{"id":9162,"date":"2017-12-01T12:51:38","date_gmt":"2017-12-01T11:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.efnweb.be\/?p=9162"},"modified":"2017-12-01T12:51:38","modified_gmt":"2017-12-01T11:51:38","slug":"patient-solidarity-day-patient-empowerment-in-people-centred-care","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=9162","title":{"rendered":"Patient Solidarity Day &#8211; \u201cPatient Empowerment in people-centred care\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The EFN is committed to support and advocate for strategies and policies placing \u201cpatient empowerment\u201d at the centre of people-centred care, seeing patients as persons who are more than their illness. <a href=\"https:\/\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/EFN-Position-Paper-Patient-Empowerment-Final-14-10-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patient empowerment<\/a> enables patients and professionals to work in partnership, and nurses play a crucial role in addressing unmet needs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Patient empowerment is an essential condition for promoting better quality of care, enhanced patient safety and a paramount concept for modernising healthcare systems in the EU. Nurses, through regular sustained direct patient contact, appropriate support, and health coaching, can make a significant contribution to developing patient empowerment in a systematic way, as being part of a culture in <a href=\"https:\/\/efn.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/EFN-Position-Paper-on-Value-Based-Health-and-Social-Ecosystem1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">value based healthcare systems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To achieve a culture of patient empowerment, the EFN Members believe there is a need to:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Optimise patient care through joined decision-making;<\/li>\n<li>Make patient empowerment a central plank of future European health legislation;<\/li>\n<li>Develop patient empowerment mechanisms focussing on Cross-European standards;<\/li>\n<li>Embed patient empowerment within the European education frameworks for health care professionals.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Patient empowerment needs to be a culture within value based healthcare systems to be implemented with the support of an empowered nursing workforce!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EFN is committed to support and advocate for strategies&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6865,"url":"https:\/\/efn.eu\/?p=6865","url_meta":{"origin":9162,"position":0},"title":"International Nurses&#8217; Day 2015 &#8211; &#8220;Nurses: A Force for Patient\/Citizens Empowerment&#8221;","author":"efn efn","date":"May 11, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Thanks to the increasing focus on patient empowerment, political leaders become more aware of the vital role nurses play in empowering patients and citizens in the process of continuity of care. eHealth services start playing a crucial role in integrated care. 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