hypothesizing

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  Reader’s Choice: Top 10 Blog Posts in 2014

  This past year, I wrote 43 blog posts about a variety of topics related to healthcare.  Topics that resonated the most with readers were posts on patient experience, hospital noise,

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  From Jordan: Human Caring at the Patient Bedside

  I’m in Aqaba, Jordan this week, at the second annual conference of Middle Eastern Nurses and Partners Uniting in Human Caring.  Coming to the Middle East is a step into a

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  Encore Post: HCAHPS Version of Jeopardy – Coming Soon to a Hospital Near You

  Welcome to the game of “Jeopardy 2,” the HCAHPS version of the most popular quiz game on television! Today, we are going to provide some online clues and you have to guess the appropriate HCAHPS question to match the clue.

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  Pain Management is More Than Drugs

  My darling niece, Jessica, at three and a half years of age has already learned all she needs to know about pain management. What she does first is declare what hurts.

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