Improving Patient and Family Experience in Level One Post Anesthesia Care Unit

dc.contributor.advisorCampbell-O'Dell, David
dc.contributor.authorChen, Pei-Chun
dc.contributor.departmentGraduate Nursing Scienceen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-04-26T13:03:08Z
dc.date.available2022-04-26T13:03:08Z
dc.date.issued2022-04-25
dc.description.abstractHistorically speaking, post-anesthesia care units (PACU’s) have been closed off to visitation. However, several studies on the patient experience of care that demonstrates that family visitation in PACU not only increases patient and family satisfaction, but also decreases their anxiety. The purpose of this project was to improve family outcomes by implementing family visitation in the PACU, utilizing two new valid survey items in the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Outpatient and Ambulatory Surgery survey (CAHPS OAS). This project sought to demonstrate the need to change the focus from health care to optimizing health for patients and their families in the implementation of family visitation in the PACU. The basis for the implementation of this intervention rested on the Family-Centered Care model of practice. Pre-implementation and post-implementation surveys were conducted and collected into two different sets of data. The project result is clear that patient and family satisfaction increased by implementing family visitations in the PACU.en_US
dc.description.degreeD.N.P.en_US
dc.identifier.citationChen, P (2022). Improving Patient and Family Experience in Level One Post Anesthesia Care Unit [ Doctor of Nursing Project Report, East Carolina University College of Nursing]. The Scholarship. End citation: (Chen, 2022) Narrative citation: Chen (2022)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10342/10569
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectfamily visitation, family satisfaction, patient satisfaction, PACU, recovery room, patient-family centered care, family presenceen_US
dc.titleImproving Patient and Family Experience in Level One Post Anesthesia Care Uniten_US
dc.typeDNP Scholarly Projecten_US
ecu.campusonlyOpen Accessen_US

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