The Patient Compliance and Patient Education

Patient Compliance and Patient Education
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Patient Compliance and Patient Education
Patient compliance is the extent to which the patient’s existing regime coincides with that prescribed to them by their healthcare provider. It is crucial in enhancing patient health outcomes, particularly those suffering from conditions that require extended medical attention (Dutt, 2017). In addition, compliant patients have an increasingly significant probability of obtaining optimal benefits of medication prescribed by their physician (Kumar & Niharika, 2019).
Healthcare professionals enhance compliance with treatment recommendations by cultivating effective patient-physician communication. The patient-physician engagement creates an opportunity for shared decision-making where patients are involved in their treatment processes. The healthcare professional could contribute to non-compliance by failing to consider patient preferences and needs in the treatment to be applied to them (Deniz et al., 2021). Also, failure to provide sufficient information about the treatment intervention could increase the chances of patient non-compliance.
Compliance is the process of adhering to regulations, laws, and rules that relate to specific healthcare practices. It entails following the healthcare professional’s recommendations about a treatment intervention. Collaboration involves creating effective interactions between the healthcare professional and patient to enhance compliance with the treatment intervention. Collaboration is attained via the shared decision-making process where the clinician and the patient share information and agree on the most feasible treatment approach (Deniz et al., 2021). In that way, collaboration via the shared decision-making framework enhances patient compliance with physicians’ recommendations and prescriptions.
In the past, patient education was anchored on the physician’s experience and knowledge concerning the illness or treatment intervention. Within this model, patients were not included in the decision-making process concerning provider recommendations such as lifestyle changes, dieting, or medication. Today, patient education is anchored on a shared decision-making framework where physicians seek to create effective patient-physician relationships to enhance clients’ health outcomes (Deniz et al., 2021).
Professional commitment defines a nurse’s loyalty and the desire to stay in the profession, thus cultivating a sense of responsibility to the patient. It ...