important components
Respond to your colleagues and offer alternative views on the impact of patient preferences on treatment plans or outcomes, or the potential impact of patient decision aids on situations like the one shared.
At least 2 references in each peer responses!
Evidence-based practice (EBP) is embedded in the culture of healthcare. It involves the integration of three equally important components: researched evidence, clinical expertise, and patient preferences and values (Laureate Education, 2018). As healthcare and technology evolves, patients are becoming more engaged in their healthcare decisions.
Patient Involvement in Decision Making
In my current workplace, children’s psychiatric facility, clients are or given the opportunity to be involved in their care consistently. Within 72 hours of admission they are involved in a master’s treatment plan meeting and monthly, they attend a staffing. The staffing consists of transdisciplinary clinicians: psychiatrist, nurse, direct care aide, teacher, individual and family therapist, and parent/guardian. My recent experience/situation involved a 13 year old female patient who was optimistic and goal-oriented on being discharged from the facility before her one year length of stay (inpatient and transitioned to residential). During her monthly staffing, she would come prepared to take notes on the feedback she received from each clinician and her mom. She documented areas needed for improvement and developed her own chart of progress/plan (typically done by the treatment team of clinicians in extreme cases) for staff to initial, if daily goal was met, at the end of each shift.
