Nurses are placed strategically within the healthcare system to understand its nuances and direct strategies at health promotion, disease prevention and progression, and restorative health. Population health improvement includes figuring out where problems occur and where interventions will have significant aggregate impact. Moving on to improving the health of populations, a population can be broadly or narrowly defined based on a number variables, including demographics, disease states, culture, geography or even behavioral choices. For example, we manage the process of transitioning patients to and from places and levels of care, a time when many errors could be made and inefficiencies introduced if there is poor communication and coordination. Given our continuous contact with patients, we have an enormous role in assuring that all the dimensions of the experience of care are addressed in a comprehensive and coordinated manner. In terms of nursing's role in that, nurses represent the largest number of healthcare workers in the U.S. What we're talking about is care that's safe, effective, patient-centered, timely, efficient and equitable. Improving the experience of care means far more than satisfaction. Patrick Robinson: Nurses play key leadership roles independently and as members of an interprofessional team in driving toward the Triple Aim. Question: How do nurses play a role in each aspect of the Triple Aim? Patrick Robinson, PhD, RN, dean of Minneapolis-based Capella University School of Nursing and Health Sciences, reflects on nurses' role in the Triple Aim and how institutions are supporting nurses' ability to impact Triple Aim initiatives. The Triple Aim plays a key role in the lives of healthcare professionals across the country, including those of nurses. More recently, it has been suggested that an additional aim, improving healthcare providers' work lives - making it a quadruple aim - is needed if the model is to produce a transformed healthcare system. The Triple Aim became a fundamental component of healthcare reform under the Affordable Care Act.

This content is sponsored by Capella University. healthcare system performance improvement will come through the simultaneous pursuit of improving the broadly defined experience of care, improving the health of populations and reducing the per capita cost of healthcare. In 2007, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement proposed a theoretical model - the Triple Aim, which collapsed the various goals to an interdependent set of three. In the continuous movement toward higher levels of quality, safety and cost effectiveness, hospitals and health systems strive to meet a number of patient- and systems-related goals. Past Issues - Becker's Clinical Leadership & Infection Control.Current Issue - Becker's Clinical Leadership & Infection Control.Becker's Cardiology + Heart Surgery Podcast.Becker's Ambulatory Surgery Centers Podcast.Becker’s Digital Health + Health IT Podcast.Digital Innovation + Patient Experience and Marketing Virtual Event.Conference Reviewers: Request for More Information.The Future of Dentistry Roundtable October.29th Annual Meeting - The Business & Operations of ASCs.8th Annual Health IT + Digital Health + RCM Conference.20th Annual Spine, Orthopedic & Pain Management-Driven ASC Conference.Clinical Leadership & Infection Control.

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