Patient Centered Care Competency Analysis

Introduction
This paper will try to explain patient-centered care competence that ensures quality and safety education among the nurses. This competency includes the knowledge, skills, and attitudes that are crucial for preparing nurses when dealing with the health care systems. The patient-centered care method is necessary for ensuring the best health outcomes as well as secure efficiency and effectiveness in the health care systems (QSEN, 2017). The patient-centered care is a systematic process that can provide support in the association of both patients as well as families in giving better patients care experience. The process recognizes the patients and the designee as having total control and also a full partner in enhancing compassionate as well as the coordinated care about the patient’s preferences, need and also values. This way it ensures
that clinical decisions are made according to the patient’s values. With the families and the patient being involved in the integral healthcare decision making their decisions, emotional judgments and thought processes are to be considered. Nurses in providing this competence should employ knowledge that includes the ability to accommodate different understanding with patient-centered care such as the patient, his family and community preferences.
The integration and coordination in giving care, ability to give information, communicate as well as educate. Giving emotional and physical support. Good interpersonal relationship generated between the nurses and patient, good communication and empathy are fundamental aspects of the health care system. By good communication and listening skills, the nurses can show compassion towards the patient, engaging in care and generating trust which is valuable in the health care system. These traits are essential in the adherence to treatment and also self-care. The relationship between the patients and care providers eliminate the possibility of problems arising which affect the treatment outcomes and patient satisfaction (ACSQHC, 2010). Patient-centered care practice can help identify areas within the health system that needs improvement such as lack of care coordination, poor communication and systematic error among others. By identifying the nonfunctioning components, better outcomes are generated, and waste is reduced. The improvements made should focus on improving the system that will be able to generate better finances and also produce great health outcomes. The patients are communicated about their clinical status, their progress under treatment and prognosis. Information is also given about the process of care they receive and any information that facilitates autonomy, health promotion, and self-care. Physical comfort is regarding managing pain, assisting with daily activities and also making them comfortable in the hospital surroundings and the environment.
Integrality shows the unity and oneness of individuals in their environment to collaborate and in the nursing practice, this involves realizing that the observer is an integral part of the observation. Collaboration, coevolution and also the knowledge of the health patterns as well as unitary thinking are included. In nursing practice, the nurse's way of being around the patients shows care as well as clinical judgment (QSEN, 2017). Nurses should employ attitudes that appreciate every individual's uniqueness, beliefs, and personal values. Satisfaction is measured by the amount of care that is generated by the patients and nurses.
In quality care patient-centered care has a big impact on outcomes where it causes an improvement in the patients experiences making them more satisfied.
People are encouraged to lead a healthy lifestyle, the patients are encouraged to take part in decision making in their lives, the health outcomes of individuals is also encouraged after the treatment, the overall use of the patients in the care services is reduced which generally reduces the overall care cost. It also improves the confidence and satisfaction of the caregivers.
From the nurses perspective, a holistic approach is employed when dealing with the patient where attention is given to the patient as a whole. By listening and establishing a dialogue, the nurses strive to get the patient's skin through a therapeutic relationship where the patient is a key partner. The nurses employ sensitivity to the patient's culture, beliefs, and values where they recognize the patients as the experts regarding their needs (ACSQHC, 2010). To provide the best care competences are given on communication, self-management, counseling, strategies for behavior change among
others.
Benefits that arise from patient-centered care include reduced emergency return visits, decreased infection rates, fewer medical errors, clinical care that is improved, high functional status as well as improved liability claims. Patients with chronic and cardiac conditions with this care improve the disease management. Practicing the patient-centered care competency tends to lower the health care and operational costs. These practices reduce the average length of stay at the hospital and also improve the patient's satisfaction (Ohio Action Coalition, 2017). The effectiveness of the practice also lowers the care cost. Medical malpractice lawsuits are also reduced making the environment conducive for patient’s safety. Patient-centered care practices allow the care providers to be able to keep their current consumers and also attract new consumers by creating a brand.
Nurses are supposed to be well-educated and competent while executing these competencies. They should be able to employ basic skills to the complex application of knowledge when dealing with patients. However, the health care services are provided to the patients in an environment that are complicated due to many factors, for instance, the disease, policies, and procedures among others. An interaction of these factors accuses unanticipated outcomes. Errors could occur which can cause the nurse to be viewed as incompetent in his nursing practice. The nurses should, therefore, be able to identify the barrier in the relationships they hold with the patient (QSEN, 2017) s. In the nursing practice, the relationship between the patient and nurse is managed by recognizing, expressing as well as acting on the patterns that are recognized from the patients to ensure the best environment and condition for health improvement.
Conclusion
The patient-centered care approach makes aesthetic changes that benefit most patient's, and these changes operate to integrate care as well as provide the best experiences for the patients, The concept of this process puts the patient's needs, decisions and values at the center of their care making sure they are players in their care. This process has proven to be effective in reducing the number of admission rates, minimizing hospital stays and also reduce redundancies in the care practices. Several skills, knowledge, and attitudes must be employed by the nurses while using the patient-centered care approach. Patient-centered care practices allow the care providers to be able to keep their current consumers and also attract new consumers by creating a brand.