Discussion: Patient Preferences and Decision Making
Discussion: Discussion: Patient Preferences and Decision Making
Changes in culture and technology have resulted in patient populations that are often well informed and educated, even before consulting or considering a healthcare need delivered by a health professional. Fueled by this, health professionals are increasingly involving patients in treatment decisions. However, this often comes with challenges, as illnesses and treatments can become complex.
What has your experience been with patient involvement in treatment or healthcare decisions?
In this Discussion, you will share your experiences and consider the impact of patient involvement (or lack of involvement). You will also consider the use of a patient decision aid to inform best practices for patient care and healthcare decision making.
To Prepare:
Review the Resources and reflect on a time when you experienced a patient being brought into (or not being brought into) a decision regarding their treatment plan.
Review the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute’s Decision Aids Inventory at https://decisionaid(dot)ohri(dot)ca/.
Choose “For Specific Conditions,” then Browse an alphabetical listing of decision aids by health topic.
NOTE: To ensure compliance with HIPAA rules, please DO NOT use the patient’s real name or any information that might identify the patient or organization/practice.
By Day 3 of Week 11
Post a brief description of the situation you experienced and explain how incorporating or not incorporating patient preferences and values impacted the outcome of their treatment plan. Be specific and provide examples. Then, explain how including patient preferences and values might impact the trajectory of the situation and how these were reflected in the treatment plan. Finally, explain the value of the patient decision aid you selected and how it might contribute to effective decision making, both in general and in the experience you described. Describe how you might use this decision aid inventory in your professional practice or personal life.
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Discussion: Patient Preferences and Decision Making
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Patient preference and healthcare decisions
I had a patient diagnosed with diabetes who wanted to involve more self-management and self-care practices, but he did not follow through with this. At the time, there were challenges promoting diabetes self-management education. The patient believed it was easier to improve his health outcomes if he maintained self-care practices without involving health practitioners. The patient was admitted from diabetes complications, and while he wanted more knowledge, it appeared that he had made up his mind on what he believed was the choice of nutrition and being more active. However, he did not have all the information, even as he knew self-care was likely more important. Yet, the patient failed to use self-care practices, and there is technology to support blood monitoring at any time.
Decisions regarding their treatment plan
There are different options to control and maintain blood sugar to the normal levels in the treatment plan. One decision tool focuses on using a second medicine to control blood glucose among patients with type 2 diabetes in adults: controlling your blood glucose by taking a second medicine. Understanding of diabetes self-management and a focus on improving in diabetes management, but interventions are then tailored to meet the patient's needs. There is also a focus on empowering the patient, which is helpful as the patient is involved in decision-making. There is likely to be the self-directed change in patients when they are involved in decision-making. Patient education to improve self-management and self-care practices made it easier for the patient to focus on patient monitoring.
Shared decision-making can significantly improve diabetes self-management if the patient focuses more on self-care practices to monitor their health and work closely with the health care team. Kon et al. (2016) argued that shared decision-making was helpful to improve patient outcomes, where health professionals work closely together with the patients. However, they also argued that decision-making should be a collaborative proces...