Effective Strategies for Collaborating with Patients

Effective Strategies for Collaborating with Patients

Effective Strategies for Collaborating with Patients

Patient care involves a team-based care plan that includes collaborating with medical care staff and the patient’s family members. The agenda is to raise awareness about the disease among all the concerned people. All the nursing staff members, health professionals, specialists, paramedic staff, the patient’s family, and the patient himself should be part of this team. The main aim of this team-based care plan is the availability of effective and safer care to the patients (Poitras et al, 2018). The agency presents two main strategies that might prove helpful for better outcomes. Both strategies involve collaboration with patients’ families.

The first strategy comprises wider approaches, including team-based care that involves all the concerned people in the health care department for patient-centered care, reconciling medication to ensure better patients outcomes, a coordinated care administration, use of Information technology that creates better communication among the health care facilitators and patients thus promoting the quality of care.

The second strategy following particular care coordination involves designing a coordinated care plan for the patients, allowing proper communication and education of the patients, determining the patient’s requirements and reaching health goals, assisting with care transition, implementing proper monitoring and follow up plans, promoting patients’ health goals and including community resources into the plan.

As indicated by the researchers at Johns Hopkins University, nurse-guided primary care has improved the health outcomes for community organizations. This model involves a specially educated nurse. The nurse takes a preliminary assessment of the patient, collaborates with other health care facilitators, determines the patients’ needs, involves the health specialist, and follows a highly coordinated care plan (Haas et al., 2019). Guided care can save up to 11% on total health care expenses and limit hospital re-admissions, thus providing safe, effective, and inexpensive care to the patients.