Care Coordination Presentation to Colleagues
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Care Coordination Presentation to Colleagues
The rapid pace of change in health care necessitates the introduction of new care models that integrate a broad comprehension of transition management across the continuum and aspects of care management. The ensuing presentation regards care coordination basics, entailing the essential information concerning effective care coordination. The ensuing presentation helps colleagues take on expanded roles in enhancing patient outcomes and in supporting the management of the care coordination process. Understanding and implementing care coordination is at the center of high-quality, patient-centered care.
Nurses play an essential role in continuum and coordination care. Being mindful of the process, including how ethics, physiology, policy, and cultural needs influence patient and care outcomes, is essential. The ability is part of the ethical framework representing professional nursing and contributes to career growth and development. Several essential considerations for effective care coordination are as follows.
Collaboration with family and patients is the foundation of care coordination. The approach is ethical and emphasizes cooperation to decrease medical errors, create a supportive organizational culture, and establish honest and open communication (Herrin et al., 2015). It is also a cultural competence strategy essential for connecting with different stakeholders in the community. Critical approaches entail a practitioner agreeing with patients and their families on objectives and clearly defining accountability and goal attainment roles. It also involves considering patients and families as part of the team by ensuring they receive information on their care and health timely, accurately, and appropriately. Considering psychological safety by encouraging transparency on treatment adherence, symptoms, and clinical signs is also paramount.
Moreover, negotiating collaboratively with families and parents helps understand the patient’s worries, priorities, and desired outcomes, adding to the treatment’s accuracy. Supporting transparency by helping patients and families make optimal use of information sources, such as patient portals, is also advised. On such sites, patients can share experiences, perspectives, and ideas regarding ongoing progress.
Beyond collaboration, there is a need to create a satisfying patient experience. Happier patients add to an institution’s bottom line by boosting patient retention, enhancing reputation, and guaranteeing loyalty. Karasuda, Tsumoto, and Uchida (2014) identify the three critical aspects of patient satisfaction as transparency, patience, and communication. Supporting transparency helps lessen uncertainty and worries that come with being a patient. Being upfront, honest, and clear allows the affected parties to make educated choices regarding their journey towards better health. Maintaining unimpeded communication channels, especially regarding the treatment’s cost implications, helps lessen uncertainties further. Finally, considering how, at times, patients can be demanding and overbearing, being considerate and understanding their situation can go a long way towards supporting positive experiences.
Relying on the code of ethics in defending decisions is also essential. Like all other professions, nurses are guided by crucial moral principles in their operations and behavior, especially when handling moral dilemmas. According to Tariman (2017), potential ethical dilemmas entail the refusal of treatment, disagreements with caregivers, futile treatment options, scarcity of resources, end-of-life options, euthanasia, assisted suicide, and the treatment of patients suffering from impaired perspectives. According to 2019 Gallup Polls, the nursing profession has been consistently ranked the top-ranked honest and ethical profession for 16 years in the US (Rosenberg, 2020). We have a responsibility to defend this by employing ethical decision-making. It is often critical to ensure that patients have all the essential information concerning their care to support decision-making autonomy. A responsibility exists not to influence the patient’s choices by subordinating personal interests (Tariman, 2017). Beyond respecting autonomy, nurses must not harm intentionally. They must exercise charity and kindness and be fair and impartial. These ethics areas are also covered as critical tenants under the 2015 American Nurses Association (ANA) Code of Ethics.
Furthermore, the ability to explain and affect the impact of health care policies on the patient’s experiences and outcomes is crucial. Exercising this power is critical in protecting the quality of care and accessing opportunities and the needed resources. Arabi, Rafii, Cheragh, and Ghiyasvandian (2014) identify the policy influence as the power to affect affairs and decisions associated with the patient’s health through collaboration with other team members, effective communication, and political knowledge. The overall impact comprises increased favorability of the patient outcomes and enhancements on the practitioners’ job environment.
Finally, nurses must practice an evidence-based approach in the exercise. Inadequate medication intervention, especially in drug-specific scenarios, is a common factor in medical errors. We must employ scholarly and professional communication approaches to influence high-quality in the teamwork setting. Edwards (2017) finds this requirement as being at the center of redesigning effective, efficient, and safe care practiced under collaborative circumstances.
Handling the Change Process
Nurses must continuously redefine health care to meet evolving needs. Often patients and their families tend to have a misplaced perspective of the Healthcare environment because of existing and unfounded adverse beliefs. The medical practitioner’s responsibility is to counter these assertions by coordinating the care around the patient’s needs and those of their families. The strategy is essential in guaranteeing high quality, patient-centered care.
Instead of exercising undue influence on the process, we must develop excellent communication abilities to win over-commitment to a change initiative. Crucial visual-appealing tools, such as awareness videography, can be used to communicate effectively. For example, videos appeal to personal emotions and reinforce the message with visual and audio messages, which is crucial in drawing the needed attention. Katon et al. (2016) support communication as essential to limiting potential rebellion that threatens the change. Moreover, since service reconfiguration is understood differently by different people, some parties can see the approach as a potentially undesirable threat to the status quo. Responding to emerging concerns is hence critical. Secondly, we must make optimal use of the collaborative environment where varied perspectives are observed and respected. Reorienting personal beliefs and practices is also essential in coordinating the transformation (Beaulieu, Shamian, Donner, & Pringle, 2014). Finally, winning the stakeholders’ commitment is essential to sustaining the change.
Overall, comprehending care coordination is critical in offering high-quality care to patients and their families. Effective strategies entail collaborating with patients and their families on critical objectives, supporting satisfying patient experience, being ethical in making decisions, and exercising informed and individual policy decisions in imparting quality care. To ensure optimal implementation of this practice, nurses assume a transformational role in helping the health care system transition into a coordinated care plan. If done accordingly, the nursing profession will see an increased transition towards being more capable.
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