Patient Centered Care.edited

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Running Head: PATIENT-CENTRED CARE 1

Patient-Centered Care

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PATIENT CENTERED CARE 2

Patient-Centred Care

The way the Healthcare System Ought to have assisted the Patient

Careful consideration of the excerpts from the patient's blog posts creates a picture of a

widened disconnect of a patient's healthcare needs and what the providers, in return, give them.

Such a position is reinforced by analyzing the actions of the patient’s primary care physician

throughout her ailment journey as well as other specialists such as "Dr Feelgood.” The healthcare

system ought to have adopted a patient-centred care approach in assisting the patient (Patient-

centered care n.d). It should be noted that the patient was chronically suffering from two rare

conditions, that is the postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) and the Ehlers-Danlos

Syndrome (EDS), a situation that compounded her problems even further.

Patient-centred care refers to the healthcare provider practice that delivers healthcare

needs to patients and their families in a way that each patient values the most. It comprises

listening to the patient, always informing and involving them in the process of advancing care to

them (Topaz et al., 2019). The practice emphasizes respecting the preferences of the patient,

coordinating and integrating the care process, informing and educating the patient, guaranteeing

patient physical comfort and managing patient emotion. Other issues include involving friends

and family, laying the ground for continuity and transition as well as improving access to

healthcare.

How could the care delivery have been different?

In the event that the practice was being observed in the case of Jess Jacobs, several

unfortunate things that the patient encountered could have been avoided. As she notes in one of

her blog excerpts, patient-centred care would have guaranteed improved patient experience as a

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Running Head: PATIENT-CENTRED CARE Patient-Centered Care Name Professor Date 1 2 PATIENT CENTERED CARE Patient-Centred Care The way the Healthcare System Ought to have assisted the Patient Careful consideration of the excerpts from the patient's blog posts creates a picture of a widened disconnect of a patient's healthcare needs and what the providers, in return, give them. Such a position is reinforced by analyzing the actions of the patient’s primary care physician throughout her ailment journey as well as other specialists such as "Dr Feelgood.” The healthcare system ought to have adopted a patient-centred care approach in assisting the patient (Patientcentered care n.d). It should be noted that the patient was chronically suffering from two rare conditions, that is the postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome (POTS) and the Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), a situation that compounded her problems even further. Patient-centred care refers to the healthcare provider practice that delivers healthcare needs to patients and their families in a way that each patient values the most. It comprises listening to the patient, always informing and involving them in the process of a ...
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