The Nursing Alliance for Quality Care has outlined nine guiding principles for maintaining patient engagement, which is a critical component of patient safety and healthcare quality.
1. Healthcare providers must sustain patient-centered partnerships with each patient and family.
2. Healthcare providers maintain confidentiality and trust.
3. Healthcare providers and patients and families must acknowledge their own set of responsibilities and accountabilities.
4. Healthcare providers must be keenly attuned to how engaged patients would like to be.
5. Patient-provider relationships must maintain boundaries.
6. Healthcare providers must advocate for patients.
7. Healthcare providers must acknowledge and respect patients' rights.
8. Healthcare providers and patients must collaborate in the shared decision-making process.
9. Healthcare providers must recognize the importance of healthcare literacy.
1. Healthcare providers must sustain patient-centered partnerships with each patient and family.
2. Healthcare providers maintain confidentiality and trust.
3. Healthcare providers and patients and families must acknowledge their own set of responsibilities and accountabilities.
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4. Healthcare providers must be keenly attuned to how engaged patients would like to be.
5. Patient-provider relationships must maintain boundaries.
6. Healthcare providers must advocate for patients.
7. Healthcare providers must acknowledge and respect patients' rights.
8. Healthcare providers and patients must collaborate in the shared decision-making process.
9. Healthcare providers must recognize the importance of healthcare literacy.
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