Chamberlain College NR501: Patient-Centered Care Model Report

This report focuses on the Patient-Centered Care (PCC) model and its application within the context of a Family Nurse Practitioner's (FNP) role. It begins with an introduction to PCC, highlighting its emphasis on patient needs and preferences to improve the quality of care. The report discusses the implementation challenges of PCC, addressing the complexities involved in defining and applying the model within healthcare systems. The role of the FNP is explored, emphasizing their importance in PCC implementation due to their direct patient interaction and long-term care responsibilities. The report stresses the need for specific training programs to equip nurses with the skills to identify patient needs and facilitate shared decision-making. The conclusion underscores the significance of the PCC model for maintaining high-quality care, while acknowledging the challenges in implementation. The report emphasizes the importance of the patient-doctor relationship in healthcare and the positive impact of a fully implemented PCC approach on patient-nurse interactions and outcomes.

Running Head: PATIENT-CENTERED CARE MODEL
PATIENT-CENTERED CARE MODEL: FAMILY NURSE PRACTITIONER
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Introduction
Patient-centered care (PCC) is an approach that highlights the standard of care of the healthcare
system considering the patient, with an ambition to make the quality of care be better.
This strategy of putting the patient in front line has been used extensively in majority of
healthcare systems however; its complexity has contributed to the challenges realized in its
practical implementation (Esden & Nichols, 2013). This article highlights the contributions of
the patient-centered care and its implementation focusing on the field of family nurse
practitioner.
Patient-centered care (PCC) is a high quality care that considers individual’s needs and
preferences when it comes to nursing care. Its main aim is to ensure that the patient gets the best
healthcare delivery. The Patient- Centered approach was thought of in early 1950s as a result of
high demand of healthcare system to improve quality care and correct inefficiency (Bartol,
2014). This can be made possible by staying away from the biomedical model and focus on the
interaction, cooperation and holistic strategy.
This approach has led to improved communication between the patients and the caregivers thus
boosting the quality care. This leads to increased patient’s satisfactory and a pleasant outcome.
Patient-Centered strategy is one of the six goals set by the Institute of Medicine as one that is
able to measure of quality of care in the healthcare systems ("Use of the i-Human Patient
Encounter Simulator in a Family Nurse Practitioner Program", 2019). However; healthcare
system faces a lot of difficulties in implementation.

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Implementing patient-centered care
The department in charge of healthcare systems that focuses on the patient requires some
important changes in the process of healthcare delivery. For example the Gold Coast Integrated
Care Program in Australia recommends the patient centered care strategy in providing an
alternative to hospital focused services and better coordination of care for those with chronic and
complex conditions (Gullickson, 2014). The PCC dimensions as described may serve as a basis
for developing policies and procedures for implementing this approach. The implementation
difficulties are due to the complexity of the PCC. The managers of the PCC are faced with
difficulties in defining this approach within the organization. In addition there are those who
doubt the effectiveness and the feasibility of this approach.
Family Nurse Practitioner
A family nurse practitioner is a registered nurse with advanced training in nursing. They care for
medically stable patients across the age groups that is, the infants, adolescents and adults. They
provide services such as adult care checkups, diagnosing and maintaining minor trauma and
teaching disease prevention to patients (Olds, London, Ladewig & Free, 2015). The family nurse
practitioner approaches patients with an understanding of the value of collaborative working for
instance; they collaborate with other healthcare officers to help patient recover his or her health.
They work with the patients maintaining their health over a long term focusing on preventative
care. These staffs spend most of their time with the patients therefore they play a significant role
on the PCC implementation. The quality of their service has the largest percentage on the overall
experience of care and patient’s satisfaction. The family nursing staff impact greatly on the PCC

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therefore there should be some training programs for nurses to equip them with tools for
identifying unique needs for patients and for shared decision making (Schram, 2012). Nurses
should also be trained on the contents related to quality care & safety.
Conclusion
Patient-centered approach is a vital strategy that is used to maintain a high standard quality care.
However, the complexity makes it difficult to implement. It is vital to come up with proper
training programs for internationalization of the Patient-centered process among all healthcare
workers and nursing staff. Patient-doctor relationship is vital in any health care activity. It is one
way of making patients feel comfortable and be able to provide the doctor or the nurse with
appropriate information that can lead to proper diagnosis of the disease. In my opinion, Patient-
centered approach presents an immediate response to the problem of the patient. If this approach
is implemented fully, the relationship between the patient and the nurse will be stronger and this
results to getting the most out of the discussion between the two parties.

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