solved 1) Patients/families with chronic illness are often the ‘experts’ with

1) Patients/families with chronic illness are often the ‘experts’ with regards to their care. Explore at least two approaches the nurse could use to approach patient/family behaviors that do not facilitate optimal outcomes? How can working effectively with the ‘expert’ patient/family serve to provide individualized, patient and family centered care?
2) How might effective coordination of care impact the chronic illness experience? For the individual patient/family? What can individual nurses do to facilitate improved transitions of care? How might effective coordination of care impact health care facilities? How might effective coordination of care impact fiscal costs?
3) Larsen states, “The differences are vast between caring for a person with an acute illness on a short-term basis and caring for a person with a chronic condition over the long haul” (p. 11).  Discuss what you think that means.  Then, explore individualized, patient/family centered care as it relates to developing/implementing a plan of care with a patient/family living with chronic illness.  Why do you think individuals / families are more likely to adhere to an individualized plan?
Resource: Winter, C. A. (2013). Rural nursing: Concepts, theory, and practice (4th ed.). Spring Publishing Company (available free through the SMSU McFarland Library e-books: http://ssuproxy.mnpals.net/login?url=http://search… w&AN=547705&scope=site.if the link does not work for you please try to get a hard copy of Winter 2013 as much as possible because all the discussion topics are assigned to those readings.