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Nurse Practitioners and Patient Care

This research examines the relevance and importance of relationship-centered care to the work of nurse practitioners. The research will set forth a working definition of the term, in the context of emerging health-care-delivery praxis, and then discuss ways in which relationship-centered care can be used as the primary blueprint and guide for fostering improved patient adherence/compliance.

The term relationship-centered care has evolved in recent years to describe a modality of health-care-delivery protocols that focus on the psychological and social as well as medical needs, wants, concerns, and priorities of patients and their families rather than structuring health-care delivery around the priorities of the physician in charge of a case. Also called patient-centered care, in recent years the term of preference for the structure of health care being described appears to have changed for two reasons. First of all, use of the word patient in the term can have the effect of failing to include the idea that families as well as the individual under treatment may have a stake in patient outcomes. Secondly, there appears to have been some concern in the physician community that the "patient-centered" idea could be misconstrued as a medical-treatment protocol that relinquishes primary responsibility or control for core medical decisions to patients or families when control of a case actually is meant to remain firmly lodged with doctors (Williams & Others, 2000).

Patient adherence, also patient compliance, as the locution implies, is the name given to the action-oriented willingness of patients to abide by doctors' instructions, including but not limited to medication regimens and other activities and features of recovery and health maintenance. These instructions may involve the performance of specific actions by patients and caregivers, who may be professional nurse practitioners or family caregivers (Williams & Others, 2000).

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