{"id":3409,"date":"2014-08-14T16:57:43","date_gmt":"2014-08-14T23:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wapatientsafety.org\/?p=3409"},"modified":"2019-08-02T22:29:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-02T22:29:12","slug":"informed-decision-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/wpsc\/2014\/08\/14\/informed-decision-making\/","title":{"rendered":"Informed Decision-making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Informed decision-making is one of the best ways we can be engaged patients and advocates, and this is especially true when it comes to major decisions such as considering a move to a long-term care facility for yourself or a loved one. Among other helpful resources, the experts at WPSC member organization Washington Health Care Association have put together a guide to use in choosing a skilled nursing facility. This guide includes questions to ask and things to look for that can provide an indication of a given facility&#8217;s focus on quality and patient safety. <a title=\"learn more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whca.org\/directory\/choosing-a-skilled-nursing-facility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Visit their site<\/a> to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Informed decision-making is one of the best ways we can be engaged patients and advocates, and this is especially true when it comes to major decisions such as considering a move to a long-term care facility for yourself or a loved one. Among other helpful resources, the experts at   &#8230; <a href=\"\/informed-decision-making\">Read More.<\/a>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-safety-bytes","category-the-safety-blog"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/wpsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/wpsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/wpsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/wpsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/wpsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3409"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/wpsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6728,"href":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/wpsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3409\/revisions\/6728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/wpsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/wpsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/wpsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.qualityhealth.org\/wpsc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}