Simple Tips To Developing A Productive Clinician Patient Relationship

Do you sometimes feel apprehensive about an upcoming doctor's appointment, wondering, "What should I say? How should I act? How can I get my point across to my doctor? Should I speak more or allow the doctor to do more or all of the talking? Will I make a connection with the doctor?" If you are a clinician, you may wonder, "Who is this new patient? "Will the patient be receptive to clinical suggestions? "Will the patient be accepting or judgmental?" This guidebook highlights several patient personalities and the effects of such personalities on the formation of productive clinician-patient relationships. It provides both patients and clinicians with the needed tools for effective communication that results in meaningful and rewarding clinician-patient relationships. This helpful text is based upon the author's clinical experiences in diverse health care settings and interactions with patients and other clinicians during the past twenty-five years. Along with appropriate illustrations, Simple Tips to Developing a Productive Clinician-Patient Relationship includes clinician-patient scenarios with sample dialogues and tips for both clinicians and patients to help develop and maintain a successful clinician-patient relationship.

Do you sometimes feel apprehensive about an upcoming doctors appointment, wondering, What should I say? How should I act? How can I get my point across to my doctor? Should I speak more or allow the doctor to do more or all of the talking? Will I make a connection with the doctor? If you are a clinician, you may wonder, Who is this new patient? Will the patient be receptive to clinical suggestions? Will the patient be accepting or judgmental? This guidebook highlights several patient personalities and the effects of such personalities on the formation of productive clinician-patient relationships. It provides both patients and clinicians with the needed tools for effective communication that results in meaningful and rewarding clinician-patient relationships. This helpful text is based upon the authors clinical experiences in diverse health care settings and interactions with patients and other clinicians during the past twenty-five years. Along with appropriate illustrations, Simple Tips to Developing a Productive Clinician-Patient Relationship includes clinician-patient scenarios with sample dialogues and tips for both clinicians and patients to help develop and maintain a successful clinician-patient relationship.

Do you sometimes feel apprehensive about an upcoming doctor's appointment, wondering, "What should I say? How should I act? How can I get my point across to my doctor? Should I speak more or allow the doctor to do more or all of the talking? Will I make a connection with the doctor?" If you are a clinician, you may wonder, "Who is this new patient? "Will the patient be receptive to clinical suggestions? "Will the patient be accepting or judgmental?" This guidebook highlights several patient personalities and the effects of such personalities on the formation of productive clinician-patient relationships. It provides both patients and clinicians with the needed tools for effective communication that results in meaningful and rewarding clinician-patient relationships.This helpful text is based upon the author's clinical experiences in diverse health care settings and interactions with patients and other clinicians during the past twenty-five years. Along with appropriate illustrations, Simple Tips to Developing a Productive Clinician-Patient Relationship includes clinician-patient scenarios with sample dialogues and tips for both clinicians and patients to help develop and maintain a successful clinician-patient relationship.REVIEWSAfter meeting Ms. Aghanya myself as a patient, I knew that she had a special gift for communicating with her patients. As she explains in her book, she not only has years of first-hand experience as a practitioner but learned as a patient as well, just how important proper communication and relationship building can be.As I read her book, I learned a great deal about how I can better my relationship with my providers, as well as how I, as a hospital chaplain, can better interact with the patients who look to me as one of the members of their team of care providers. I strongly urge all healthcare providers as well as those who have found it difficult to develop trusting relationships with their providers to read this book.= James M DakisThis is a very informative book to read for both clinicians in practice and patients who may have many concerns about seeing a healthcare provider for the first time. Mrs. Aghanya has shown examples of many patients that clinicians encounter on a daily basis. With funny cartoon illustrations throughout the chapters to describe different patient personalities I thought that she did a very good job of giving her own personal examples and giving tips on how to handle these patients. I especially liked reading about an Opinionated Patient she had seen with an elevated blood pressure who was on Coumadin. This clinical scenario is very common in practice and the tip she used on how to handle this type of patient was very helpful.I also think that this book would be very helpful for nursing/nurse practitioner students. It could be used as part of the curriculum for undergraduate/graduate school and as a tool for teachers to encourage students to give their own examples of patients that they will or have encountered.I really enjoyed reading Mrs. Aghanya's book and I could relate to many of the scenarios she discussed as a clinician. This is a must read for all clinicians!= Cynthia Setoodeh RN, MSN, APN-C

The Institute of Medicine study Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001) recommended that an interdisciplinary summit be held to further reform of health professions education in order to enhance quality and patient safety. Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality is the follow up to that summit, held in June 2002, where 150 participants across disciplines and occupations developed ideas about how to integrate a core set of competencies into health professions education. These core competencies include patient-centered care, interdisciplinary teams, evidence-based practice, quality improvement, and informatics. This book recommends a mix of approaches to health education improvement, including those related to oversight processes, the training environment, research, public reporting, and leadership. Educators, administrators, and health professionals can use this book to help achieve an approach to education that better prepares clinicians to meet both the needs of patients and the requirements of a changing health care system.

This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.

For patients and their loved ones, no care decisions are more profound than those made near the end of life. Unfortunately, the experience of dying in the United States is often characterized by fragmented care, inadequate treatment of distressing symptoms, frequent transitions among care settings, and enormous care responsibilities for families. According to this report, the current health care system of rendering more intensive services than are necessary and desired by patients, and the lack of coordination among programs increases risks to patients and creates avoidable burdens on them and their families. Dying in America is a study of the current state of health care for persons of all ages who are nearing the end of life. Death is not a strictly medical event. Ideally, health care for those nearing the end of life harmonizes with social, psychological, and spiritual support. All people with advanced illnesses who may be approaching the end of life are entitled to access to high-quality, compassionate, evidence-based care, consistent with their wishes. Dying in America evaluates strategies to integrate care into a person- and family-centered, team-based framework, and makes recommendations to create a system that coordinates care and supports and respects the choices of patients and their families. The findings and recommendations of this report will address the needs of patients and their families and assist policy makers, clinicians and their educational and credentialing bodies, leaders of health care delivery and financing organizations, researchers, public and private funders, religious and community leaders, advocates of better care, journalists, and the public to provide the best care possible for people nearing the end of life.

Patient-centered, high-quality health care relies on the well-being, health, and safety of health care clinicians. However, alarmingly high rates of clinician burnout in the United States are detrimental to the quality of care being provided, harmful to individuals in the workforce, and costly. It is important to take a systemic approach to address burnout that focuses on the structure, organization, and culture of health care. Taking Action Against Clinician Burnout: A Systems Approach to Professional Well-Being builds upon two groundbreaking reports from the past twenty years, To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century, which both called attention to the issues around patient safety and quality of care. This report explores the extent, consequences, and contributing factors of clinician burnout and provides a framework for a systems approach to clinician burnout and professional well-being, a research agenda to advance clinician well-being, and recommendations for the field.

"Nurses play a vital role in improving the safety and quality of patient car -- not only in the hospital or ambulatory treatment facility, but also of community-based care and the care performed by family members. Nurses need know what proven techniques and interventions they can use to enhance patient outcomes. To address this need, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), with additional funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has prepared this comprehensive, 1,400-page, handbook for nurses on patient safety and quality -- Patient Safety and Quality: An Evidence-Based Handbook for Nurses. (AHRQ Publication No. 08-0043)." - online AHRQ blurb, http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/nurseshdbk/