INTRODUCTION OF NURSING
1.2 Patient centred Care
1 HOUR
JULIE JAMES ABDULLAH
At the end of the training session the
Be
students will be able to: -
State the definition of patient and patient
State centered care
Learning
Outcomes
Describe the principles of patient centered
Describe
care.
Explain the importance of patient centered
Explain
care..
Content 1. Definition of
• Patient
Outline
• Patient centered care
2. Picker’s 8 principles of patient centered
care
• Respect for patients, preferences and
expressed need
• Coordination and integration of care
Content • Information and education
• Physical comfort
Outline • Emotional support & alleviation of fear &
anxiety
• Involvement of family & friends
• Continuity & transition
• Access to care
3. The importance of patient centered care
• Improve patient satisfaction
• Encourage patient to lead healthier lifestyle
• Patient to be more involved in decision
Content about their health care
Outline • Impact on patient’s health outcomes &
maintenance
• Reduce the patient need of healthcare
services
• Improve confidence & satisfaction of
healthcare professionals
Definition
Patient
Patient centered care
Patient
• A patient is someone who is waiting for or receiving medical treatment and care.
(Taber’s Medical Dictionary).
• According to the Kamus Dewan, the word patient comes from the Latin word meaning to
suffer or to endure.
Patient
• Patient also comes from the word patience
The old tradition
• The patient is a passive person, patiently receiving whatever
treatment or care he or she receives from the nurse.
Patient
Today is a patient
• attitude and feeling more active
• want more and also want to know more and they realize their
rights.
• more knowledge of their health, their disease
• have the right to take care of their health.
Patient Centered Care
The IOM (Institute of Medicine) defines patient-centered care as:
“Providing care that is respectful of, and responsive to, individual
patient preferences, needs and values, and ensuring that patient
values guide all clinical decisions.”
Picker’s 8
principles of
patient
centered care
Involve patients in decision-
making, recognizing they are
a. Respect for
patients, individuals with their own
unique values and preferences.
preferences
and
expressed Treat patients with dignity,
respect and sensitivity to
need
his/her cultural values and
autonomy.
During focus groups, patients expressed feeling vulnerable
and powerless in the face of illness. Proper coordination of
care can alleviate those feelings.
Patients identified three areas in which care coordination
can reduce feelings of vulnerability:
b. Coordination
and
Coordination of clinical care
integration
of care
Coordination of ancillary and support services
Coordination of front-line patient care
In interviews, patients expressed their worries that they
were not being completely informed about their condition
or prognosis.
To counter this fear, hospitals can focus on three kinds of
communication:
c. Information
and Information on clinical status, progress and prognosis
education
Information on processes of care
Information to facilitate autonomy, self-care and health
promotion
The level of physical comfort patients report
has a significant impact on their experience.
Three areas were reported as particularly
important to patients:
d. Physical
Pain management
comfort
Assistance with activities and daily living
needs
Hospital surroundings and environment
Fear and anxiety associated with illness can
be as debilitating as the physical effects.
e. Emotional Caregivers should pay particular attention
to:
support &
alleviation Anxiety over physical status, treatment and
prognosis
of fear &
Anxiety over the impact of the illness on
anxiety themselves and family
Anxiety over the financial impact of illness
This principle addresses the role of family and
friends in the patient experience.
Family dimensions of patient-centered care were
identified as follows:
f. Involvement Providing accommodations for family and friends
of family &
friends Involving family and close friends in decision making
Supporting family members as caregivers
Recognizing the needs of family and friends
Patients expressed concern about their
ability to care for themselves after
discharge.
g. Continuity Meeting patient needs in this area
requires the following:
&
transition • Understandable, detailed information regarding
medications, physical limitations, dietary needs,
etc.
• Coordinate and plan ongoing treatment and
services after discharge
• Provide information regarding access to clinical,
social, physical and financial support on a
continuing basis.
Patients need to know they can access care
when it is needed.
Focusing mainly on ambulatory care, the
following areas were of importance to the
8. Access to patient:
care • Access to the location of hospitals, clinics and physician
offices
• Availability of transportation
• Ease of scheduling appointments
• Availability of appointments when needed
• Accessibility to specialists or specialty services when a
referral is made
• Clear instructions provided on when and how to get
referrals.
The Importance Of
Patient Centered Care
a. Improve patient satisfaction
Patients receiving this
kind of care are happier, It improves quality of
more satisfied, heal life.
more quickly, are in less
pain and stay healthier.
b. Encourage patient to lead healthier lifestyle
Research conducted showed:
• frequent healthcare visits create an opportunity for healthcare
providers to encourage adoption and maintenance of healthy
diet and physical activity behaviors.
• This healthcare visit is one of the activities in patient centered
care
c. Patient to be more involved in decision
about their health care
• Engaged patients are more likely to receive recommended screenings,
follow treatment guidelines, and lead a healthy lifestyle.
• engaged patients are ones that:
✓Understand their conditions
✓Understand the treatment and what it will do for them
✓Believe the treatment will make a difference in their lives.
d. Impact on patient’s health outcomes &
maintenance
• When a patient trusts that a treatment will be effective, there's a
much higher chance it will work for them and produce the
desired results.
e. Reduce the patient need of healthcare
services
• As the patient & family consistency engaged with care of own
health, the need of healthcare services will be reduce.
f. Improve confidence & satisfaction of
healthcare professionals
A more efficient system Improved retention
decreases employee
burnout, improves staff contributes to high-quality
relationships, and staff, less training costs and
enhances patient-caretaker decreased expenses due to
inefficient practices.
interactions.
Reading article
• https://bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s1291
3-018-3818-y
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5893434/
• https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6060529/