Family Nurse Practitioner: Promoting Change
Strategies to communicate and educate stakeholders
I am currently employed as family nurse practitioner and am doing my DNP at a clinic under the supervision of a medical doctor. Communicating with patients is an essential component of treatment and care. If patients cannot engage in effective self-care at home, the treatment dispensed by the clinic will be of little value. The nurse must communicate clearly and seriously the full weight of the patient's condition and need for treatment. For example, if a patient is pre-diabetic, the nurse must make the patient understand what this means: that weight loss, diet and exercise modifications may be able to prevent full-blown diabetes from occurring. The fact that diabetes is not a disease that can easily be managed with drug treatments, although many new drugs and forms of glucose monitoring are available, should also be conveyed to the patient: pre-diabetes is still a serious condition. The nurse must work with the patient's schedule, budget, and knowledge when suggesting a feasible meal plan and exercise routine. Communication is much more than merely saying information: it means responding to the patient's unique needs.
As well as communicating with patients, another important stakeholder is that of the other healthcare providers existing within the organization. The nurse must be in contact with all elements of the patient's treatment team. The nurse's primary role is that of the patient's advocate who balances the patient's social, psychological, environmental, as well as physiological needs. Rather than simply treating the patient as a constellation of symptoms, the good nurse views the patient in a holistic fashion. This perspective is a necessary counterweight to a purely empirical and medical model. For example, a nurse might be aware that a doctor has a different paradigmatic analysis...
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