March 2016
Patient and family engagement is a strategy to enhance healthcare outcomes through strong clinician-patient partnerships. A new care delivery process, in which the patient is the driver of the healthcare team, is required to achieve optimal health. A summit partially funded by a seed grant from the Robert Wood Johnson Executive Nurse Fellow Alumni Foundation was held with interprofessional colleagues and patient representatives to identify needed clinical competencies and future practice changes. Recommended shifts in the care delivery process included a focus on patient strengths, including the patient as a valued team member, doing care with me[ and not to me,[ and considering all entities or providers including the patient, as equal partners.
Authors
Ellen Swartwout, PhD, RN, NEA-BC
Karen Drenkard, PhD, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
Kathy McGuinn, MSN, RN, CPHQ
Susan Grant, MS, RN, NEA-BC, FAAN
Ashley El-Zein, MPH, BA