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.

Making tortillas without lard: Latino parents' perspectives on healthy eating, physical activity, and weight-management strategies for overweight Latino children.

Latinos are among the most overweight racial/ethnic groups of US children. The study aim was to identify parents' perspectives on healthy eating, physical activity, and weight-management strategies for overweight Latino children. Four focus groups were conducted of Mexican immigrant, Mexican-American, Puerto Rican, and other Latino families with overweight children.

Interpretations of interpretations: combining community-based participatory research and interpretive inquiry to improve health.

Background: Latina immigrants from Mexico suffer significantly increased morbidity and mortality from cervical cancer when compared with non-Hispanic White women, largely owing to lack of screening and appropriate treatment.

Objectives: To demonstrate that by combining the tools of community-based participatory research (CBPR) with the tools of interpretive inquiry, it is possible to address explicit community concerns surrounding a particular problem such as cervical cancer while also examining what other, perhaps less immediately visible, matters consume the time and attention of community members.

Methods: We first briefly discuss and compare CBPR as an approach to research and interpretive inquiry as a qualitative research method.

Beliefs about the pap smear among Mexican immigrants.

Few studies have examined Latinos' beliefs about the Pap smear or what uses they attribute to the procedure. We conducted qualitative interviews with 28 Mexican immigrant women and 23 Mexican immigrant men recruited through snowball sampling. We found that individuals learned about the Pap smear from a wide variety of sources and often understood the exam to be a screening test for sexually transmitted infections in general.