Reflective Essay: Patient Centered Care In Clinical

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Patient Centered Care in Clinical Throughout my life I have struggled with finding a healthcare provider I felt I could openly talk to and trust. Perhaps this is because I am younger and for the first 18 years of my life my parents chose my providers, but with all my new knowledge of nursing, I also cannot help but wonder if maybe this is also because the providers did not practice patient centered care. Patient centered care means providing the information necessary for a patient to be at the frontline of the decision-making process as it pertains to his or her care (Scrambler and Asimakopoulou 2014). This semester at clinical I was had the opportunity to implement patient centered care in the aspect of heart failure education. The opportunity …show more content…
However, even in all the supplies and resources in the world cannot replace genuine human interaction and conversation. S. Scrambler and K. Asimakopoulou state that the first component of patient centered care is understanding how the patient’s illness affects their everyday life (Scrambler and Asimakopoulou). I became aware that the patient had family members with the same diagnosis and that one of his biggest fears in becoming a heart failure patient was losing the ability to interact with his grandchild. The patient stated he had seen what heart failure can do to a person and he knew that he did not have the symptoms that interfered with life the way that it did for his family members. They state that the second component they discuss is the need to look at a patient holistically by understanding their “biopsychosocial circumstances.” I learned that his diet consisted of a lot of fast food because neither he nor his wife enjoyed cooking, but that the patient tried his best to make better choices at fast food restaurants. I learned that the patient was genuinely concerned about his health and that he had the resources and support to make the necessary changes. In listening to the patient, I was able to leave the information packet provided by the hospital at the bedside
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