The “patient experience” has become a primary and leading excellence benchmark for the performance a best-in-class healthcare organization delivers on quality, safety and service.
The patient experience is a journey that can take a healthcare organization to the top of the patient care league. However, If not efficient, it can also have an adverse impact on an organization’s reputation and sustainability.
This course provides participants with the knowledge and skills to design and implement a patient experience-based framework to improve the overall performance of their organization.
Participants will learn how to build high performing and engaged healthcare teams, establish and sustain effective clinical relationships, as well as implement strategies and tools to support patient-centered care.
Course Methodology
This course will be highly interactive and include group discussions, case studies and syndicate work. It will include practical exercises that will allow all participants to use the knowledge they gained to implement a patient experience-based framework in their healthcare organization
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
Attract and engage customer-focused employees who are passionate about providing the best and most compassionate, yet efficient, care to the patient
Establish and sustain effective clinical relationships by leveraging key internal and external communication strategies
Build a coaching culture that supports consistent exceptional care and service
Identify and address the differences in patients’ values, preferences and expressed needs
Design a patient experience framework that better meets and exceeds the patient’s needs
Target Audience
This course is beneficial for healthcare clinical and non-clinical staff, including healthcare line managers, heads of department and operational executives. Vendors involved in direct and indirect support services will also benefit from the course.
Target Competencies
Applying communication skills
Demonstrating Coaching skills
Improving employee and patient engagement
Implementing service excellence
Patient experience design
Course Outline
Building effective clinical relationships
The clinical value system
The impact of organizational culture on working relationships
The impact of clinical relationships on the patient experience
Clinical relationships assessment
Roadblocks in clinical relationships
Opportunities in clinical relationships
The key role of communication
Key aspects of interpersonal communication skills
Communication and interpersonal relationship styles:
Choice of words
Tone of voice
Eye contact
Body language and gestures
Proper titles
Techniques to communicate empathy and compassion
Communication methods to enhance patient experience
Cultural diversity in patient-centered care
Basic concepts of cultural competence
Knowing your patients’ demographics
Practitioners and patients’ approach to
Health
Illness
Healthcare
Differences in patients’ values, preferences and expressed needs
Medical decision-making and its impact on the patient/family/community
Attracting and engaging customer-focused employees
Attributes and benefits of an engaged workforce
Innovative techniques to hire a patient-centered workforce
Strategies for recognizing employee commitment to patient experience
Fostering employee engagement
Creating a coaching culture
Core coaching concepts in healthcare
The coaching process
Adopting a coaching culture through leaders and influencers
The impact of coaching on the quality of care and services
Other leadership techniques
Designing the patient experience
Concepts of experience-based design
Gathering experiences from patients, families and staff
Observations
Interviews
Identifying strengths and gaps
The experience-based design framework
Managing and delivering an improved patient experience