Collaborative Care Planning in Acute Inpatient

Addressing Consumer Challenges in Collaborative Care Planning: A Critical Evaluation Student’s Name Institution of Affiliation Course Instructor Name Date Addressing Consumer Challenges in Collaborative Care Planning: A Critical Evaluation Over the past several years, mental health care has begun to take on an even greater focus on consumer-directed and participation-based methodologies concerning treatment planning. One of these is care planning, which involves the consumer in making decisions concerning their care. Nonetheless, Reid et al. (2018) explicate in their online study regarding the consumers' views within acute inpatient wards several barriers hinder the successful implementation of collaborative care planning. These are the challenges that this paper critically assesses and offers a detailed solution anchored on best practice mental health management paradigms such as trauma-informed and recovery approaches. The solutions are also underlined by literature covering contemporary research concerning consumer engagement, communication, and empowerment in mental health care. Contending with Consumer Issues According to Reid et al. (2018), there are several antecedents to teamwork that consumers experience in acute mental health care, mainly when offered a care plan. One of the most severe problems is the perceived lack of control regarding care planning. In most acute inpatient care, healthcare providers make decisions on behalf of the consumers without commensurate consumer involvement. Therefore, consumers may feel helpless, inconsequential, or ignored in their management process. Such independence from the decision inconveniences the consumer and diminishes ownership of their recovery process. Another problem is inadequate transmission of information between the elements of the healthcare supply chain and the consumers. According to Reid et al. (2018) study, the consumers show a lack of listening and understanding on the part of the health care service provider, which creates isolation and distrust. Moreover, consumers complained that this team was all over the place, explaining unsystematic care due to constant staffing changes. Lack of qualified staff stability also implies that consumers are served by different clinicians, which hampers the flow of consumer treatment, thus leading to non-integrated services being provided to consumers. This inconsistency undermines consumers' ability to develop trustful relationships with carers and hinders their confidence in caring. According to Reid et al. (2018), the consumers' life experiences central to the recovery discourse remained overlooked when care planning was conducted. Neglect on the consumer's history and choice display will limit the potential of creating relevant and unique care plans. Due to these challenges, a strategic framework that targets and supports increased consumer engagement, communication, healthcare process continuity, and consumer perspective acknowledgment is required. Another area that needs a further increase in the consumers' activity is to ensure that care consumers actively participate in all stages of care planning. The latter implies requiring consumers to voice their opinions and choices about products and services, and their recovery process. Open-ended questions can be employed in research by healthcare providers arguing that they allow consumers to express themselves without prejudice and the kind of care they want. Also, the possibility to set personal goals aligned with the care plan but not focused only on professional goals and outcomes should be encouraged to the consumers. Another possible approach is regularly organizing meetings of the care teams with the consumers to guarantee that the identified care plan has been adjusted to the consumer's requirements and choices. Enhancing communication is also essential in addressing issues with developing trusting transparency ca...