Patient Empowerment on Self-care
Empower patients and family members in self-care management through health coaching
Type
Domain
Competency Area
Patient and/or Client Education and Health Promotion
Levels
Assist in provide health coaching to patients and/or caregivers for daily activities
Build trust and rapport with patients and caregivers
Assess patients’ and caregivers’ confidence to perform activities of daily living
Guide patients and caregivers on the techniques in performing self-care and use of devices
Provide information to stakeholders on patients’ progress in the self-care management plans
Provide positive reinforcements for improvement in performing self-care management
Support empowerment of patients in self-care management for routine cases
Assist patients in implementing self-care management plans
Determine cultural influences on health teaching
Identify barriers to change including lack of motivation skills or lack of resources
Advocate empowerment of patients in self-care management for routine and complex cases
Assess patients’ individual perceptions of health problems
Perform assessments of patient self-management needs
Design activities to enable patients to make
informed decisions about care and engage in healthy behaviours
Develop self- management care plans to empower patients to achieve self-regulation and self-management of treatment regimens associated with the conditions
Develop systems for the patients to monitor his or her own progress
Perform patient and caregiver education for complex cases
Review effectiveness of patient and caregiver training programmes
Mitigate key barriers to improve self-care management
Implement new or improved patient and caregiver education materials and methods of teaching
Supervise junior nurses in providing patient and caregiver education
Develop systems of communication and guidelines to provide patient advocacy
Develop self-care management approaches, frameworks or guidelines in collaboration with expert panels or professional organisations Provide guidance in development of patient education resources
Create platforms for periodic evaluation, feedback, and revision of patients’ self-care management plans
Collaborate with key stakeholders and patients to align and improve the quality of patient and caregiver education provided
Evaluate technologies to support and/or adopt for self-care management
Coach nurses in innovative behavioural science concepts and strategies to empower patients in self-care management
Collaborate with both internal and external parties to enable patients to manage their conditions and treatment regimes effectively