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of the following discussion question options to answer in your initial post. Please review the Discussion Rubric for detailed requirements of your posts. Follow the Discussion Rubric Guidelines. Support your initial response post with a full-text, peer-reviewed nursing journal article published within the last five years. Please watch this video and answer the questions below: 1. Have you or a loved one ever been in the hospital because of an injury or an illness? Even as an RN, did you or your loved one understand everything the clinicians said to you? If not, what hindered your understanding and what could have helped you in that situation? 2. How did Melba, Luis, and Julie all contribute to a better patient experience for Gilbert? 3. How can you contribute to a better experience for your patients? 4. Gilbert believes Melba, Luis, and Julie represent what the face of health care should look like. What do you want your health care system to look like? How is your ideal different than what you typically see? 5. Like Gilbert, are you passionate about the work you do? Why or why not? Please watch this video and answer the questions below: 1. Dr. Bhavan said this program was developed out of the hospital’s need for more beds. Do you think it benefits the patients, too? How? 2. What was your reac

tion to hearing that patients learned to hang IV fluids on a coat hanger? Do you think that creative, inexpensive solutions such as this should be used more often in health care? Why or why not? 3. Why do you think that patients who treated themselves at home had a lower readmission rate than patients treated in the hospital? 4. Dr. Bhavan said that the program was developed for patients who were uninsured or underinsured. Do you think this program should be offered to all patients, regardless of their insurance status? Why or why not? 5. How is this story an example of person- and family-centered care? Please watch this video and answer the questions below: 1. Which components of the system – more specifically, which participants and technologies – played a role in helping the patient get better? 2. Which care provider do you think played the most important role in the positive patient outcome? Please explain. Did they all contribute equally? Why or why not? 3. How was the mother using improvement science to help control her son’s asthma? Why was that important to the story? 4. According to Dr. Berwick, what would have happened to the boy if the care had been uncoordinated? Do you agree? Why or why not? 5. Have you ever witnessed a similar example of excellent coordinated care? What happened?