C158 - Organizational Leadership & Interprofessional Team Development.

C158 - Organizational Leadership & Interprofessional Team Development. Organizational Leadership & Interprofessional Team Development Patient-and-family-centered care is a complex concept that has been incorporated by many leading healthcare organizations as the universal gold standard when providing safe, effective, and quality care. By utilizing the concept of patient-and-family centered care, healthcare providers and patients build a rapport as equal partners in all healthcare related decision making. According to Sharkey and Lefebre (2017), patient-and-family-centered care incorporates elements of “the whole person,” by “incorporating the elements [of care] that are most important to them on their well-being journey: their families, their lifestyle, their values and their health goals.”