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<P>Welcome to Being with Patients.</P>
<P>Being with Patients empowers health care professionals to understand what it really means to be a patient. <br>
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It demonstrates how staff behaviours and attitudes, however subtle, can positively or negatively influence the patient experience. Furthermore, it equips staff with a renewed emotional connection to the people who are patients and relatives, and the confidence and skills to change practice.</P>
<p align="left">The skill of Being with Patients is fundamental to the NHS in achieving excellence. This commitment is key to the development of practice. But when do we practice being with patients?</p>
<p align="left">Customer Care, Patient Experience, Public Involvement, Essence of Care, Simulated Patients, Dramatisation, Interpersonal skills, Communication, Choice, Work Based Learning, Feedback, Time management, Respect and Dignity, Improving quality of care, Evaluation Research, Patient Stories, Nurses' role, Patient Satisfaction, Complaints, Patient Centred, Job satisfaction, Patient Actors, Connecting with patients, Nurse-patient relations.</p>
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