Question

How can you be invited to the table to be an active participant in decision making that influences your practice?

Answer 1

• Offer advice and guidance—using evidence-based patient decision aids—tailored to each patient's' specific needs and circumstances.
• Discuss each patient's options with him or her, making sure to come to a mutual decision.
• Give your patients access to their medical records.
• allows patients to engage in a deliberative, communicative process with their clinicians,
• Identify the decision. To make a decision, you must first identify the problem you need to solve or the question you need to answer.
• To get the decision that best serves the patient, it is necessary to have the patient informed and involved in the decision-making process
• consequence of giving patients an informed voice is that they might not always choose the safest, most effective, or most cost-effective options
• Suggestion box. Another way to help engage your workers is by encouraging them to suggest changes that should be made to the setting
• supports an individual's right to participate in the activities and relationships of everyday life as independently as possible
• Taking control of their own care and support helps an individual build their identity and self-esteem.