About the Course
A culture of “always” is possible today in healthcare. Every day we go to work with the earnest intent to provide excellent care for our patients and their families. The HCAHPS (Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems) survey is a tool to achieve our goal. While what is measured on HCAHPS is likely what we would want for our loved ones, and everyone who wears a badge impacts HCAHPS performance, there is usually a disconnect in results. This course goes beyond understanding the data. You will learn how to drive change using skills to impact patient experience culture with practical, real world strategies you can immediately adopt.
This course is best for:
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Leaders
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Physicians
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Staff
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Anyone looking to improve healthcare communication
By the end of this 15-part course, you will be able to:
- Identify strategies to engage staff and physicians in Patient Experience and HCAHPS performance
- Provide training and development on key competencies that will improve service and quality
- Build Experience Domain specific action plans to influence performance
- Engage learners in strategies to build and broaden excellent patient experiences
Lessons:
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Lesson 1
Elevating Your Patient Experience Strategy
Creating HCAHPS excellence in our organization requires a roadmap with guideposts to show us where we can improve. In this course discover why the “Always” culture is important and how it leads better outcomes across the organization. Learn how achieving “always, every time” is reflected in your HCAHPS survey results. (Video Duration: 10min:50s)
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Lesson 2
HCAHPS Fundamentals
Understanding the why behind HCAHPS, how our patients are being surveyed and in what areas is key to knowing how best to leverage the “voice” of the patient through HCAHPS data survey results. Gain a firm foundation of HCAHPS in this fundamental micro learning. (Video Duration: 16min:32s)
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Lesson 3
The Patient Perspective
Learn why the patient perspective is so important. Understanding patients’ perceptions of the healthcare experience vs our view will unlock actionable steps to improve your patient experiences of care. Discover six ways you can increase your ability to” walk” in your patient’s slippers, gown, or gurney. (Video Duration: 22min:08s)
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Lesson 4
Highly Reliable Patient Experiences
Providing consistency in our care is crucial to achieving best outcomes related to quality to safety to financial and more. We must focus on the “always” experience with every encounter to develop a culture of excellence. Following the CARES model for highly reliable patient experiences will give us the actions steps behind our intent to serve with excellence. (Video Duration: 19min:06s)
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Lesson 5
Universal Strategies for Improvement
Sometimes the biggest obstacle to improving is knowing where to start. In this very impactful and practical lesson you will be given a set of competencies and tools to support you in your work to improve HCAHPS in your organization. (Video Duration: 16min:54s)
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Lesson 6
Emergency Department Strategies
The emergency department holds one of the most important transitions of care, ED to a unit. This one transition influences a patient’s perceptions in how we are doing in more than one HCAHPS domain. Grow in your knowledge of key drivers that impact your HCAHPS survey. (Video Duration: 6min:24s)
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Lesson 7
Maximizing Internal Coaching with the Experience Guide
Building teams through internal coaches that are focused on creating an “always” culture by providing excellence patient experiences will escalate your successes with each of the HCAHPS survey domains. In this lesson learn about a HCAHPS Experience Guide can be a key resource in developing your internal coaches. 8:32(Video Duration: 8min:32s)
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Lesson 8
Nurse Communication
Discover what weight each question in this domain carries and how it influences each of the other questions. Success in this domain depends upon leadership communication and engagement with bedside care givers. Learn how this domain influences all of the domains in the HCAHPS survey. (Video Duration: 4min:23s)
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Lesson 9
Doctor Communication
This domain in the HCAHPS survey is where your patients rate their experience with all medical staff beginning in the emergency department and their hospital stay. Learn how you can create strategies with physician champions leading the way in impacting patient perceptions. Your HCHAPS Experience Guide is a great source to develop your strategies. (Video Duration: 8min:26s)
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Lesson 10
Responsiveness
Gain tools and resources to create practical strategies to improve your patients’ ratings on the HCAHPS survey. Dive into the four questions patients use to rate on our responsiveness while staying in our hospital. Learn how patient perceptions may differ from our as providers and caregivers. (Video Duration: 5min:19s)
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Lesson 11
Hospital Environment
Using your HCAHPS Experience Guide, discover how leaders and staff can set patient expectations, narrate our work, and use patient rounding to gain real time feedback to make adjustments as needed. Grow in your knowledge of patient’s standard of expectations that guide their survey responses. (Video Duration: 6min:58s)
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Lesson 12
Medication Communication
Deep dive into the two items on the HCAHPS survey effect your patients rating on how well they understand what we are saying when we give a new medication. This domain is critical to quality and patient experience outcomes. Learn ideas, strategies and techniques that will support your teams in excellent medication communication. (Video Duration: 5min:03s)
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Lesson 13
Care Transitions & Discharge Communication
Use your HCAHPS Guide as a support in learning about every question in this HCAHPS domain and what the average ratings in this domain are nationally. Discover the risks of lack of adherence in discharge or transition instructions when leaving the hospital. Learn how to demonstrate the importance of medication communication, medical appointment follow up, and all of the instructions given. (Video Duration: 6min:35s)
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Lesson 14
Overall Rating and Recommendation
Overall ratings reflect a patient’s perceptions while in your care over a multitude of touch points. Move from very good to excellent by using your HCAHPS Experience Guide to boost your organizations performance by an understanding of what specifically influences your patients overall rating. (Video Duration: 4min:28s)
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Lesson 15
Build, Broaden, and Sustain Excellence
Learn the key components to consistency and sustainability to improvement programs in any area- HCAHPS, Quality, Patient Experience, etc. Through a focus on 5 key steps, you can make a clear path to build momentum and sustain gains that maintain success in your organization. (Video Duration: 10min:31s)
Creating HCAHPS Excellence
Purchase this HXA Instructional course to gain access to 15 video lessons on Creating HCAHPS Excellence. This one-time fee grants individual access to this course and supporting materials for 12 consecutive months from date of purchase.
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Lesson 1
Elevating Your Patient Experience Strategy
Creating HCAHPS excellence in our organization requires a roadmap with guideposts to show us where we can improve. In this course discover why the “Always” culture is important and how it leads better outcomes across the organization. Learn how achieving “always, every time” is reflected in your HCAHPS survey results. (Video Duration: 10min:50s)
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Lesson 2
HCAHPS Fundamentals
Understanding the why behind HCAHPS, how our patients are being surveyed and in what areas is key to knowing how best to leverage the “voice” of the patient through HCAHPS data survey results. Gain a firm foundation of HCAHPS in this fundamental micro learning. (Video Duration: 16min:32s)
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Lesson 3
The Patient Perspective
Learn why the patient perspective is so important. Understanding patients’ perceptions of the healthcare experience vs our view will unlock actionable steps to improve your patient experiences of care. Discover six ways you can increase your ability to” walk” in your patient’s slippers, gown, or gurney. (Video Duration: 22min:08s)
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Lesson 4
Highly Reliable Patient Experiences
Providing consistency in our care is crucial to achieving best outcomes related to quality to safety to financial and more. We must focus on the “always” experience with every encounter to develop a culture of excellence. Following the CARES model for highly reliable patient experiences will give us the actions steps behind our intent to serve with excellence. (Video Duration: 19min:06s)
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Lesson 5
Universal Strategies for Improvement
Sometimes the biggest obstacle to improving is knowing where to start. In this very impactful and practical lesson you will be given a set of competencies and tools to support you in your work to improve HCAHPS in your organization. (Video Duration: 16min:54s)
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Lesson 6
Emergency Department Strategies
The emergency department holds one of the most important transitions of care, ED to a unit. This one transition influences a patient’s perceptions in how we are doing in more than one HCAHPS domain. Grow in your knowledge of key drivers that impact your HCAHPS survey. (Video Duration: 6min:24s)
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Lesson 7
Maximizing Internal Coaching with the Experience Guide
Building teams through internal coaches that are focused on creating an “always” culture by providing excellence patient experiences will escalate your successes with each of the HCAHPS survey domains. In this lesson learn about a HCAHPS Experience Guide can be a key resource in developing your internal coaches. 8:32(Video Duration: 8min:32s)
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Lesson 8
Nurse Communication
Discover what weight each question in this domain carries and how it influences each of the other questions. Success in this domain depends upon leadership communication and engagement with bedside care givers. Learn how this domain influences all of the domains in the HCAHPS survey. (Video Duration: 4min:23s)
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Lesson 9
Doctor Communication
This domain in the HCAHPS survey is where your patients rate their experience with all medical staff beginning in the emergency department and their hospital stay. Learn how you can create strategies with physician champions leading the way in impacting patient perceptions. Your HCHAPS Experience Guide is a great source to develop your strategies. (Video Duration: 8min:26s)
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Lesson 10
Responsiveness
Gain tools and resources to create practical strategies to improve your patients’ ratings on the HCAHPS survey. Dive into the four questions patients use to rate on our responsiveness while staying in our hospital. Learn how patient perceptions may differ from our as providers and caregivers. (Video Duration: 5min:19s)
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Lesson 11
Hospital Environment
Using your HCAHPS Experience Guide, discover how leaders and staff can set patient expectations, narrate our work, and use patient rounding to gain real time feedback to make adjustments as needed. Grow in your knowledge of patient’s standard of expectations that guide their survey responses. (Video Duration: 6min:58s)
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Lesson 12
Medication Communication
Deep dive into the two items on the HCAHPS survey effect your patients rating on how well they understand what we are saying when we give a new medication. This domain is critical to quality and patient experience outcomes. Learn ideas, strategies and techniques that will support your teams in excellent medication communication. (Video Duration: 5min:03s)
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Lesson 13
Care Transitions & Discharge Communication
Use your HCAHPS Guide as a support in learning about every question in this HCAHPS domain and what the average ratings in this domain are nationally. Discover the risks of lack of adherence in discharge or transition instructions when leaving the hospital. Learn how to demonstrate the importance of medication communication, medical appointment follow up, and all of the instructions given. (Video Duration: 6min:35s)
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Lesson 14
Overall Rating and Recommendation
Overall ratings reflect a patient’s perceptions while in your care over a multitude of touch points. Move from very good to excellent by using your HCAHPS Experience Guide to boost your organizations performance by an understanding of what specifically influences your patients overall rating. (Video Duration: 4min:28s)
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Lesson 15
Build, Broaden, and Sustain Excellence
Learn the key components to consistency and sustainability to improvement programs in any area- HCAHPS, Quality, Patient Experience, etc. Through a focus on 5 key steps, you can make a clear path to build momentum and sustain gains that maintain success in your organization. (Video Duration: 10min:31s)