Preliminary Care Coordination Plan NURS FPX 4050 Assessment 1 Preliminary Care Coordination Plan

 

The importance of proper care coordination can be understood just by its definition. The progress that a previous doctor has made on the condition of a patient has to be efficiently relayed and delineated to the professional who is taking over. If the previous doctor fails to actively convey the status of the patient, the following professional can make changes, prescribe medications or perform activities that could have been previously performed, hence proving detrimental. Poor care coordination planning can lead to devastating results and can cost the patients financially as well as emotionally. 

NURS FPX 4050 Assessment 1 Preliminary Care Coordination Plan

In this paper, the purpose is to explain a health concern and then come up with some rational goals which can be achieved by the healthcare sector in the bid to improve the standard of care given to the patients suffering from said health concern. The community resources shall also be enumerated as a part of the solution. 

Stroke

Strokes are among the leading causes of death worldwide. When ranked in numbers, stroke falls in second place with a mortality rate of 5.5 million persons annually (Donkor, 2018). The danger of strokes is not only portrayed by the mortality rate, but also by the aftereffects manifested on those who survive it. 50% of all survivors were seen to become chronically disabled (Donkor, 2018).

Strokes are categorized into two major types. These include ischemic strokes and hemorrhagic strokes. The former is caused by the obstruction of the blood flow to a part of the brain. The interruption of the blood flow causes the loss of functioning. Hemorrhagic stroke, on the other hand, is caused by the bursting or rupturing of a blood vessel (Donkor, 2018).

NURS FPX 4050 Assessment 1 Preliminary Care Coordination Plan

Identification of Best Practices for Stroke

Thus concludes the identification of the health concern. When it comes to the best practices that can be applied for stroke patients, there are a few which are enumerated thus.

The patients who are seen to have a large vessel occlusion are to be examined for endovascular intervention (Khaki & Tadi, 2021). The patients who are suspected of having a severe ischemic stroke should be taken in for a neurological workup. 

Aside from the specific and particular measures taken for the care and management of strokes, antiplatelet and statins are the primary constituents that serve as the mainstay of the said management (Khaki & Tadi, 2021).

There are different other factors that play a part in the treatment and accommodation of a stroke patient. The cultural, social and psychosocial needs have to be incorporated and included in the treatment in order to facilitate a recovery process devoid of trauma and undeterred by mental discomfort. 

NURS FPX 4050 Assessment 1 Preliminary Care Coordination Plan

The needs referred to can include the accommodation and consideration of the various idiosyncrasies that come with a person’s cultural background etcetera. People of different cultures tend to react differently to treatments and the various stages of the recovery process.

Similarly, the needs from the social and psychosocial aspect can entail giving proper mental support to the patient during treatment. The presence of friends and family members can help along with the treatment, and this is a psychosocial dynamic because it relates to social factors viz. the people, and the psychological factors viz. the effects on the mental state of the patient. The importance of psychosocial factors in medications treatments is unequivocal (Xu, Mercury, Zhang, & Xu, 2008), hence the need to address these three areas.

Goals to be established to address Stroke Care

In order to make sure that the care for strokes is carried out properly, there are certain goals that can be established that the professionals or the institute have to meet. There are different strategies that have been put forward in a bid to improve the quality of the care given to stroke patients. By utilizing these strategies, we can formulate goals and objectives that can be set as a standard for all to meet. For example, a certain strategy put forward in a medical journal (Baatiema et al., 2020) was the computerization and digitization of medical practices. Utilizing this strategy, we can create a goal for the organization. It can be said that the hospital, or the professional, must digitally enter and save the information and important details of a certain stroke patient in order to facilitate better care coordination among professionals and transitions between different places.