Practising personalised care
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Practising personalised care
As a nurse or doctor, you are working with many patients a day. Some patients will be repeat patients as they have long term health conditions. It is important to get the right balance of the clinical and non-clinical aspects of care. This will help support people to self-manage lifelong illnesses as well as make managing these patients easier on a day-to-day basis.
As a nurse or doctor putting patients’ needs first is important tailoring your care will support them and provide them with reassurance that everything is going to be okay. Many nurses and doctors strive to give great personalised care, but in some cases aren’t always able to do so. Barriers can include a lack of time or the way a pathway or service is structured. This past year has also included managing the demands of a pandemic for patients with covid.
Personalised care aims to support a more individualised approach to healthcare by reframing the relationship between patients, doctors and nurses. It promotes more balance between ‘what’s the matter with you?’, in a medical sense, and ‘what matters to you?’. It focuses on wellness as much as illness.
It gives us the opportunity to help a range of individuals, from people with complex needs through to those managing long term conditions, mental health issues or struggling with social issues which affect their health and wellbeing.
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