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.