A problem has occurred in one of the five major hospitals in a midwestern city. The hospital is having trouble retaining employees who work as a patient escorts. Many patients have also complained about some of the patient escorts. The patients have claimed that some of the escorts are rude and careless. The job of the patient escort is critical because is the last representative the patients sees before leaving the hospital. The priority of the hospital is to maintain their reputations as one of the best hospitals in the city. And for this reason, it is crucial for the hospital to fix this problem as soon as possible. The hospital needs to come up with a smart solution to be able to maintain their patient escorts and at the same time give a good service in order to keep patients satisfied.
For example, some of the patient escorts are college students who work the early morning shift in the hospital and at night they take classes. Being a college student can be very difficult, the lack of sleep for the college student who works as a patient escort can cause them to get in a bad mood. Another problem with the patient escorts is that they are able to exchange patients with each other, meaning they can change their patient with another escort if
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With the right information the hospital will found out the reason that previous employees quit the job or move to different positions. The hospital should be able to conduct a survey with the patient escort employees so they can express what they like and dislike about the job and they can make comments in which they can explain the ways to make it the position better. Secondly, the hospital should provide a better and longer orientation with the new patient escort employees so they can be more informed about the hospitals'
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Advocacy in action paper is to examine various issues in nursing staffing in the hospital and the impact of this issue on the patient’s care and patient satisfaction. Every nurse role and mission is to take care of a patient and advocate for a safe and healthy work environment. It is very important for all nurses to work together, successfully advocate for nurses and the profession to achieve a safer work environment. My role in this paper is to advocate for improvement, practicing safe in the hospital to improve patient satisfaction and reduction in nurse burnout.
...ctors? Besides, if a hospital works like this , doctors should equip with medical ethics such as, doctor should equip with autonomy of the individual, professional justice ,beneficence to everyone and non maleficent. Otherwise, it loss of meaning of this jobs. It is believed that most of the healthcare staff are enthusiastic. However, there are so many annoying social activities staff should attend but that is not include in their working scope.(醫者心) Therefore, even healthcare staff full of conscientious however it scattered the attention or energy by the social activities. Thus the quality of health care gradually decrease.(irrational non humanized)
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