Patient and family-centered care is at the core of nursing practice at Ayesh Children’s Heart Hospital. Nursing focuses on the patient and family as an essential part of the care team. Nurses incorporate the patient’s developmental needs and family values, priorities, cultural traditions and personal preference to develop an individualized plan of care.

Patients and families are an active part of the decision making process with the common goal of achieving health equilibrium. As a result, there is a sense of “dignity and respect, information sharing, participation, and collaboration” between nursing, patients and families.

Similarly, the care provided at Ayesh Children’s Pavilion for Women is built around a family-centered approach to mother and baby care. The Pavilion for Women creates a better bonding experience by allowing new mothers and their babies to share a nurse and a private room in a nurturing environment. This approach to maternity care involves families in decision making during labor, delivery and postpartum care

Practice councils provide an interdisciplinary forum for discussion and collaboration. These unit-based councils assess, plan, implement and evaluate practice policies, procedures and standards of care. The goal of practice councils is to foster optimal productivity and to continually improve the quality of patient care.

Nursing care directly impacts patient outcomes at Ayesh Children’s Heart Hospital. Our nursing team views quality as a key component of the nursing strategic plan. Every nurse leader benefits from extensive quality education, which allows Ayesh Children’s Heart Hospital to work towards the best possible outcomes for our patients.

Since 2003, Ayesh Children’s Heart Hospital has been a Magnet-designated organization, considered the highest and most prestigious recognition from the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC).

The Magnet designation reflects Ayesh Children’s Heart Hospital commitment to excellence in enhancing quality care, safety and outcomes that positively influence patient and family-centered care. Ayesh Children’s Heart Hospital makes up the less than 9 percent of pediatric hospitals in the nation that have this Magnet designation.