NURS FPX 4050 Assessment 3 – Care Coordination Presentation to Colleagues

The focus of healthcare organizations on quality healthcare has increased the utilization of patient-centered interventions that promote continuity in care. Patient-centered interventions have benefits that include patient satisfaction with care, patient empowerment, and active patient involvement in care, which result in better health outcomes. Patient and family-centered interventions operate on the fact that patients and families have expertize related to the care that they need due to their experiences. Patient and family-centered interventions produce the desired health outcomes through the promotion of behavioral change. Therefore, this research paper explores the basics of care coordination, patient and family centeredness in healthcare.

Effective Strategies for Collaborating with Patients and Families

Nurses can utilize a number of strategies to collaborate effectively with patients and families to achieve the desired health outcomes. One of them is individualizing patient education and treatment plans. Patients have diverse and unique needs, which require specific interventions for management. Nurses achieve these needs by individualizing them and embracing holistic plans of care that not only focuses on the disease but also factors influencing it. It is also important to individualize treatment plans for families to optimize their treatment outcomes, hence, effectiveness in healthcare (Leung et al., 2019). The other strategy is being culturally competent. Patients and families have different cultural backgrounds, values, beliefs, and practices. Nurses require adept knowledge and skills needed to provide culturally appropriate care to the patients that they serve. Culturally appropriate care empowers patients to play an active role in their treatment leading to improvements in the realization of treatment outcomes. The last strategy that promotes active collaboration with patients and families to achieve the desired health outcomes is shared-decision making. Shared-decision making is a practice in nursing that prioritizes the active role that families and patients play in the treatment process. Nurses prioritize the values, preferences, and needs of the patients and families in the decision-making process (Goodridge et al., 2018). The outcomes of utilizing shared decision-making in healthcare include patient empowerment, satisfaction, and reduction in healthcare costs.