Supporting Self Care in Primary Care"Self care is about people's attitudes and lifestyle, as well as what they can do to take care of themselves when they have a health problem. Supporting self care is about increasing people's confidence and self esteem, enabling them to take decisions about the sensible care of their health and avoiding triggering health problems. Although many people are already practising self care to some extent, there is a great deal more that they can do." - Ruth Chambers, Gill Wakley and Alison Blenkinsopp, in the Preface. Designed around the Department of Health's Working in Partnership Programme, this book is full of easy-to-implement advice for everyday use, promoting a positive approach to self care and demonstrating how smoothly it can be introduced and undertaken. "Supporting Self Care in Primary Care" encourages interactive professional learning and development, both individually and within a team, and highlights the importance and benefits of self care in the workplace. It is a self-contained text with tools and illustrative examples to aid comprehension, and includes a complementary web resource containing further tools and a training package. All healthcare professionals involved in commissioning or providing primary care to patients will find this practical guide invaluable, as will healthcare managers and health promotion specialists. |
Contents
What we know about the practice and impact of self care | 14 |
Getting organised for supporting self care as a primary care | 30 |
Getting organised for supporting self care as a general practice | 43 |
Getting organised for promoting and supporting self care as | 81 |
Seeing self care from the patients perspective | 101 |
Managing change moving to a self care culture | 114 |
back pain | 136 |
cough and colds | 159 |
Undertake an audit of how well established support for self care is in your practice | 197 |
Training needs analysis | 200 |
How well is your team functioning? | 202 |
Significant event audit | 204 |
PARTworkload assessment | 206 |
Moving through change | 211 |
Keep a reflective learning log | 213 |
Reduce time pressures at work | 215 |
Tools to help you plan and support self care | 171 |
Forcefield analysis | 173 |
Devising your PCTpractice strategy and action plan to establish a new culture of promoting and supporting self care | 176 |
Strengths weaknesses opportunities and threats SWOT analysis | 181 |
taking account of political economic sociological and technological PEST factors | 183 |
The gap model | 186 |
Plan do study act PDSA model for improvement | 188 |
Timetable tasks with a Gantt chart | 191 |
Infrastructure and resource matrix | 194 |
Check out whether self care support is a priority for training and whether the way in which you plan to learn about it is appropriate | 217 |
Draw up a personal map of support mechanisms in your life | 221 |
Assess your consultation skills and style | 223 |
Determine your consulting style | 226 |
encouraging guiding and providing support to patients to adopt self care | 229 |
Useful resources | 234 |
Record sheet to plan and describe your progress in supporting self care | 236 |
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