4 Principles of Person Centered Care Approach in Healthcare

This presentation discusses the 4 principles of person centered care approach in healthcare, which include treating people with respect, providing coordinating care, offering personalized care and support, and involving service users in decision making. It also highlights the importance of person centered care and its benefits for service users and providers. The presentation emphasizes on the need for healthcare providers to consider the culture, communication, collaboration, and care while providing care to service users.

Person Center Care
INTRODUCTION
Person centred care is where patients actively participate in their own medical treatment and cooperate with health professionals.
This presentation is based on person centred care approach as what makes it effective and reason of using this in healthcare.
Main four principles of person centre care approach that make this approach effective and efficient
include:
Treat people with respect: Service users feel that they have lost their independence as soon as they enter care
and it puts their dignity at risk. But this person centered care approach enables service users to maintain their
dignity as healthcare providers respect them and their needs.
Providing coordinating care: Healthcare providers sometime become frustrated because they have to
consider needs of patients and it becomes difficult for them to provide care that is good for patients. So, they
need to interact with other careers in order to make better decision and solving such kind of problems . It helps
them out I delivering care to patients and along with this, they need to maintain privacy by not sharing
personal details with others.
Offering personalized care and support: As compared to standard approach, personalized care may have
positive impacts on overall health of service users. It is principle of person centered care approach to provide
personalized care as it allows service users to retain some of their freedom. It can satisfy their needs and can
make them feel valued as well
4 principles of person centre care
Person centre care
Person centered care is an approach in which healthcare providers focus on patient or service users who are receiving care.
Healthcare providers make sure that person is receiving care with dignity and respect and involve them in all appropriate decision making
process. In other words, it can be said that this is an approach in which all important elements have been considered and focused that are
relevant to person or service user such as: support, treatment and others that will be beneficial and appropriate for patient, family and carers.
So, on the basis of this, it can be said that the priority in person centered care approach is being given to service users as it is being
considered as what is important to them without making assumptions. Deciding what patient is going to wear, what patient wants to eat and
in which activities he wants to be engaged in are all examples and questions that need to be considered.
Importance of person centre care
There are number of reasons that shows that person centered care approach plays a vital role and health care professionals should
use this approach in health care. Some benefits that service users and service providers can take with this approach include:
Decreases unfair treatment: As it is stated that in this approach all factors are being considered that can make beneficial to service users.
So, in this context, it can be said that this approach can decrease the risk of negative, unfair and harmful treatment. Service user is put at the
centre of the care and he is being allowed to choose the way in which they want to be cared and supported.
Flexibility: Other main benefits of person centered care are flexibility as service users are being provided an opportunity to take decision
into their own treatment.
Responsibility: service users are being given responsibility for their own decision and it makes them feel valued, interested and engaged in
their own well-being. Overall, it can be said that this approach makes beneficial to service users.
Autonomy: People who take responsibility for their own health are more likely to become more aware of their health. It makes service users
aware about their own health as whether they are having properly, getting enough exercise and others.
◦ C’s of person centre care
Along with principle, there are some other factors that also need to be considered by health care providers
while providing care to services users as per the person centred care such as:
Culture: It is one of the main factor and principle that needs to be considered. As per this, service providers
need to make use of treatments as per the values and culture of service users. Service providers need to
make use of appropriate language and need to take care of values of service users as per this C.
Care: It is the main factor and elements that make this approach effective. As per this, service providers
need to provide care in a manner that can make beneficial to service users and can make them feel valued.
When service users are being provided an effective care then it can decrease patients’ stay rate in hospitals
and can have positive impact on their health.
Communication: Clear and concise communication is also important. As per this, service providers need to
interact continuously with service users and providing detailed information to them about their current
health. It makes service users able in improving decision making process.
Collaboration: Service providers need to collaborate with other care providers for providing qualitative
care to service users. They need to perform functions collaboratively with other providers, service users ,
family members and others for improving health of service users.
CONCLUSION
It has been summarized from the above study that person centered care approach plays a vital
role. It has further discussed some challenges that healthcare providers face while providing care by this
approach.