Fundamentals of Nursing and Midwifery 2e

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Planning person-centred care

LEARNING OUTCOMES

After completing this chapter, the learner should be able to accomplish the following: 1. Describe the purpose and benefits of planning person-centred care 2. Identify three elements of comprehensive planning 3. Prioritise the person’s health problems 4. Describe how a person’s goals and nursing and midwifery care interventions are linked to the identified health problems 5. Develop a person-centred plan of care with goals that relate to nursing or midwifery interventions 6. Differentiate between nurse and midwife-initiated interventions and medical(doctor)-initiated interventions 7. Use criteria to evaluate planning skills 8. Describe five common problems related to person-centred planning, their possible causes and remedies.

KEY TERMS

care intervention care maps clinical pathways computerised plan of care

consultation discharge planning goal initial planning

nursing or midwifery intervention ongoing planning

plan of person-centred care standardised plan of care

P LANNING PERSON-CENTRED CARE is the third phase in the process of delivering and evaluating care. This process of planning care is explored throughout this chapter in the context of person-centred care (see Figure 17-1). The process involves the nurse or midwife working in partnership with the person and family to establish priorities,

identify goals of care, select evidence-based care interventions and communicate the plan of care. The purpose of planning person-centred care is to address current and potential health problems. The plan of care is based on the information col- lected during the health assessment phase. The subjective and objective data are analysed and synthesised and this leads to

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