In this assessment, you will apply evidence-based practice and personalized care concepts to ensure quality care and improve the health of a single patient. The concept map that you will create is an example of a visual tool that you can use for patient and family education.
Create a concept map graphic
Develop a graphical concept map for the patient based on the best available evidence for treating your patient’s health, economic, and cultural needs.
Organization:
Use the following headings for your Diabetes Patient Concept Map assessment:
Concept Map.
Patient Needs Analysis.
Value and Relevance of the Evidence.
Proposed Criteria for Patient Outcome Evaluation.
Patient and Family Communication Plan.
Length: Your concept map should fit on one page (possibly a horizontal layout)
Write a 2-4 page narrative on the patient scenario attached. Base your report on the information provided in the case study and your own research of 3-5 evidence-based resources APA style.
Develop a narrative (2–4 pages) for your concept map.
Analyze the needs of a patient and his or her family to ensure that the intervention in the concept map will be relevant and appropriate for their beliefs, values, and lifestyle.
Consider how your patient’s economic situation and relevant environmental factors may have contributed to your patient’s current condition or could affect future health.
Consider how your patient’s culture or family should inform your concept map.
Determine the value and relevance of the evidence you used as the basis of your concept map.
Explain why your evidence is valuable and relevant to your patient’s case.
Explain why each piece of evidence is appropriate for the health issue you are addressing and for the unique situation of your patient and the family.
Propose relevant and measurable criteria for evaluating the outcomes the patient needs to achieve.
Explain why your proposed criteria are appropriate and useful measures of success.
Explain how you will communicate specific aspects of the concept map to your patient and the family in an ethical, culturally sensitive, and inclusive way. Ensure that your strategies:
Promote honest communications.
Facilitate sharing only the information you are required and permitted to share.
Are mindful of your patient’s culture.
Enable you to make complex medical terms and concepts understandable to your patient and his or her family, regardless of language, abilities, or educational level.
