Enhancing Inpatient Sleep Environments: A Design Thinking Case Study.

Research shows how vital sleep is to total health, with poor sleep having a strong correlation with morbidity and mortality, yet fewer than half of top hospitals have sleep-friendly practices. This article describes a project motivated by the lived experiences of a nurse manager and a hospitalist who partnered to improve the sleep environments on two inpatient units. They used design thinking, empathizing with the patients' experiences with the sleep environment, to design interventions to promote quality sleep.

Design Labs-The Power of .

Design labs are one of the most exciting multidimensional communication and disruption strategies available to health-care teams today. A design lab can be as simple as a gathering of people who use the framework of design thinking to iterate solutions and innovations to problems in their environment. Design labs support teams in exploring solutions for current health-care challenges, in a safe, creative space.

Improving Patient Experience and Team Engagement with Environmental Services: Application of Watson's Theory of Human Caring.

Patient experience and team engagement are key performance indicators in organizational strategic planning. Health-care organizations have a seldom-used resource within acute care settings that expands the ability to improve patients' experiences of their care as well as their own team engagement. Environmental services (ES) staff, the second largest health-care workforce, spend an average of 10 min per patient day interacting with patients and families.

Patient Experience Coordinator: An Innovative Role to Improve Patients' Hospital Experience.

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.

Career Adaptability: An Innovative Measurement to Aid Professional Development of New Graduate Nurses.

This cross-sectional quantitative study explored career adaptability and career intentions in newly licensed nurses working in acute care hospitals throughout North Carolina. Data were analyzed from 277 registered nurses completing an online study instrument. Findings demonstrate a relationship between levels of career adaptability and career intentions, offering career adaptability as a new measurement to explore newly licensed nurses' desire to pursue career and educational change and expand transition programs to include developing career trajectories within organizations.

Connecting Patients' Perceptions of Nurses' Daily Care Actions, Organizational Human Caring Culture, and Overall Hospital Rating in Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Surveys.

Objective: The aim of this study was to connect patients' perceptions of nurses' daily care actions with patients' overall ratings of their hospital experience and hospitals' human caring culture.

Background: The Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) is a national standardized survey measuring patients' hospital experience. Current literature lacks the connections between patients' perceptions of nurses' daily care actions and their overall hospital experience measured by the HCAHPS survey.

To move health care to health caring: a conversation with Julie Kennedy Oehlert, DNP, RN.

The complex nature of health care requires a culture of interprofessionality that supports high-functioning interprofessional teams. Wolf and Prince (2014) wrote, "Culture is the foundation on which any healthcare encounter is delivered" (p. 3).