Reflective Approaches in Implementing Person Centred Practice

This article discusses the importance of person centred care in healthcare and the challenges faced by professionals in implementing this approach. It also explores the process of adopting person centred practice and the different dilemmas experienced in the workplace. The article further explains the social and medical models used in person centred practice.

Reflective Approaches in Implementing Person Centred Practice
Comparing social and medical models
Person centred care includes the equal involvement of all individuals in all associated
activities of care like planning, developing and monitoring. This is the important approach
regarding providence of all healthcare rights to individuals for safeguarding their life. There
is huge importance of this concept because this will create an obligation over professionals
where they must have to adopt best practices and inform all decision makings to person. In
its successful application must for a professional to know about the behaviour, issues and
causes associated with particular person. This is so because everyone has different body
structure and lives in different style where causes will be different for some same kind of
issues All such information further directs the professional in providence of effective
medication according to the body needs. The main purpose of this approach is to put the
person at centre of the healthcare where everything is known to him and revolves around
the personal need.
There are two types of model used in the application of person centred practice
which are known as social and medical. Social model is related with ascertainment of all
information about the person including behaviour, culture, issues and causes. The same also
covers the application of relevant practices according to their personality that help to meet
their social needs at the time of providing personal care. On the other hand, medical model
work in the direction of effective medication on the basis of the information ascertained
from application of social model. Here, treatment of disease is only provided by
considering all the information related to body and cause. Simultaneously, all the
information related to such decision making is disseminate to persons.
It is clear from the above description that medical model is based upon the
information attained from social model. So, providence of better is care totally depends
over effective integration between both.
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Challenges faced at the time of giving person centred care
The application of person centred approach is not easy. This requires the facing of lots of
challenges by professionals. All these challenges are presented below:
Non supportive behaviour of a person: All the persons are not such supportive that
provide all information regarding their behaviour, culture, medical history and other
different number of issues that have some kind of influence over functioning of
body. This hinders the capacity of professional to judge the personality where do
not allow to adopt the practice which is most efficient in terms of tackling
behavioural and medicinal requirements.
Large number of patients at a time: There are many number of patients come for
treatment at a time. It is not possible in case of everyone to apply the process of person
centred care. So, the issue of time is the reason that creates the challenge.
Lack of staff: It is clear that ratio of professionals and persons is uneven in society. The
presence of ineffective amount of professionals is the reason that not able to provide
equal time to all. This creates the challenge regarding equal treatment of all.

Process of adopting person centred approach
For the purpose of providing person centred care to any person required to adopt
effective process and procedure. This is the only way that provides the opportunity to work
properly in directive way where able to fulfil all desirable needs of approach along with
person. The different steps of process which are important to adhere step by step are defined
below:
Basic information about patient: This step includes the gathering of information about
behaviour and culture. This has major importance in the direction of better care where able
to adopt the physical practices that will meet their social needs.
Issues and cause: This is the second step which includes the ascertainment of
information about issues faced by person along with their appropriate cause. This further
help the professional to link with lifestyle in perfect designing of medication package which
will be most appropriate in all nature.
Response nature of body: This is step that includes the gathering of information medical
history of person and the response nature of body. This will provide the opportunity in
further building of effective medicine combinations.
Medication: This step includes the providence of medication according to the all
information grabbed from the above steps. This includes the actual implementation of
medicinal procedure where treatment of person begins in the direction of professional.
Information to person: This step includes the providence of all information to a
person about its actual condition and medications provided for early and effective
recovery from the situation.
Regular monitoring: This is the last step where person is regularly monitored by the
professional that what is the reaction of medicines on body and what percentage of
improvement they ascertained in situation. This is important step for making any kind
of further changes in medications according to need.
Different dilemmas experienced at workplace
There are many type of dilemmas arises while performing the work and providing
the person-centred practice that has direct negative impact over consistency of same
operations. All these different dilemmas are explained below:
Treatment of all: Due to the uneven ration of professional and person, first priority is
that everyone can avail the health service at the time of need. This creates the dilemma
that if focus over person centred approach then there are many who deprive of basic
medical services. But, if they do not provide person centred care than have to
compromise with service quality.
Associated challenges: The number of challenge in person centred care is
large as compared to any other. This would be the reason that professionals think twice
before adopting the approach of person centred care.