Patients in the Care Team or the Patient’s Care Team? Addressing Language, Power, Ownership, and the Myths of Patient-centeredness
Learning Objectives
- Engage in self-reflection on why, and how, switching between our dual identities of care recipient and care provider impacts power and control in interprofessional care.
- Analyze how the language used by the interprofessional team reflects personal or professional identity, power, and authority
- Appraise the myths of patient-centeredness.
- Identity strategies to realign the place of the healthcare team in the life course, health, wellbeing, and decision-making of individuals.
This seminar addresses the concepts of power, engagement, participation, and ownership in healthcare. It challenges health professional’s assumptions about patient-centeredness, shared decision-making, and the notion of placing the patient at the center of the interprofessional care team.
Facilitators and participants will reflect on the language they use, the identity/identities they assume and examine how such professional norms can shift power and ownership in their encounters with patients. Facilitators will offer strategies to realign the place of the healthcare team in the life course, health, wellbeing, and decision-making of individuals. We will challenge the myths of patient-centeredness, proposing that current concepts of person-centered or patient-centered healthcare are unclear and do not effectively describe the distinctive and interacting roles of patients and providers, or what should be expected of the healthcare team. We propose that a truly person-centered approach will entail an active and deliberate change in healthcare education and practice culture, power dynamics, and ownership.
The seminar will be highly interactive with participants engaging in lively cross-disciplinary learning in small break-out sessions and larger debriefs. It’s designed to stimulate self-reflection, respect different perspectives, and generate in-depth, productive discussion. Collation of themes from group discussions and feedback will be conducted via Mentimeter.
This seminar is focused on the conference theme of Client/Patient/Family and Community-Engagement and Co-creation of Practice and Education. It presents a different model of community and patient engagement. More specifically, it questions the notion of patient engagement, flipping the focus to how interprofessional teams engage with the patient rather than how the patient engages with the team. An important cultural shift in the power relationship and ownership of care.
Logistics
- Zoom breakout rooms
- Group facilitators and recorders
- The presentation will use Mentimeter to gather responses from participants and groups.
In support of improving patient care, this activity is planned and implemented by The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education Office of Interprofessional Continuing Professional Development (OICPD). The OICPD is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
As a Jointly Accredited Provider, the OICPD is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The OICPD maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive continuing education credits.
This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credit for learning and change.
Physicians: The National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education designates this live activity for AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.
Physician Assistants: The American Academy of Physician Assistants (AAPA) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME.
Nurses: Participants will be awarded contact hours of credit for attendance at this workshop.
Nurse Practitioners: The American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Certification Program (AANPCP) accepts credit from organizations accredited by the ACCME and ANCC.
Pharmacists and Pharmacy Technicians: This activity is approved for contact hours.
Social Workers: As a Jointly Accredited Organization, the National Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. The National Center maintains responsibility for this course. Social workers completing this course receive continuing education credits.
IPCE: This activity was planned by and for the healthcare team, and learners will receive Interprofessional Continuing Education (IPCE) credits for learning and change