Library resource guides: Perioperative medicine training resources: U4M11: Patient advocacy in the intraoperative period

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U4M10: Patient advocacy in the intraoperative period

Discusses situations when the patient requires an advocate and/or support in the operating suite prior to commencement of surgery, and/or in the recovery room.

Articles

Coulter A, Oldham J. Person-centred care: what is it and how do we get there?. Future Hosp J. 2016;3(2):114-116. Keywords: Person-centred; evidence-based; integrated care; personalisation; personlised care.
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This edition of Future Hospital Journal has a focus on person-centred care and explores the dimensions to partnership working at three different levels - consultation, service and system levels. In this introduction, the authors explain what they consider to be the essential components of person--centred care and what needs to be done to embed it at all levels of healthcare delivery. The changing attitudes of patients and the desire of most of them to receive personalised care based on their individual needs, preferences and lifestyles are explored. It is argued that a culture change is needed to make person-centred care the norm and that patients can help deliver this through a more meaningful involvement in medical research, training and education, service reconfiguration and commissioning.

Websites

Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Person-centred care.
Person-centred care is widely recognised as a foundation to safe, high-quality health care. It is care that respects and responds to the preferences, needs and values of patients and consumers.
Royal Commission of Inquiry into the Attack on Christchurch Mosques. Summary of Submissions: 8. What people told us about diversity and creating a more inclusive New Zealand.
New Zealand has been described as a “superdiverse” country. Superdiversity means “a substantial increase in the diversity of ethnic, minority and immigrant groups in a city or country.

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Additional resources

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Schwartz L. Is there an advocate in the house? The role of health care professionals in patient advocacy. J Med Ethics. 2002;28(1):37-40.
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It remains unclear what patient advocacy actually entails and what values it ought to embody. It will be useful to ascertain whether advocacy means supporting any decision the patient makes, or if the advocate can claim to represent the patient by asserting well-intentioned paternalistic claims on the patient's behalf. This is especially significant because the position of advocate brings with it certain privileges on the basis of of presumed insight into patient-perceived interests, namely, entitlement to take part in clinical decision making and increased professional standing. Three issues related to patient advocacy will be explored: are patient advocates necessary; what does advocacy entail, and who ought to represent patients in this way-arguments for and against prospective candidates will also be covered. The paper considers whether advocates are necessary since not only can they be dangerously paternalistic, but the salutary values advocacy embodies are already part of good professional health care.