Patient-centered care revolves completely around the patient’s comfort, preferences, and values. “Patient-centered care (PCC) is recognized as a measure of the quality of health care” (Robinson, Callister, Berry, & Dearing, 2008, p. 600). As a nurse, this means before you make any clinical decisions, you should take the patient’s feelings and preferences into consideration and make sure the decisions you are making provide the best possible care to them. The nurse’s sole focus should be to make the patient feel better and make things easier for them. The relationship you share with your patient strengthens your ability to provide patient-centered care to them. If you let your patient feel neglected or express no empathy or concern for their
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My father has been hospitalized multiple times and he’s a very impatient and arrogant man. There have been situations where nurses begin ignoring my father and his needs due to his behavior, which lead him to no longer wanting to communicate with them or allow them to help him. This is an example of patient-centered care not being delivered because they neglected how he felt and did not provide the best care for him. If they had communicated more calmly to him that their goal is to make him feel better, he would have calmed down, felt more comfortable with them, and been able to receive patient-centered …show more content…
It allows your patient to receive the best care possible because you are giving them care according to what they want or how they feel and that is your goal as a nurse; to allow your patient to feel better in all aspects. In order to make sure that I provide my patient the best possible care, I will make sure that I always consult how they feel about any decisions I make regarding the care I give them. As mentioned before, nurse-patient relationship plays a major role in giving patient-centered care. So my goal is to establish a trustworthy relationship with my patient so they can feel more comfortable with me and allow me to help provide better care for them. This means that I should communicate well with my patients and set a foundation for a strong and trustworthy relationship. I would do so by watching for verbal and nonverbal signs, listening carefully, and showing that I am genuinely concerned about them. “Provider styles that are based on using open-ended questions, paying attention to patient concerns, and allowing patients the time to express themselves are considered patient-centered” (Robinson et al., 2008, p. 604). That also means being understanding and having a positive attitude towards the patient regardless of how the patient is acting or behaving. I would ensure that I give patient-centered care to my patient by
My father has been hospitalized multiple times and he’s a very impatient and arrogant man. There have been situations where nurses begin ignoring my father and his needs due to his behavior, which lead him to no longer wanting to communicate with them or allow them to help him. This is an example of patient-centered care not being delivered because they neglected how he felt and did not provide the best care for him. If they had communicated more calmly to him that their goal is to make him feel better, he would have calmed down, felt more comfortable with them, and been able to receive patient-centered …show more content…
It allows your patient to receive the best care possible because you are giving them care according to what they want or how they feel and that is your goal as a nurse; to allow your patient to feel better in all aspects. In order to make sure that I provide my patient the best possible care, I will make sure that I always consult how they feel about any decisions I make regarding the care I give them. As mentioned before, nurse-patient relationship plays a major role in giving patient-centered care. So my goal is to establish a trustworthy relationship with my patient so they can feel more comfortable with me and allow me to help provide better care for them. This means that I should communicate well with my patients and set a foundation for a strong and trustworthy relationship. I would do so by watching for verbal and nonverbal signs, listening carefully, and showing that I am genuinely concerned about them. “Provider styles that are based on using open-ended questions, paying attention to patient concerns, and allowing patients the time to express themselves are considered patient-centered” (Robinson et al., 2008, p. 604). That also means being understanding and having a positive attitude towards the patient regardless of how the patient is acting or behaving. I would ensure that I give patient-centered care to my patient by