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Client-centered care: a major challenge for health care organisations

Client-centered care: a major challenge for health care organisations. This presentation. Why client-centered care (c.c.c.)? What is c.c.c. (from a client perspective)? Is it just a skill or is it more? Instruments to support c.c.c. Challenges for the professional. Why client-centered care?.

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Client-centered care: a major challenge for health care organisations

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  1. Client-centered care: a major challenge for health care organisations

  2. This presentation • Why client-centered care (c.c.c.)? • What is c.c.c. (from a client perspective)? • Is it just a skill or is it more? • Instruments to support c.c.c. • Challenges for the professional

  3. Why client-centered care? • The ‘modern’ client does not automatically agree with everything the professionals says • The client is becoming consumer • Autonomy is (in western cultures) a basic right • Economic motives: better match between needs and services: more efficiency

  4. What is client-centered care? • Diffuse/complex terminology: • Client-centered • Client-directed • Client-driven • Demand-oriented / tailored care • I prefer to speak about ‘client-centered’ or ‘demand-oriented’

  5. What is client-centered care? • A qualitative study among experienced chronic patients (patient informants of a large patient organisation) • Question: what is the perspective of experienced patients and informal caregivers regarding demand-oriented interaction with nurses and nurses’ aids? • Methods: focus group interviews, observations, grounded theory approach

  6. Recognition as a basis • Central patient values: uniqueness, comprehensiveness, continuity of life, fairness, autonomy, equality, partnership and independence • Feelings of recognition related to these values emerged as a key-concept of care tailored to the patient’s demand

  7. Definition of c.c.c. • Demand-oriented or client-centered care is care based on the wishes and experienced needs of the client, is defined in dialogue between client and professional, and is decided upon by the client

  8. Is it ‘just a skill’ or is it more? • It has to do with skills: • Needs assessment, communication skills • Empathy • It has to do with knowledge: • Empowerment • Patient rights • Self determination • But: it is more  it is about a fundamentally different role of the professional

  9. From ‘helper’ to ‘ally’ • A paradigm shift? • Organisations and services will (dramatically) change

  10. Examples of instruments • COPM (occupational therapy) • IPPA (provision of assistive technology) • Client Centered Process Evaluation (occupational therapy) • Competence scale (nursing)

  11. IPPA • Individually prioritised problem assessment • Developed in a European project • Very simple in use: • Client identifies most important problems related to activities for which he wants an AT device and gives weights the these problems • After 3 months problems are evaluated • Still ‘young’ instrument with promising validity and reliability

  12. CCPE • Client centered care process evaluation • Developed by a research team in Manitoba, Canada • Consists of five parts: • Self evaluation questionnaire for the professional • Questionnaire to evaluate environmental factors influencing the work of the professional • Client questionnaire • ‘reflective’ form • Suggestions for strategies to improve your work

  13. Still ‘young’: only very first experiences • We are planning a (multiprofessional) study to test the instruments and to gather experiences  anyone interested in cooperation?

  14. Care in dialogue competence scale • Based on the results of the qualitative study I discussed earlier: to what extend are central patient values recognised? • Consists of a 40 item questionnaire for professionals and ‘mirror’ questionnaire for clients • Still under construction: only used in one study. Will be published later this year

  15. Challenges • It is difficult and more than just skills • It requires another role: the professional as ‘ally’ • Empowerment • Collaboration • Client involvement • Dialogue

  16. Challenges 2 • Recognition of patient values is essential • There are some instruments that may help, but most are still under development • Tensions with other values • Ethics / values • Professional standards / protocols • Legal frameworks • Organisational barriers • It must be ‘in the veins of the organisation’

  17. New competencies • The professional goes through the care process in dialogue with the client, starting from the client perspective and on the basis of his/her professional expertise. The professional is able to handle the expected tensions and conflicts • The professional supports the client in formulating his/her needs and demands with respect to the whole care process and actively stimulates selfdetermination by the client • The professional seeks alternatives when personal, professional or organisational barriers appear

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