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Research suggests that nonverbal and verbal communication between health care professionals and patient can lead to improved patient outcomes. [16] According to Atkin and Silk on page 496 [14] some health care facilities, like hospitals are providing training and education materials to patients. The goal of hospitals doing this is to allow for ...
The End-of-Life Nursing Education Consortium (ELNEC) project is a national education initiative whose mission is to improve palliative care. [1] The project provides an undergraduate and graduate nursing faculty, CE providers, staff development educators, specialty nurses in pediatrics, oncology, critical care, and geriatrics, and other nurses with training in palliative care so they can teach ...
Since its inception, the INPM has appealed to a broad range of professionals, including psychologists, therapists, coaches, educators, and medical professionals. Their Meaning Conference is the only international conference completely devoted to meaning from different theoretical perspectives and disciplines.
Team nursing is based on philosophy in which groups of professional and non-professional personnel work together to identify, plan, implement and evaluate comprehensive client-centered care. The key concept is a group that works together toward a common goal, providing qualitative, comprehensive nursing care.
The Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) is an American not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving health care in quality, safety, cost-effectiveness and access through the best use of information technology and management systems. It was founded in 1961 as the Hospital Management Systems Society.
The Andersen healthcare utilization model is a conceptual model aimed at demonstrating the factors that lead to the use of health services. According to the model, the usage of health services (including inpatient care, physician visits, dental care etc.) is determined by three dynamics: predisposing factors, enabling factors, and need.
In recognition of a growing consensus that there is an ethical imperative for health care professionals to share important decisions with patients, several countries in Europe, North America [68] and Australia have formally recognized shared decision-making in their health policies and regulatory frameworks. [69]
The Alma-Ata Conference mobilized a "Primary Health Care movement" of professionals and institutions, governments and civil society organizations, researchers and grassroots organizations that undertook to tackle the "politically, socially and economically unacceptable" health inequalities in all countries.