Integrating caring into patient-centered care through interprofessional education and ethics: The Caring Project

Area of Science:

• Healthcare Ethics
• Patient-Centered Care
• Interprofessional Education

Background:

• Healthcare advances necessitate safeguarding the humanistic, caring aspects of patient care.
• A gap exists in integrating compassionate care with technical medical progress.
• The need for patient-centered approaches is increasingly recognized in clinical settings.

Purpose of the Study:

• To construct and present a Patient-Centered Caring model.
• To describe an interprofessional educational project implementing this model.
• To explore the ethical dimensions of patient-centered and interprofessional care.

Main Methods:

• Development of a Patient-Centered Caring model with three constructs: customer service, illness experience, and trauma-informed care.
• Implementation of an interprofessional educational project in an inpatient psychiatric setting.
• Analysis of the project through ethical lenses to understand patient-centered care and interprofessional competence.

Main Results:

• The Patient-Centered Caring model integrates service delivery, patient experience, and trauma-informed practices.
• The educational project successfully engaged faculty, staff, and administrators in understanding illness and trauma-informed care.
• Ethical analysis provided insights into patient-centered care and interprofessional competency development.

Conclusions:

• The Patient-Centered Caring model offers a framework for humanistic healthcare delivery.
• Interprofessional education is crucial for implementing patient-centered and trauma-informed care.
• Ethical considerations are vital for advancing patient-centered care and interprofessional competence in psychiatric settings.