Lilly Walden describes herself as an active, athletic, and healthy woman. In her mid-forties she continues to run 2–3 miles 5 days per week. Lilly is married with three children and is employed by the local school district as a speech therapist. Lilly describes herself as health-conscious. Her diet is balanced, and she is a nonsmoker and drinks wine on rare social occasions. Lilly has a history of asthma, triggered by environmental changes, and it typically requires antibiotic therapy for bronchial infections 2–3 times per year.
This presentation will review the following:
1. Priority care needs of the patient at the center of the case study
2. Priority care needs of the family care providers
3. The disruption that this acute illness has caused for the patient, family members, and clinical microsystem
4. The experiential features of acuity
5. The elements that the clinical microsystem
6. Potential barriers to providing care
7. The communication strategies that were used in the delivery of care
8. Well-defined (but flexible) roles within the clinical microsystem
9. Potential strategies for unexpected changes
10. The Deployment Flowchart
Priority care needs of the patient require the organization to take good care of the patient in a timely manner to find the cause of the pain being experienced. The patient’s pain has to be kept at minimum, have direct communication with the patient and their family and try to find the cause of the pain in a timely manner and provide follow up instructions for the patient.
Priority care needs of the family. It is vital that they contact Lilly’s husband Tom because they need consent from him and have to keep him informed of the wife’s situation. The organization has to communicate the patient’s treatment plan to the spouse just in case Lilly is