Person Centered Care

Running head: PERSON CENTERED CARE
PERSON CENTERED CARE
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Introduction:
Person centered care is a philosophical approach towards service development and
service delivery in healthcare sectors (Willems et al., 2015). This approach mainly promotes
providing of services in ways that are respectful of and responsive to the needs, values as well as
preferences of service users and their caregivers (Vikstorm et al., 2015). This assignment would
mainly be discussing the aspects of person-centered care and how healthcare wads can be
managed to develop person centered environment.
Overview my area of practice:
Presently, I am working in the geriatric department in one of the teams allocated for
rehabilitation care for old patients. Huge number of old patients mainly with chronic disorder
sympstoms is admitted on a daily basis. With the advancement of technology and medical
advancements, life expectancy had increased but quality of life could not be assured among older
patients. A marked increase in the number of older patients with chronic ailments had been
observed but the ward does not have sufficient staffs to handle the huge inflow successfully.
Therefore, providing individualized care had become difficult and time consuming.
Overview of the person-centered practice framework:
The healthcare professionals need to ensure following of five important care processes so
that they can successfully provide person centered care to patients. Working with the beliefs and
values of patients, engaging the patients in developing care plans, participating in shared
decision making, having sympathetic presence for the patients and providing them with holistic
care are the five important aspects (Willems et al., 2015). Nurses need to make sure that
particular person centered care they provide would have positive outcomes on patients. These

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outcomes would be satisfaction with care, involvement with care, feelings of well being and
develop a therapeutic relationship with professionals (McCance, McCormack & Dewing, 2017).
High levels of satisfaction and involvement in their own care ensures that their dignity and
autonomy is respected, their values and traditions are cared and these enhance their adherence
with the treatment plan (Vikstorm et al., 2015).
Pre-requisites of the person-centered practice and its impact on future practice:
Each of the prerequisites have been followed by a specific example by which nurses can
develop their future practices.
One of the most important components of the person-centered care is maintaining people
dignity, respect as well as compassion. When patients see that their human rights are maintained
and that their wishes and needs were given the first preferences, it results in higher patient
satisfaction. This helps nursing professionals to develop strong bonds with patients that in turn
ensure mutual trust and adherence of the patients with the medications (Kogan et al., 2016).
Every nursing professionals need to ensure certain important aspects in their healthcare practices
so that high quality patient centered care can be given to patients in their future. They need to be
fully committed towards their jobs to ensure high level of emotional intelligence and dedication,
sympathy and compassion towards patient and provide high quality and safe care to patients
(Vikstorm et al., 2015).
Firstly, they need to respect values of every service users and put them at the centre of
care. Secondly, they need to take into account the preferences, expressed needs of the patients,
and accordingly develop their care plans that align with their preferences (Kogan et al., 2016).
Often different patients come from various backgrounds and cultures with their respective

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cultural traditions, inhibitions, preferences and customs (Brummel‐Smith et al., 2016). Nurses
need to provide care that is culturally competent and aligns with their cultural needs. This
ensures patient satisfaction as well. They need to clarify the beliefs and values of not only the
patients and family members. They also need to be aware of their “self” that is their own
perceptions, biasness, cultural competency, their sensitivity towards others cultures and all. This
would help to develop cultural awareness and knowledge among nurses and pave their ways for
further development in future. They need to be aware of both their pharmacological and non-
pharmacological skills sp that they become experts in the future (Kim & Park, 2017)..
Third, the nursing professionals need to provide coordinating and integrating care and
need to work together with other members of the healthcare teams and the patients and his
families for making sure that there is smooth flow of communication, education and information
(Chaudhury et al., 2017). Nurses need to develop interpersonal skills to achieve this aspect of
patient centered care. Researchers are of the opinion that every professionals need to gain
informed consent from patients (Kolanowski et al., 2015). Patients need to be given information
about their health condition in details along with the different interventions that would be
provided to them. All the benefits and disadvantaged of the treatment procedures all need to be
discussed in details. Following this, consent needs to be taken from the patient (Kim & Park,
2017). This not only helps in making the patient feel involved in his own care but also helps in
reduction of anxiety among the patients and his family members about the treatment procedures
and health conditions. Therefore, this aspect of person-centered care would be included in the
future nursing practices as well .
Fourth, individualized care plan needs to be provided to patients which are unique to
their specific needs and at the same time assure making patients feel physically comfortable and