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  2. Patient experience - Wikipedia

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    Patient experience describes the range of interactions that patients have with the healthcare system, including care from health plans, doctors, nurses, and staff in hospitals, physician practices, and other healthcare facilities. [1] [2] Understanding patient experience is a key step in moving toward patient-centered care.

  3. Patient participation - Wikipedia

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    A medical doctor explaining an X-ray to a patient. Several factors help increase patient participation, including understandable and individual adapted information, education for the patient and healthcare provider, sufficient time for the interaction, processes that provide the opportunity for the patient to be involved in decision-making, a positive attitude from the healthcare provider ...

  4. Bullying in nursing - Wikipedia

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    Dealing with abuse can lead to professionals not wanting to come to work. Researchers have found out that 13% of missed workdays are because of workplace violence and how it could affect the quality of care that the patients are getting. [23] Another major effect of the abuse is that the nurses are getting very burnt out.

  5. Perceived organizational support - Wikipedia

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    Emotional support is just as important in employee health as it is in non-work related circumstances. It is important for POS to be high because an employee's feeling of belonging, respect, and support raises his or her morale, which has a positive effect on performance. It is similar to the feeling of support from family and friends. [8]

  6. Workplace wellness - Wikipedia

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    Workplace wellness, also known as corporate wellbeing outside the United States, is a broad term used to describe activities, programs, and/or organizational policies designed to support healthy behavior in the workplace. This often involves health education, medical screenings, weight management programs, and onsite fitness programs or ...

  7. Patient advocacy - Wikipedia

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    Patient advocacy, as a hospital-based practice, grew out of this patient rights movement: patient advocates (often called patient representatives) were needed to protect and enhance the rights of patients at a time when hospital stays were long and acute conditions—heart disease, stroke and cancer—contributed to the boom in hospital growth.

  8. Social support - Wikipedia

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    In the buffering hypothesis, social support protects (or "buffers") people from the bad effects of stressful life events (e.g., death of a spouse, job loss). [65] Evidence for stress buffering is found when the correlation between stressful events and poor health is weaker for people with high social support than for people with low social ...

  9. Peer support - Wikipedia

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    Peer support occurs when people provide knowledge, experience, emotional, social or practical help to each other. [1] It commonly refers to an initiative consisting of trained supporters (although it can be provided by peers without training), and can take a number of forms such as peer mentoring, reflective listening (reflecting content and/or feelings), or counseling.