Engaging Nurses as Leaders in Patient Experience
Published April 4, 2017
Erin Fairchild, Patient Experience Coordinator III at Mayo Clinic, discusses the role of nurses in experience excellence as one of the most valuable and influential positions and shares ways to continually engage nurses as leaders in patient experience.
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