During my healthcare profession, I often served as a patient advocate, either knowingly or sub-consciously while performing my routine duties. I took satisfaction in responding to patient needs, guiding someone to the right person or department, and seeing a positive outcome. But I never realized how important a patient advocate can be until I became a patient myself.
Martin Luther King, Jr. said….”I have a dream…..” When this statement was proposed to a classroom of adolescents, one student responded… that she/he had a dream that parents will not mentally or verbally abuse their kids.
It was May 1980; nursing graduation day and the reciting of the Nightingale Pledge, that includes, “I will devote myself to the welfare of those committed in my care.”
It is a paradisematic country, in which roasted parts of sentences fly into your mouth. Even the all-powerful Pointing has.
The world is getting more complex everyday and the healthcare system globally, remains dynamic and forever changing.
The field of Psychiatry carries with it a world filled with an ever-increasing number of challenges when it comes to providing the necessary guidance required in assisting any one individual diagnosed with a mental illness. It can become even more so difficult, not only for this population of focus, but even more so for the healthcare community of doctors, therapists, social workers, case managers, and in nurses, themselves, who have been working so passionately to assist in humanity’s plight for peace, clarity, and calm within our everyday lives.
The Shared Medical Appointment (S.M.A.) Model has been suggested as a strategy to improve patient self-management and clinical outcomes in chronic care.
