SELF-MANAGEMENT SUPPORT PLAN FOR A COPD PATIENT

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Self-management, partnership of a patient living with COPD Under the care of a student
nurse student
Introduction
It is best practice to involve patients in an active role in their health management. Long-
term diseases that include asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), hypertension,
and heart failure are examples of conditions requiring this. Those with illnesses like these can
have a high rate of morbidity. As a result, it's critical to promote as much successful self-
management as possible. The explanations why patients with COPD may find self-management
beneficial, as well as how nurses might assist them in becoming more active in their self-
management, are described in this paper.
For several years, the government has promoted self-management through general
projects like the Expert Patient Programed and specialized programs like DESMOND for
diabetes and therapeutic interventions for COPD patients. According to research, Individuals
who become more engaged in their healthcare and those with higher degrees of mastery
(described as having a deep understanding or expertise in a discipline) have better results. COPD
is a disease that has an impact on the patient, their family, and the community as a whole.
According to Jane (2019), a 2011 worldwide study on COPD, served as a timely reminder that
several people of working age struggle with COPD, which can have a considerable influence on
the person's financial and social well-being as well as those of the people surrounding them.
Principles of Self-Management
Individuals with long-term medical issues, family and friends, and caregivers will decide
things, take action, and handle a variety of circumstances that affect their health daily. Self-

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management assistance recognizes this and helps people get the information, conviction, and
capabilities they need to determine what is best and take the best actions. Individuals, rather than
healthcare practitioners or services, govern their health and well-being the entire time. The
benefits of assisting people in managing their own health as best as possible are highlighted by
national health policy and mounting evidence of desirable outcomes. Those with health issues,
healthcare providers, providers (both local and outside the NHS), and policymakers can all
benefit from these changes (Fagan et al., 2017) Self-management assistance, when combined
with high-quality professional treatment, ensures that individuals obtain an entire spectrum of
help they need to manage the physical, mental, and social effects of their long-term health issues
at different phases and ages throughout their life.
Self-management care is based on four principles, which include, allowing people to be
treated with dignity, compassion, and respect; providing a system of care, support, or therapy;
providing one-on-one care, assistance, or treatment, and assisting people in recognizing and
developing their own skills and abilities so that they can live a self-sufficient and satisfying life.
However, the groups must work in partnership, with a shared understanding and stick to the self-
management plan. Self-management support for individuals with long-term medical
complications entails: • taking an active role in determining what outcomes are crucial to them
and how they are achievable, in partnership with nurses or other care experts; • getting support in
knowledge formation, skills, self-belief, and tenacity to mitigate the impacts of their symptoms
and constraints to live a happy, fulfilling life; and • becoming eligible to receive the respect they
deserve both within and outside of their health care system. The best self-management support
necessitates changes throughout the system, including how treatments are controlled, scheduled,
commissioned, and delivered, as well as how healthcare practitioners and individuals with long-

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term health issues engage in partnership, and how the individuals get support in between
appointments.
Evidence and underlying principles for the self-management support plan. Consider the
associated benefits and potential challenges
The self-management in this case is guided by the notion that individuals are prone to
take part in activities to a point they have the confidence that they are competent. The parts of
self-management in this support plan include Activities accomplishments, vicarious experience,
Persuasion ability, and emotional coupled with physical states. Self-efficacy will guide the
COPD patient that he is effective in performing specific activities at the age of 60. This support
plan carries significant implications for the patient’s motivation. The plan will provide that
patient with four sources of information that he will utilize in developing self-efficacy decisions.
In order of his age and strength, he will be aware that being highly efficacious requires acting,
thinking, and eliminating the feelings of feeling inefficacious in facing his situation (Fagan et al.,
2017). He will produce his future rather than foretelling it as he manages his situation.
Sources of Self-Efficacy in the Self-management Support Plan
Individual assessment for the plan will be based on the patient’s accomplishments.
Previous successes in dealing with cigarette cessation will give mastery expectations. However,
repeating failures will reduce them. He will achieve vicarious experience by observing other
COPD victims who performed similar activities successfully. It will serve as a form of modeling
and it will culminate in expectations from the individual that he can elevate his performance
through learning from his observations. With persuasion, the individual will be guided through
suggestions, where he will be convinced that he will be successful in handling the specific task