Person Centered Care

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Person cantered care
Introduction
Person centered care is the form of nursing care approach where nurses focus on holistic
approach to the patient rather than focusing on diagnosis and the symptoms being experienced by
the patient. It also seeks to ensure that the patient needs and choices are regarded and respected.
Draper and Tetley in 2013 defined person centered care as a nursing approach that focus on the
personal needs, wants, desires and goals of the patient (Buetow 2016). In other words, this
should form the basis for care to the patient. This also implies that the healthcare professionals
should overlook their priorities at the expense of the patient’s choices.
Discussion
Person centered care is governed by different principles. Respect for patients is the first principle
of person centered care. Respect is defined as a feeling towards an individual elicited by their
situation or abilities. In person centered care, the individual in question is the patient. In the
nursing profession, there are certain ethics or principles that nurses ought to stick to. One of the
ethical principle is autonomy (Coulourides Kogan, Wilber, & Mosqueda 2015). This implies that
in patient centered care, the self-rules applies. The autonomy of the patients should be respected
at all costs. The nurse is therefore supposed to respect any decision made by the patient
regarding their own lives. If for example the patient feels that a certain nursing intervention is
not conducive for him, then the nurse has the obligation to terminate it. The principle of respect
in person centered care is more or less the same as respect for human dignity whereby nurses
have no moral capacity to interfere with decisions made by patients be it adults or children
(Dewi, Evans, Bradley, & Ullrich 2013). The nurse should therefore be keen to identify the

needs or desires of the patient receiving person centered care and stick to his/her personal
wishes. By so doing, the nurse will be utilizing the principle of respect.
Coordination and integration of care is another principle of person centered care. In person
centered care, coordination and integration of care is defined as the deliberate efforts to organize
patient care activities and sharing information among all individuals involved in patient care so
as to attain safe and effective care (Fagerström 2017). What this principle means is that patient
needs should be known in advance and communicated to the right people such as family
members and healthcare providers. It is this information that forms the basis of providing safe
and effective care .An example of the principle of coordination and integration in action is where
nurses interrogates the patients on what should be done. The nurse can also coordinate with a
family member who might be the mother, brother or father to the patient in providing care. The
objective of this principle is to attain patient needs in providing high quality and high value care.
Recent studies indicate two ways in which coordinated care can be achieved as either through
using specific care coordination activities or using diverse approaches that can bolster health care
delivery. Examples of care coordination initiatives proposed in the studies include assessing
patients’ needs and goals and linking to community resources. Broad care coordination activities
on the other hand include care management and teamwork. The principle of coordination and
integration in person centered care ensures that the patient’s preferences are met in delivering
high and quality care and nurses should therefore ensure that they incorporate this principle
throughout.
Patient education and information as a principle of person centered care is very important. While
providing care to the patients, studies recommend that it is the duty of the nurse to educate and
provide necessary information to the patient (Hewitt-Taylor 2015). The patient has the right to