Employee rounding is a powerful tool to form and maintain relationships in the workplace between leaders and their frontline staff. Progressive, participatory leaders began rounding or “checking in” with their employees long before the relationship between patient satisfaction and employee satisfaction was validated by data and research.

As  new hospitals launch the Nobl Rounding platform we often encounter questions about the role of charge nurses in hourly patient rounding as well as leader rounding on patients. Here are some different ways to utilize charge nurses, depending on the role they fill within your organization.  

Leader rounding allows staff to proactively connect with patients and families. It fosters unit communication and reinforces a commitment to family-centered care and excellence in patient experience. Along with identifying opportunities for improvement, leader rounding also provides a way to recognize individual staff members who receive positive patient feedback.

The emergency department often is a patient’s first encounter with a hospital. This poses a unique opportunity for departments to get the patient’s experience off to the right start.

As leaders of these departments, we must never forget that small things do matter and that a patient’s experience is the sum of all their experiences and interactions. In this article, we are going to share two different strategies to understand the voice of your patients and employees that visit and work in your emergency department.

If you are new to Leader or Employee rounding, or if you just want to make sure that you are utilizing your programs to the fullest extent, we have a webinar that can help you. Nobl is excited about being able to share some of our webinars on the ways our partners are making the most of their rounding programs. These webinars we have had the pleasure of hosting recently and want to make sure that you didn't miss information that could help your organization.

June 10, 2019 – Dedicated to improving the patient experience for the patients and families at the hospitals and clinics they serve, Nobl recently joined The Beryl Institute community as an organizational member and corporate sponsor.

The Beryl Institute serves as a resource for shared information and proven patient experience practices, a dynamic incubator of leading research and new ideas and an interactive connector of leaders and practitioners.