Patients and healthcare professionals would agree that nursing care is a fundamental for achieving optimistic goals and improving patient satisfaction. Whether it being an acute setting of maintaining care plans with patients, nurses play an important role within a multidisciplinary team to help achieve better patient outcomes.
Principles
The key to patient centred care is not only to build “expert” patients, but to improve common ground with them for an integrated management plan. The aim is to develop a partnership with Emily and her family, whereby allowing them to express their separate issues, frustrations and fears with having a chronic disease. Emily will require ongoing support, while encouraging her to develop her own mechanisms and strategies coping with her disorders. Giving her the autonomy within the patient and health professional interaction to convey her feelings will make her feel comfortable with the decision making leading to optimising her care plan.
Patient autonomy can sometimes be regarded as a double edged sword. Sometimes, an empowered and informed patient may adopt to take risks regarding there health or not to adhere to their management recommendations. An informed patient or patient’s parents may sometimes frustrate the health professional. However, patient centred partnerships are still justified and will …show more content…
As for secondary prevention Emily’s family should take into account modifying her environment to suit her current condition of mobility and informing them of the importance of regular check-ups. Ultimately patient centred care has to be at the level of tertiary prevention, to reduce a decline in health among those who already have chronic and complex
Principles
The key to patient centred care is not only to build “expert” patients, but to improve common ground with them for an integrated management plan. The aim is to develop a partnership with Emily and her family, whereby allowing them to express their separate issues, frustrations and fears with having a chronic disease. Emily will require ongoing support, while encouraging her to develop her own mechanisms and strategies coping with her disorders. Giving her the autonomy within the patient and health professional interaction to convey her feelings will make her feel comfortable with the decision making leading to optimising her care plan.
Patient autonomy can sometimes be regarded as a double edged sword. Sometimes, an empowered and informed patient may adopt to take risks regarding there health or not to adhere to their management recommendations. An informed patient or patient’s parents may sometimes frustrate the health professional. However, patient centred partnerships are still justified and will …show more content…
As for secondary prevention Emily’s family should take into account modifying her environment to suit her current condition of mobility and informing them of the importance of regular check-ups. Ultimately patient centred care has to be at the level of tertiary prevention, to reduce a decline in health among those who already have chronic and complex