We asked our patients, “What is the most important thing I can do for you today?” and analyzed the self-identified patient needs. Eleven themes emerged; we used these findings to drive a unit-based project and a hospital-based project, hard-wiring strategies into the infrastructure of Relationship-Centered Care to build relationships between patients/families and staff and to establish a healing and caring environment.
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