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The 5:1 Feedback ratio is an effective Trusted Care tool aimed at ensuring respectful teamwork among healthcare providers, and plays a key role in ensuring patient safety. (U.S. Air Force graphic by Josh Mahler) 5:1 feedback improves medical care
Criticism can be a bitter but necessary pill to swallow for medical Airmen. Because patient safety is top priority, Air Force medical groups use a 5:1 feedback ratio. The 5:1 feedback ratio is an important Trusted Care tool, emphasizing respectful teamwork among healthcare providers.
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2018
Senior Airman Taylor Scherff, 55th Medical Group Pediatric Clinic medical technician, tries to make three-month-old Isabelle Kittel smile in the Ehrling Bergquist Clinic at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb., Sept. 12, 2017. Scherff caught abnormalities in Kittle when she began taking her vital signs which led to the infant being taken to a catheterization laboratory and then into an emergency heart surgery. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Rachelle Blake) Trusted Care Heroes are all of us
Trusted care. Two words, that when spoken could have a meaning vastly different from one person to another.
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2018
Lt. Col Candy Wilson, right, 779th Medical Group nurse practitioner, consults a human anatomy chart to determine where to place a Calmare electrode for treating Carol Celeste Gray, a patient at Joint Base Andrews, Md., May 30, 2017. Gray suffers from chronic regional pain syndrome on the left side of her body that developed after being treated for a broken elbow. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Joe Yanik) Nerve Scrambler Therapy lessens pain for warfighters, TRICARE patients
At first glance, Nerve Scrambler Therapy is a name that some might confuse with an experimental, avant-garde rock band from the 1970s. Think The Velvet Underground, Electric Light Orchestra or Grand Funk Railroad. In reality, NST is one of the 79th Medical Wing’s most cutting edge methods, or modalities, for managing chronic and debilitative nerve pain that impacts warfighters’ job performance and long-term quality of life.
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2017
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