A Donna Hill Howes, RN , Family Medicine, answered. Occupational therapy for osteoarthritis is valuable for teaching you ways to protect your joints as you go about your normal everyday activities, such as getting up from a chair or lifting a bag of groceries.
As health care provider organizations search for ways to improve care outcomes while. simultaneously lowering costs, the concept of patient and family engagement has become a. priority. Patient and family engagement is defined as: There are a number of different patient and family engagement strategies.
Hence the campaign launched by the nonprofit Institute of Patient- and Family-Centered Care, called Better Together, to persuade hospitals to eliminate restrictive visiting hours and permit families, broadly defined, to remain with loved ones throughout their stays, even in intensive care units.