#86. Essential Elements of a Successful Patient Encounter

Oct 29, 2021

Time pressure in today's healthcare visits is a reality. Increasingly there is more emphasis on value and efficiency in clinical care delivery. Meanwhile changing factors in healthcare delivery with shorter visit times, increasing amounts of required documentation for compliance, and the perceived quality and time spent with your patient and their family have added to the challenges that physicians and healthcare professionals face daily. 

 

Though it may not be possible to have the luxury of more time to conduct thorough clinical care encounters necessary for complex conditions like pain, but some elements, if incorporated in our daily clinical work can most definitely lead to safe, smooth, and efficient healthcare encounters with improved outcomes and increased satisfaction for both patients and healthcare professionals.

 

Join me in this episode to discover these essential elements which will help you shine in the quality of your encounters with your patients.

 

Takeaways in This Episode

• Factors influencing the perceived quality of healthcare delivery
• What's common between a flight and a clinical care visit
• Elements of a successful and high quality, efficient clinical care encounter
• How a healthcare professional can stay on time and influence the  timely delivery of healthcare visit even in a complex system.
• The role engagement  plays in healthcare delivery and outcome and how to achieve that
• How to achieve mindfulness and being present during every clinical encounter
• What does intentional listening look like in a clinical acre visit
• Draw the most useful information out of your patients without interrupting them
• What are transitional phrases in healthcare encounters and what purpose do they serve
• How to reconcile the differences between your patients goals and your goals for them.
• Creating a beautiful wrap up for the clinical encounter and the Lollipop Effect

Links

Other recommended and helpful episodes - 

Episode #62. Metaphors for Better Pediatric Pain Management

Episode #40. Owning your role as a physician leader in today’s healthcare

Episode #82. Chronic Pediatric Pain in 2021: US Pain Foundation Report.

Episode #26. Manage Memory, Manage Pain! with Melanie Noel, PhD

Episode #37. What authenticity in healthcare looks like.