02 Feb Note: Remember to not disclose

Unit 3 discussion

Individualizing Care in Your Practice or Organization

This discussion will focus on professional discourse about your personal experiences and observations of individualizing care for patients in your practice and care settings.

For this discussion, please address the following:

Describe an experience you have had working to individualize care for a patient (or describe a time in your care setting that you observed care being individualized for a patient).

Briefly explain patient’s considerations that were addressed as the care was becoming individualized.

How were the patient’s other health concerns taken into account?

How were the patient’s culture and beliefs taken into account?

How were the patient’s economic and daily environmental realities taken into account?

What, if any, ethical considerations were there for working with this individual patient?

Reflect on things you would have suggested doing differently, if you could revisit that patient’s case again.

Note: Remember to not disclose any confidential patient or organizational information in your post. Also, citing outside sources is optional for this discussion.

Response Guidelines

Review the responses of your peers and then choose one peer to whom you would like to respond. If possible, try to respond to someone who has not received a response on their post yet. In your response address one of the following:

Comment on what you have done, or observed being done, in a situation similar to that described in your peer’s post.

Propose an additional strategy or consideration that could have helped achieve positive outcomes for the case that your peer presented.

Resources

Discussion Participation Scoring Guide.