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Week 3 - Person Centered Care
This week’s topic focused on caring and reflective practice in contemporary nursing.
In your initial response, provide a definition of what person-centred care means to you.
Describe how you will apply principles holistic nursing, cultural humility, and self-reflection
in your future role as a nurse practitioner.
Person-centered care to me is about focusing on the physical and mental needs of a
patient. As a nurse we learn to be medically competent at recognizing when our patient is in any
physical distress and take necessary actions needed to revive them. However, when a patient is in
any mental distress it is harder to recognize that and use that as means to provide care. Person-
centered care for me is about listening to a patients needs. So often we get all caught up in doing
what is medically correct, we forget that the patient knows his/her body better than we do and at
times listening to what the patient is feeling and how they are reacting to the regimen can
provide a better treatment plan. As Alicea-Planas (2016) says, “The narratives told by patients
are often complex, affected by various influences of the environment, and personal, which in
combination with nursing informs their individual healing journeys” (p. 162). This is pertinent
because in my experience as a new grad nurse I have realized how important it is to hear the
patient story from the patient, rather than just clinical notes from other clinicians. I have found
missing information that others had missed, because they didn’t take the time to get to know the
patient and the patient didn’t open up. For example, I recently took care of a patient with severe
knee pain and she was put on 0.5mg of IV Dilaudid every hour. After talking to the patient and
listening to her open up, I learned that her husband had died 5 years ago and due to previous
multiple DVT’s, she had been addicted to prescription pain meds. Currently she is 5 years sober
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Week 3 - Person Centered Care
This week’s topic focused on caring and reflective practice in contemporary nursing.
In your initial response, provide a definition of what person-centred care means to you.
Describe how you will apply principles holistic nursing, cultural humility, and self-reflection
in your future role as a nurse practitioner.
Person-centered care to me is about focusing on the physical and mental needs of a
patient. As a nurse we learn to be medically competent at recognizing when our patient is in any
physical distress and take necessary actions needed to revive them. However, when a patient is in
any mental distress it is harder to recognize that and use that as means to provide care. Person-
centered care for me is about listening to a patients needs. So often we get all caught up in doing
what is medically correct, we forget that the patient knows his/her body better than we do and at
times listening to what the patient is feeling and how they are reacting to the regimen can
provide a better treatment plan. As Alicea-Planas (2016) says, “The narratives told by patients
are often complex, affected by various influences of the environment, and personal, which in
combination with nursing informs their individual healing journeys” (p. 162). This is pertinent
because in my experience as a new grad nurse I have realized how important it is to hear the
patient story from the patient, rather than just clinical notes from other clinicians. I have found
missing information that others had missed, because they didn’t take the time to get to know the
patient and the patient didn’t open up. For example, I recently took care of a patient with severe
knee pain and she was put on 0.5mg of IV Dilaudid every hour. After talking to the patient and
listening to her open up, I learned that her husband had died 5 years ago and due to previous
multiple DVT’s, she had been addicted to prescription pain meds. Currently she is 5 years sober
This study source was downloaded by 100000827646477 from CourseHero.com on 07-15-2022 06:12:31 GMT -05:00
https://www.coursehero.com/file/68229509/Nr-500-Week-3-assigndocx/
