A reflective essay based on an episode of patient care.
The Role Of A Nurse Nursing Essay. According to the UK Department of Health (2008) high quality of care is protecting patients’ safety, treating them with dignity, respect, compassion, giving them choice, creating a safe environment, eliminating healthcare acquired infections and avoidable accidents.
As stated by Scheffer and Rubenfeld (2000) “Critical thinking in nursing is an essential component of professional accountability and quality nursing care. Critical thinkers in nursing exhibit these habits of the mind: confidence, contextual perspective, creativity, flexibility, inquisitiveness, intellectual integrity, intuition, open-mindedness, perseverance, and reflection.
This essay has expressed a clear understanding of the importance of the person centred care approach when caring for an older patient as a result of in depth research of nursing literature and from this student’s own personal experience from clinical placement.
Patient Centered Care Florence Nightingale paved the way for patient centered care in nursing. She realized that patients should be treated with dignity, respect and treatments that are in the best health interest of the patient.
Centered Care Experts agree that, care should be focused on patients because the outcome of treatment depends on how the health care providers relate to patients (Reynolds, 2009). Unlike the convectional way of caring for patients that focuses on healthcare provider, the hospital, and technology, patient-centered care revolves around the patient psychological needs.
Holistic patient-centred care (PCC) is often regarded as the quintessence of nursing practice. However, closer examination reveals that provision of care for patients with a physical illness or disability is centred around their compromised physical condition rather than their individual needs.
PATIENT-CENTERED CARE METHODS AND PRACTICES LEADING TO HEALTH OUTCOMES AND FINANCIAL BENEFITS IN HOSPITAL CARE. by. Jermaine Ossie Lowery. BA, Sociology, University of Pittsburgh, 2012. Submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the. Department of Health Policy and Management. Graduate School of Public Health in partial fulfillment.