Patient Centred Care Role

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
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
Furthermore, the team and its involved members may be influenced by cultural, organisational and traditional norms present in health care environments. For this reason it is crucial that health professionals develop a greater understanding of respect, and how specific roles and responsibilities can be increased to support achievement of Emily’s overall wellbeing.
Working in multidisciplinary settings where the client’s goals are fundamental also allows the team members to safely trial the limits of traditional roles and accountabilities to encompass the wants of the client. Incorporating Emily and family into the team embodies a certain challenge that involves careful planning. Emily and her family are distinctive members of the team in numerous ways. Firstly, Emily and her family do not have any formal training within health care. Therefore their input regarding care issues helps formulate a detailed care plan surrounding their concerns and fears with Emily. Secondly, educating and involving Emily’s family as much as possible enforces the idea that the care they provide to Emily is just as important as actions carried out by other health professionals. Finally, just as health professionals must acclimate to numerous patients they meet, so must the clients learn to acclimate