[Nursing 2220A/B] - Final Exam Guide - Everything you need to know! (28 pages long)
29 Nov 2016
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Person-centered care is about practitioners and the health care institution holding the patient"s. Dr. myra levine, another early nurse theorist, used the term patient-centered nursing care to refer to individualized nursing or care that was tailored to the unique needs and concerns of each patient. Patient-centered or individualized care required that nurses know their patients as unique human beings in order to be able to promote their recovery and help them return to a better state of health. It is important to note that person-centered care can also be practiced from a deficit lens when the practitioner solely focuses on problems or weaknesses without considering or balancing the problems and deficits with the person"s strengths. The appeal of person-centered care is that it brings the person to the forefront. The person"s problem is understood within the context of his circumstances, past experiences, relationships, different environments, and lifeworlds.
