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| Improving
Care and The Bottom Line |
The challenges of attracting and retaining
staff, providing compassionate, high quality, effective and
safe care in environments of limited and shrinking resources
can feel insurmountable. Relationship-Based Care (RBC) highlights
the most direct routes to achieve world class care and service
to patients and families in your organization.
Organizations who have implemented RBC see an
increase in patient satisfaction and loyalty,
an increase in staff and physician satisfaction
and a more resource conscious and efficient
work environment.
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| The Relationship-Based Care
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The RBC model provides a conceptual framework with a vision
for care and underlying values and principles, a practical
infrastructure for putting it into action, the education and
leadership necessary to make it happen and ways to measure
evidence of success.
Care takes place in a Caring and Healing Environment with
the Patient and Family at the center. Six dimensions are critical
for successful transformation:
The Elements of the Relationship-Based Care model are described
in detail in Relationship-Based
Care: A Model for Transforming Practice, edited by
Mary Koloroutis and published by Creative Health Care Management.
Order
your copy of Relationship-Based Care: A Model for Transforming
Practice now.
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| Implementation |
Implementation
of Relationship-Based Care can occur in multiple
ways:
- Leadership "Think Day" or Organizational Strategic
Planning - Learn how to implement RBC and explore
how it will impact patient care and staff in the organization
(One day).
- Appreciative Inquiry Organizational Assessment
- Identify organizational strengths and desired outcomes
(One to two days)
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- Design Day - Design an RBC implementation
customized for your organization and the infrastructure
needed to support it (One Day).
- Relationship-Based Care: Passion in Practice
- This workshop can be one hour or
all-day, and can be tailored to meet your particular organizational
needs.
- Education Session - Learn how Relationship-Based Care works, on individual units as well as system
wide. Find out what outcomes can be expected (Half day or
one day)
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- Consultation and Education for Leaders and Staff
- Lead your organization through a complete RBC initiative
including planning, implementation and continuous improvement
phases (in partnership with a Creative Health Care Management
consultant.
The University of California, Davis Health System used Relationship-Based
Care to bring their nursing care to a new level. Read their
success story here.
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