What are effective ways to involve patients and family in respiratory management?

2 Strategies for PFE in respiratory management

Case managers can promote PFE in respiratory management through several strategies, such as assessing patient and family preferences, providing clear and relevant information, encouraging questions and feedback, empowering decision-making and goal-setting, supporting self-management at home and in the community, and engaging in regular follow-up and evaluation. These strategies involve understanding the needs, goals, and values of the patient and family regarding their respiratory condition and treatment options, educating them on their diagnosis, prognosis, medications, devices, and self-care techniques using plain language and visual aids, respecting their choices and autonomy, providing resources and tools to aid in self-management, and adjusting the care plan as needed.

3 Benefits of PFE in respiratory management

The implementation of PFE in respiratory management can provide a range of benefits for patients, families, and health care providers. Patients may experience an improvement in symptoms, exacerbations, hospitalizations, mortality, and quality of life. In addition, patient satisfaction and loyalty may increase while complaints and litigation decrease. Family outcomes may also benefit with reduced stress, anxiety, depression, and caregiver burden as well as improved coping skills and social support. Health care providers could experience increased job satisfaction, morale, and retention while burnout and turnover are reduced. Finally, health care system outcomes can improve with reduced health care utilization, costs, and waste as well as improved quality, safety, and efficiency.

4 Challenges of PFE in respiratory management

PFE in respiratory management can be hindered by several challenges, such as a lack of time, resources, and training for health care providers to engage patients and families. Similarly, there may be a lack of awareness, knowledge, skills, or confidence from patients and families to engage in respiratory management. Additionally, there may be a lack of trust or rapport between patients, families, and health care providers or between different health care providers involved in respiratory management. Furthermore, there could be a lack of access to respiratory management services, programs, or devices for patients and families. Finally, there may be a lack of coordination or integration of respiratory management across different settings or levels of care.

7 Here’s what else to consider

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