Operationalizing person-centered care practices in long-term care: recommendations from a “Resident for a Day” experience

As the senior population continues to age, long-term care is positioned for growth and care recipients are demanding more person-centered care. While long-term care leaders may understand and believe in the value of person-centered care, sometimes operationalizing practices to ensure its delivery ca...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:5767af978714433fb0f9df775db12eb22021-11-15T04:22:14ZOperationalizing person-centered care practices in long-term care: recommendations from a “Resident for a Day” experience2372-0247https://doaj.org/article/5767af978714433fb0f9df775db12eb22017-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://pxjournal.org/journal/vol4/iss3/13https://doaj.org/toc/2372-0247As the senior population continues to age, long-term care is positioned for growth and care recipients are demanding more person-centered care. While long-term care leaders may understand and believe in the value of person-centered care, sometimes operationalizing practices to ensure its delivery can be challenging. Using an ethnographic approach, over three years, 159 long-term care administrator-in-training practicum students each lived as a resident for 24 hours in a nursing home. Following the experience, using the Picker Institute’s framework, each participant identified and justified an Always Experience® – an optimal experience they believed should routinely occur for every long-term care resident. They then developed an action plan that identified several specific operational practices and measures to ensure that Always Experiences® could always occur for residents. A thematic analysis of these Always Experience® action plans was conducted. As a result, six amalgam exemplar Always Experience® action plans – for Admissions, Care Planning, Care, Dining, Activities, and Responsiveness – with desired objectives, specific operational practices, and relevant measures to evaluate outcomes were developed. These easy-to-implement action plans can help long-term care administrators put necessary practices into place to ensure they are consistently delivering high quality, patient-centered care to long-term care residents.Jennifer Johs-ArtisensiThe Beryl Institutearticlepatient experienceperson-centered careculture changeresident perceptionslong-term care administrationnursing homestaff behaviorethnographyMedicine (General)R5-920Public aspects of medicineRA1-1270ENPatient Experience Journal (2017)
institution DOAJ
collection DOAJ
language EN
topic patient experience
person-centered care
culture change
resident perceptions
long-term care administration
nursing home
staff behavior
ethnography
Medicine (General)
R5-920
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
spellingShingle patient experience
person-centered care
culture change
resident perceptions
long-term care administration
nursing home
staff behavior
ethnography
Medicine (General)
R5-920
Public aspects of medicine
RA1-1270
Jennifer Johs-Artisensi
Operationalizing person-centered care practices in long-term care: recommendations from a “Resident for a Day” experience
description As the senior population continues to age, long-term care is positioned for growth and care recipients are demanding more person-centered care. While long-term care leaders may understand and believe in the value of person-centered care, sometimes operationalizing practices to ensure its delivery can be challenging. Using an ethnographic approach, over three years, 159 long-term care administrator-in-training practicum students each lived as a resident for 24 hours in a nursing home. Following the experience, using the Picker Institute’s framework, each participant identified and justified an Always Experience® – an optimal experience they believed should routinely occur for every long-term care resident. They then developed an action plan that identified several specific operational practices and measures to ensure that Always Experiences® could always occur for residents. A thematic analysis of these Always Experience® action plans was conducted. As a result, six amalgam exemplar Always Experience® action plans – for Admissions, Care Planning, Care, Dining, Activities, and Responsiveness – with desired objectives, specific operational practices, and relevant measures to evaluate outcomes were developed. These easy-to-implement action plans can help long-term care administrators put necessary practices into place to ensure they are consistently delivering high quality, patient-centered care to long-term care residents.
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title Operationalizing person-centered care practices in long-term care: recommendations from a “Resident for a Day” experience
title_short Operationalizing person-centered care practices in long-term care: recommendations from a “Resident for a Day” experience
title_full Operationalizing person-centered care practices in long-term care: recommendations from a “Resident for a Day” experience
title_fullStr Operationalizing person-centered care practices in long-term care: recommendations from a “Resident for a Day” experience
title_full_unstemmed Operationalizing person-centered care practices in long-term care: recommendations from a “Resident for a Day” experience
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