Reflective Writing on Person-Centered Care

REFLECTIVE WRITING ON PERSON-CENTERED CARE
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REFLECTIVE WRITING ON PERSON-CENTERED CARE
1. Description
Person-centered has adopted many definitions over the years. it is referred to as patient-
centered care, mother-centered care, or client-centered care. The above are used differently in
different contexts. This shall as learned and understood from tutorial contents of unit HLSC 139
be used to reflect on the understanding of person-centered in future nursing professional using
Roper–Logan–Tierney theory of nursing (Holland & Jenkins, 2019). The scrutiny for
professional nursing, which is beliefs, values or ethics regarding the patients’ care and treatment,
will be compared with the existing knowledge. A patient is a person who goes to the hospital to
seek care and needs the attention of a healthcare professional. This paper will focus on learning
and understanding of person-centered care using the Gibbs model of learning, and the clinical
reasoning cycle to come up with the most appropriate approach of person-centered care in the
future nursing practice. Roper–Logan–Tierney theory of nursing incorporates some factors
believed to affect Activities of Living (Holland & Jenkins, 2019). They include psychological
factors, which are not only emotional but the ability to understand, spiritual beliefs and cognition
(Capuzzi & Stauffer, 2016). Patients’ psychological factors would include what they know,
believe, feel, hope and think. The other factor, which is essential in this paper according to the
theory, is the sociocultural factor. The sociocultural factor is the experience an individual has in
society and the impacts their culture have on them.
Feelings
Roper–Logan–Tierney theory of nursing was first introduced in the 1980s to the medical
practice and is based on the activities of living. Williams (2017), state that the primary focus of
the model is to be used as a guide during the assessment of patients care in the nursing

profession. With the knowledge, gained it is understand this model informs me that the model
majors on the assessment of the way the patient has been fairing in regards to patients’ stay in
hospital and when they got ill (Holland & Jenkins 2019). Before the introduction to this theory, I
thought when a patient is introduced to a nurse, they nurses' action was the only way to save the
patient.
In contrast, I learn that the process of healing takes time and is dependent on some factors
within and outside the nurse or the patient. For an instant, I learned that sociocultural factors like
expectations and values, individuals' ability to carry out daily activities of living or actual health
or individual health perception, and social status or class might determine the success of the
healthcare given by the nurse. Besides, after learning about clinical reasoning, I understood that
it could help with the understanding and application of the factors affecting ALs identified in the
Roper–Logan–Tierney theory of nursing. I will use Clinical Reasoning as the best method in
passing judgment to collected patients' signs, information gathered, understanding of patients'
medical condition planning and implementing the appropriate therapeutic interventions,
evaluating the outcomes, or learning from the whole process (Bradshaw & Hultquist, 2016). I
have been convinced that person-centred care is the involvement of patients in their care
decision-making to achieve the best results (Schmidt, MacWilliams & Neal-Boylan, 2017). I
realize that both clinical reasoning and RTL both influences activities of living and more
particularly the sociocultural and psychological (Lubarsky et al., 2015).
2. Evaluation
Clinical reasoning and Roper–Logan–Tierney theory of nursing has equipped me with the
knowledge that will enable my practice of person-centred care. It was amazing how the class
presentation of the clinical information would be easy to understand and relate to (Holland &