Shaping the Future of Nursing: Person-Centered Care in Healthcare

This essay explores the concept of person-centered care in nursing, emphasizing the importance of delivering healthcare that respects patients' individual values, beliefs, and preferences. It highlights the significance of effective communication and building professional relationships to understand and address patient needs, ultimately improving both the quality of care and patient satisfaction. The essay discusses the application of evidence-based practice and compassionate care strategies, incorporating scientific principles, clinical judgment, and patient-specific considerations. It references studies that support the benefits of shared decision-making, incorporating patient information into care plans, and promoting patient autonomy. The paper underscores the impact of person-centered care on health outcomes, patient experiences, and the encouragement of healthy lifestyles.

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1. The health workers, including the medical professionals and nurses should deliver care to the
patients without any discrimination by considering people’s culture, ethnicity, desires,
expectations, family situations, social circumstances, values and beliefs and provide a holistic
approach to care. Providing a person centered care helps people receive the care they in need
help people to assist themselves with care. Providing a person centered care approach not only
improves the quality of the care and services available to be delivered, but also, reduces pressure
on both the social and health services. Person centered care is characterized by respecting their
views, values and preferences and putting at the top or center of care, ensuring people safety and
making sure that they are physically comfortable (Starfield, 2019). To promote person centred
care, health professionals must effectively communicate and build a professional relationship
with the patients aligning with the nursing standards and understand their beliefs, preferences,
values and their concerns and address them by communicating effectively and deliver care by
recognising the needs of the patients.
2. Providing person centered care not only improves overall health outcome of the patients but
also enhances patient’s satisfaction. Person centered care is more than just providing people with
their necessary requirements in a medical point of view, it is also about considering various
attributes like people’s values, beliefs, culture and preferences while delivering care (Starfield,
2019). To provide an effective person centered care, the nurse and heath care professionals must
treat the patients with dignity and respect their decisions. It is evident from several research
studies that person centered care has a major impact on the quality of care to be delivered as it
improves the people’s experience on receiving care and increases satisfaction, encourage and
motivate people through proper education on the importance of healthy lifestyle and the ways to

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achieve it (Starfield, 2019). It also encourages people on making decisions and involving them in
the decision making process by considering both autonomy of the people by respecting their
views and decisions, as well as, educating them on their health condition or making them aware
of the treatment options available related to their health conditions (Bölenius et al., 2017).
3. The healthcare professionals should incorporate in their caring strategies the compassionate
and experienced practice of the Evidence Based Practice by considering scientific principles,
restraints of clinical judgment, as well as the patient’s personal and clinical peculiarities. The
medical professionals must implement strategies based on evidence by considering people’s
attitudes, values, preferences, expectations and beliefs. There are evidences showing the primary
underlying principles to provide person centered care that leads to an improved health outcome.
In a research by Hughes, Bamford & May, gives evidences proving that a person centered
approach is built on shared decision making with the patients by exploring and accessing
patient’s health information, preferences, needs, expectation and incorporate these in the care
plan to achieve a person centered approach to care (Hughes, Bamford & May, 2008). To provide
person centered care, it is important to be compassionate and take into consideration several
aspects from the person’s perceptions and respect their decisions and preferences.

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