Person-Centered Care

Running head: PERSON-CENTERED CARE
PERSON-CENTERED CARE
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Introduction:
This assignment would mainly be written in the form of a reflection based on the concept
of person-centered care. It would show the ways healthcare professionals could follow Roper-
Logan-Tierney model and clinical-reasoning to ensure person-centered care. The main reflective
framework that would be followed in the assignment to complete the reflection would be Gibbs’
Reflective cycle.
Description:
This semester had included a unit entirely based on the important topic of person-
centered care. Our lecturer had provided a detailed discussion about the topic in details ensuring
that each student had developed a detailed knowledge about the ways to conduct person-centered
care in a real-life scenario. The unit also contained how Roper-Logan-Tierney model as well as
clinical reasoning cycle helps in providing person centered care. There had been discussion
sessions on this topic in the classrooms and we were allocated home tasks that helped all of the
students to ensure they had sufficient skills and knowledge to carry on person–centered care in
their future practices with appropriate application of Roper-Logan-Tierney model as well as
clinical reasoning cycle.
Feelings:
The important features that had been taught under the concept of person-centered care
had made me feel that following this process would enable them to provide high quality care to
the patient that would ensure patient satisfaction. The two theories like -Logan-Tierney model as
well as clinical reasoning cycle contribute to the achievement of high quality person-centered
care. Moreover, the way our lecturer explained the concepts to us made us feel its importance in

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the present day healthcare services especially in ensuring dignity and autonomy of the patient
and also to ensure high quality life. Therefore, I felt this course unit helped me in developing
detailed knowledge on the concepts, which would help me in being a competent nursing
professional in the future.
Evaluation:
The course helped me to learn that patient centered care is the practice of caring for
patients as well as their families in manners that are valuable and meaningful to the individual
patient. This approach mainly advises the healthcare professionals to listen to patients and family
members and accordingly inform them and involve them in their own care processes (Kogan et
al., 2016). Vikstrom et al. (2015) has described person-centered care as the approach of caring of
patients that is respectful of as well as responsive to individual patient references, values and
needs and even to ensure that patient values guide all the clinical decisions. This form of care
ensures putting the patient and the family members in the centre of the decision making process
and allowing them complete freedom and authority for making sure that their preferences,
expectations and inhibitions are taken into consideration while developing the care process
(Roen et al., 2018). On close evaluation of the topics that were included under the concept of
“person centered care”, I have come to understand the specific steps that I would need to include
in my care practices for ensuring high quality care to the patient. I should develop effective
communication skills that help me to establish rapport with the patient, connect with the patient
emotionally, and encourage him to participate in his or her own care. I should be tailoring the
care processes in way, which suit the needs of the patient as well as with what the patients want
to achieve. Often in healthcare organizations, patients are seen to come with multiple chronic
disorders that often create challenges for the professionals to manage. They cannot decide what