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Patient Experience Coordinator: An Innovative Role to Improve Patients' Hospital Experience
Julie Kennedy Oehlert1, Lou Montana-Rhodes, Kevin N Hill
1Author Affiliations: Chief Experience Officer (Dr Oehlert); Vice President of Experience Operations (Dr Montana-Rhodes); Director of Analytics (Hill), Office of Experience; Director of Hospitality and Language Accesses Services (Maldonado); and Manager of Hospitality (Bishop), Vidant Health, Greenville, North Carolina; and Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship (Dr Wei), East Tennessee State University College of Nursing, Johnson City, Tennessee.
Objective:
The aim of this study was to test the impact of an innovative nonclinical support role to improve patient experiences while supporting nurse work on inpatient units.
Background:
On the basis of the Hospital Consumer Assessment of Health Care Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) survey, patients' experience declined nationally during the COVID-19 pandemic. A nonclinical support role, titled an Experience Coordinator, was created as a test of change to collaborate with care teams and respond to patients' and families' nonclinical needs.
Methods:
This is a quality improvement (QI) project for a supportive role development and implementation. The health system's HCAHPS data were compared before and after the role was tested on 3 inpatient units.
Results:
The HCAHPS data indicated that 5 of the 10 domains' top box ratings increased during the QI project month compared with the previous month.
Conclusion:
The study findings may support the implementation of new innovative nonclinical positions to alleviate nurses' workload and promote patients' hospital experience.
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