For those of you that decide to work in a hospital setting, you will find that YOU are one piece of a big picture that significantly impacts patient care, satisfaction, and ultimately, reimbursement.
The New England Journal of Medicine reported that the quality of care was significantly better in hospitals that performed exceptionally well on HCAHPS. Meeting core measures are now an expectation for hospital reimbursement. These subjects may be new to you bit this discussion will help enlighten you as you hear these terms used more after you are working as an RN.
What is HCAHPS and how will you play a role?
Choose one of the HCAHPS survey questions and state one tactic that you, the RN, can use to influence patients to answer \u201calways\u201d
A few helpful websites to google for either question include:
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
The Joint Commission
The Studer Group <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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