Characteristics Of Person Centered Care

Person centred care could be defined as focusing on a person’s individual needs, wants, wishes and where they see their target goal. Person centred care also takes into account delivering person centred care to the patients family and carers, as well as the multidisciplinary team that is working together to provide care. The service user is the most important person in decision making for their health care and the nursing process. (Draper et al 2013). Person centred care reminds nurses and care staff that they are caring for the service user, their families and care staff providing the care, this allows the patient power in decision making towards their health and wellbeing. (Pope, 2011)

Nursing homes aren’t as welcoming as people imagine. Of course, these homes do have their advantages in helping families with their relative seniors. For example, nursing homes offer their care for our elderly community when sometimes we don’t have the time to do it ourselves,  they can get their own health care services while residing in these homes, and the people working can help with any daily tasks that the individual may need assistance with. These nursing homes may sound cordial to us because we think, ‘oh wow they are getting taken care like they are supposed to’ but who are we to speak for the opinions of our elderly when we can’t think and speak for them. That’s a big dilemma because these nursing homes aren’t always the appropriate answer for what the people need. These nursing homes show disrespect to these residents by how they treat them, they’re not receiving the freedom they deserve, and with the lack of company from friends and family can have a toll on these elderly mentally.

The Health Foundation (2014) states that ‘Person-Centred Care show an important way to make the patient feel involved in their own care’. If the patient has control over their own body and mind, then they will have an understanding of what is happening to them. Person-centred care is in place for the patients, staff and families all to get involved in the planning, care and discharge. It involves compassion which is important in a nurse’s role as the patient enters unfamiliar territory. All staff needs to consider the patients respect and dignity is upheld, with closing curtains, covering up the patient and asking for consent to enter the patient’s bed space.

Person centred care was first used in relation to people with demen-tia by a Professor called Tim Kitwood who founded the Bradford de-mentia Group in the 1980’s. His aim was to steer away from the medical diagnosis of dementia and to help those living with the ill-ness to live and be treated as an individual. To acknowledge that these people did have a voice even though in the medical eyes they were slowly losing their own mind. He wrote about the Enriched Model (1997) which detailed opportunities to maximise the well being of a person suffering from dementia whilst enhancing their daily living of the other elements that affect the person. For example people suffering from dementia have many challenges to deal with. They have the gradual memory loss but also lose the interaction with others, communication becomes repetitive and in the past, how to eat, drink, co ordination, coping with mood changes, general daily living skills become more difficult to complete along with depression.

Person Centred Care has different meanings for different people and in different contexts and is therefore difficult to define. Brooker (2004) divides this type of care into four main elements; a value of the person as a human being, an individual approach, understanding the person’s perspective and providing a social environment that supports psychological needs. Price (2006) supports this view, suggesting that Person Centred Care is ‘an understanding of the client, their circumstances and needs, deriving from a need for a more sensitive approach to healthcare’. Boise and White (2004) propose that care that is ‘based on personal needs and an experience meaningful to the individual’ is person centred. This article cites Zeruld (2003) who stated that: ‘For improvements in quality of care, both policies and practice needed to create supportive, spiritual, and physical environments stemming from a client’s own values’.

This unit develops understanding of the values and principles that underpin the practice of all those who work in health and social care. The essay consider theories and policies that underpin health and social care practice and explore formal and informal mechanisms required to promote good practice by individuals in the workforce, including strategies that can influence the performance of others. The first part of this essay will consider how principles of support are implemented by using Overton house residential care home to evaluate and explain how principles of support are applied. Key concepts such as person-centred approach and dilemmas and conflicts arising from the

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Person-centred care is the “Mutually beneficial partnerships between patients, their families, and those delivering healthcare services which respect individual needs and values which demonstrate compassion, continuity, clear communication, and shared decision making” (The Scottish government 2010).

The care received by people who have dementia must take into account each person’s individual needs and preferences and be delivered with patience, dignity and respect at all times, that is, it must be a person-centered. Person-centered care is the key to supporting people with dementia and any challenging behavior. To support this, health and social care staff should try to understand the personal history of the person and their life story in order to address the causes of challenging behavior. A person-centered care is able to adapt her behavior to support a vulnerable person and is able to support people with dementia by helping him in identifying and triggering that causes challenging

I noticed that when I transported the patient’s or help the patient’s with their daily tasks, they would have a smile or say a kind word to me. I kept thinking to myself to treat the nursing home residents the way that I would like to be treated when I become a senior citizen. In addition to exposing myself to the medical needs of the elderly and the special care they require, I recognized that sensitivity and compassion are necessary to health care delivery.

Person centred nursing care has been long associated with nursing and is a term which is recognised globally. It is used to describe the standard of care, which ensures a person/patient is at the centre at all times, and is involved in all aspects of their care and decision-making. Nurses and nursing staff alike provide, encourage and promote care that puts people at the centre at all times which includes patients, their families, their carers and helps them make informed choices about their treatment and care (Manley et al 2007). Emphasis on dignity, respect, compassion and human rights, is the essential basis for providing person-centered care (Jackson and Irwin 2011).

Patient or Person Centered Care focuses on values and principles addressing; knowing the resident as an individual, resident are more important than tasks, self-determination is a right of residents, environment reflects residents’ preferences, environment reflects a home, and care for the body, mind and spirit (Touhy, Jett, Boscart & McCleary, 2012). “Inherent in a person focus is the notion that attention to patients' problems in the context of their multimorbidity is at least as important as appropriate care for their individual diagnoses” (Starfield, 2011, para. 4). Patient Centered Care may include cross-training of staff , organizing living space into small households, enhancing dining, obtaining resident opinions on daily routines, as well as writing care plans in the voice of the resident, e.g. “I will walk twice a day” (Touhy, et al.,2012). The Person-Centered Care Model leads to lower staff turnover as well as improved job satisfaction. The Person-Centered Culture involves community such as children, pets or outings, there is a sense of belonging- “like family”, the environment is homelike, staff members are involved in decisions and plans of care, decision making is as close to the resident as possible, as well as individualized plans of care which are based on residents needs, usual patterns and desires (Touhy, et al., 2012).

Patient and family centered care is a model of care where the patients’ needs and preferences are taken into consideration when developing a plan of care. The patient, and frequently the family, are included in the decision making process. Education is the key. Well informed patients make better choices about the delivery of their care. In larger markets consumers have more choices about where they go to receive healthcare. “Patients can request that health care facilities provide an institutional report card that describes such indices as outcomes of patient care for medical conditions and surgical interventions, medical error rates, nosocomial infection rates, RN to patient staffing ratios, availability of support personnel, morbidity

The purpose of this essay is to discuss the importance of person-centred care. The focus of which will be taken from two statements derived from a statement @from@ The Health Foundation (2015) which are: Nurses should promote patients independence and autonomy by providing choice and promoting control within their care experience. The other statement that will be used for this assignment is; nurses should convey and promote compassion, dignity and respect in all aspects of the care process. With each statement the focus will be on defining terms and describing the characteristics of key concepts. Also I will be discussing nursing where the concepts are evident as well as when the same concepts are not evident and the experience

There was a time in my life that my friend’s boyfriend broke up with her, she needed a friend that would stay with her the whole time she needed it and I was that friend. I stayed with her gave her hugs and tissues when needed. She could have called any other friend of hers, but she decided to call me and I feel that she appreciates me more now than she did before. After that day I think she has more trust in me. By staying with her I am showing that I am caring. Caring can be performed in many different ways, like helping someone with their homework, or walking with someone that needs a friend. The characters Madeline from Everything Everything and Marin from Geraldo no Last Name are caring to others because they both care for someone that they hardly even know.