Person-Centered Care: Principles of Practice Development Analysis

This report examines person-centered care as a key principle in practice development within healthcare. It defines person-centered care as an approach that prioritizes the patient's values, beliefs, and preferences throughout their care journey. The report explores the core concepts of 'person,' 'caring,' and 'person-centeredness,' highlighting the shift from a practitioner-focused to a patient-focused approach. It outlines the four key areas of person-centered care: prerequisites, care environment, person-centered process, and outcomes. The analysis emphasizes the importance of building strong relationships between patients, healthcare providers, and family members to enhance healthcare outcomes. The report concludes that person-centered care fosters a therapeutic relationship and improves patient engagement, advocating for the restructuring of healthcare processes to meet individual patient needs. It references key academic sources to support its arguments and provides visual aids to clarify concepts.

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Introduction
Practice development is defined as a ceaseless process focused on improvement by
increasing the effectiveness in patient-centered care. It is based on several principles that are
applied in healthcare, one of the principles is person centered care defined as an approach in
which the beliefs, values and preferences of the patient are expressed and used in the whole
process of management (Manley & McCormack 2004). According to Manley (2004) it is a
philosophical approach to service delivery and development that focusses on services through the
needs, preferences and values of the people under care. This paper shall focus on person-centered
care which is one of the principles under practice development.
From image one, person centered care revolves around the patient through basing
decisions on the needs of the patient rather than the perspective of the practitioner. This
represents what the care is all about.

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Image 1: what personalized care means
Retrieved from: https://www.slideshare.net/NHSIQ/person-centred-care-poll-1
To understand person-centered care we need to understand the definition of person,
caring and person centeredness. The person is believed to be unique, authentic, worthy and
dignified and is recognized, respected and trusted to deal with anything (McCormack &
McCance 2010). Person centeredness is seen as the characteristic of people depending on
relationships and living in a social world while each exists in their own context making them
recognized, respected and trusted as a person (McCormack & McCance 2010).This means that
practitioners have to change the care process from “what’s the matter with you” to “what matters
with to you” as shown in Image 2, where the focus is the needs of the patient rather than the
problems that they have.

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Image 1: New definition of healthcare from person centered approach
Retrieved from: https://www.slideshare.net/NHSIQ/person-centred-care-poll-1
The person-centered care is built on four areas. First we have the prerequisites which
define the nurse’s attributes that affect the care given (McCormack & McCance 2010). The other
area is the care environment which describes the entire context in which care in offered. Person-
centered process is the other area that focuses on the activities employed during care delivery.
Through a holistic approach, the care revolves around patient by incorporating the family,
healthcare team and healthcare instructions to achieve the best approach that meets the specific
needs of the patient as shown in Image 3. Lastly, it’s the outcomes expected after the
implementation of person-centered care.

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Image 2: the scope of personalized care
Source: https://image.slidesharecdn.com/ptcentredcare-150204025630-conversion-
gate02/95/patient-centred-care-6-638.jpg?cb=1423040338
The main role of the approach is to develop better relationships between the parties
involved in the process. Through a holistic approach that integrates the family, healthcare
practitioners and medical instructions to the needs of the patient. Better relationships are formed
thus leading to increased healthcare outcomes. From Image four, the practitioner is the driver of
the vehicle while the patient is passenger who determines whether the practice is appropriate or
not. Lastly, through participation in developing clinical outcomes, people become proactive in
meeting their needs thus reducing pressure on health and social services.

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Image 3: the importance of personalized care
Source: https://valuingpeople.org.au/the-resource/what-is-person-centred-care
Conclusion
Person centered care is one of the principles for practice development and has been able
to foster a therapeutic relationship between the patient and provider through the patient’s
engagement and involvement in care. Healthcare organizations need to restructure their
processes and ensure that they focus on meeting the needs of the patient. The approach can
improve healthcare outcomes by observing the varying needs of the patient in a hospital set up.

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