L1: Healthcare Process

• Healthcare: Refers to efforts that are made to maintain or restore physical,mental, or emotional well-being of a client/patient especially by trained and licensed professional
• Healthcare Process: Refers to a plan of actions or measures, and are carried out by a trained and licensed professional to maintain & restore the well-being of the patient.
• Healthcare Process:

  • Aim to promote good health conditions and help patients/ clients cope up with health problems
  • Guide the healthcare provider in his/her approach to individuals, families and communities
• Principles of Healthcare:

  • goal-oriented
  • client-centered
  • scientific
  • problem-oriented
• goal-oriented: Restoration/Promotion of health & wellbeing
• scientific: Follows a well-established process/principles in dealing with health problems
• Client-centered: Responsive to the client’s/patient’s needs
• Problem-oriented: Focuses on the patient’s specific health problems whichrequire immediate attention
• Characteristics of Healthcare:

  • Client-centered
  • Interpersonal
  • Collaborative
  • Dynamic and Cyclical
  • Requires critical thinking
• Phases of Healthcare Process:

  • Assess
  • Plan
  • Implement
  • Evaluate
• Assessment:

  • Establishes a database about the client’s response to health concerns and illness and the ability to manage health needs.
  • Helps to objectively identify the client’s: needs & concerns, health problems, health risks and promotion of healthy lifestyle
  • Helps determine the best possible interventions to employ to minimize risks and maximize the patient’s quality of life.
• Assessment

  • What data is to be collected?
  • It involves collecting, organizing, validating and documenting client’s data.
  • Data Collection: Gathering of information on client’s healthstatus, Components: Health Interviews, Physical Exam & Observation
  • Data Validation: Double checking or verifying of the collected information to confirm its accuracy & authenticity.
• Planning

  • How to manage the problem?
  • Setting of measurable and achievable short- and long-range goals for his or her patient
  • Purpose: Develop an individualized care plan that specifies client’s goals/desired outcomes, and related healthcare interventions
• Planning

  1. Prioritized Problems
  2. Goals
  3. Treatment Plan
• Planning Objectives:

  • Establishment of Priorities
  • Development of SMART goals
  • Establishment of Expected outcomes
  • Identify interventions
  • Document the care plan
• Implementation:

  • Putting Plan into Action
  • is the stage wherein the plan is carried out utilizing indigenous resources in the community setting
  • Carrying out or delegating the care plan
  • Documenting/Recording the implemented healthcare interventions& patient’s response to those actions
  • This aims to communicate/coordinate every measure of care done to the patient & his/her response to each measure with his or her family, significant others & healthcare team members
• Evaluation:

  • Did the plan work?
  • Measuring the degree to which the set goals/outcomes have been achieved.
  • Identifying factors that positively and negatively influence goal achievements
• Evaluation:

  • Goals --> Evaluation
• 4 Dimensions of Evaluation

  • Effectiveness
  • Efficiency
  • Appropriateness
  • Adequacy
• effectiveness: is the intervention achieving its objectives?
• efficiency: how well are resources being used?
• appropriateness: Did the intervention benefit the patient?
• adequacy: did the intervention sufficiently deliver the planned measure of care?
• Evaluation:

  Purposes:

  • to determine whether to continue, to modify, or to terminate the plan of care.

  if the evaluation determines a lack of progress toward the established goals:

  • The health care plan is revised or modified
  • Revisions are developed by beginning the process anew
• Purposes of Healthcare Process

  1. Identify a client’s health status
  2. Identify actual or potential healthcare problems or needs
  3. Establish plans to meet the identifiedneeds.
  4. Deliver/Execute specific care interventions to meet identified needs
  5. Establish a database on the client’s

  • Health status
  • Health Concerns
  • Response to Illness
  • Ability to manage health care needs