Person Centred Care: The Overall Concept Of Person-Centered Care
Person Centred Care
The overall concept of person-centred care is more than just compassionate care; it’s about providing care and treatment that responds to individual preferences, and treating the patient as a person (Vikki A. Entwistle & Watt, 2013). Person centred-care is aimed to understand the individuals needs, perceptions and motivation in life. This is to provide care adequate to the individuals stage of development and adjust to the daily traumas and stress faced by the individual (Brown. M, 2016). According to the “International Journal of older Person Nursing”, the person centred nursing framework is made up of four aspects which will be discussed below.
The person centred framework’s first aspect is Prerequisites, which mainly …show more content…
It aims to provide a multidisciplinary team, with mixed skill sets, working together to make informed shared decisions around the persons care. In nursing context, nurses (registered and non-registered) will be equally viewed without dominant figures exploiting others, and working together to ensure quality person centred care. Effective staff relationships will help and support the need to provide quality person centred care. It is essential that potential for innovation and risk taking is to be supported by adequate evidence and professional judgement. The physical environment should be a well balanced interior design that reflects well thought through aesthetics and necessary equipment and is easily attainable in emergency situations. There should be adequate air flow and space for ones comfort and security (McCormack, B. …show more content…
Here we focus on the direct results of effective and efficient person-centred care. We focus on whether we, as a team as well as the person (patient), are satisfied with the care provided. We focus on whether the patient has a sense of well being and look at who and what was involved throughout the care process. We assess whether a therapeutic environment was supplied and maintained as well as whether a therapeutic culture was respected. Once outcomes are assessed feedback on strong and weak points should be noted and worked upon to achieve optimal person centred
The overall concept of person-centred care is more than just compassionate care; it’s about providing care and treatment that responds to individual preferences, and treating the patient as a person (Vikki A. Entwistle & Watt, 2013). Person centred-care is aimed to understand the individuals needs, perceptions and motivation in life. This is to provide care adequate to the individuals stage of development and adjust to the daily traumas and stress faced by the individual (Brown. M, 2016). According to the “International Journal of older Person Nursing”, the person centred nursing framework is made up of four aspects which will be discussed below.
The person centred framework’s first aspect is Prerequisites, which mainly …show more content…
It aims to provide a multidisciplinary team, with mixed skill sets, working together to make informed shared decisions around the persons care. In nursing context, nurses (registered and non-registered) will be equally viewed without dominant figures exploiting others, and working together to ensure quality person centred care. Effective staff relationships will help and support the need to provide quality person centred care. It is essential that potential for innovation and risk taking is to be supported by adequate evidence and professional judgement. The physical environment should be a well balanced interior design that reflects well thought through aesthetics and necessary equipment and is easily attainable in emergency situations. There should be adequate air flow and space for ones comfort and security (McCormack, B. …show more content…
Here we focus on the direct results of effective and efficient person-centred care. We focus on whether we, as a team as well as the person (patient), are satisfied with the care provided. We focus on whether the patient has a sense of well being and look at who and what was involved throughout the care process. We assess whether a therapeutic environment was supplied and maintained as well as whether a therapeutic culture was respected. Once outcomes are assessed feedback on strong and weak points should be noted and worked upon to achieve optimal person centred