Patient Priorities Care - A Whole Health Approach
By Ladsine Taylor
The VA SIG held its first meeting of the new year with a kickoff presentation on Patient Priorities Care by Melissa deCardi Hladek, PhD, CRNP, FNP-BC (Principal Faculty, Center for Equity in Aging, John Hopkins School of Nursing). This was a very educational and informative presentation. Here are a few highlights:
- Patient Priorities Care is considered a whole health practice and model of care supporting age- friendly health systems of care.
- Patient Priorities Care (PPC) is a framework for “What Matters,” consisting of the 4Ms (What Matters, Medications, Mentation, Mobility). It moves care alignment solely from evidence-based guidelines or clinicians into knowing who the patient is based on the belief system or what the patient values for health conditions. PPC consists of two parts:
- Soliciting patients’ values and goals
- Aligning shared decision making with values/goals and focusing on this one thing.
- In short, PPC is an age-friendly approach to focus health care decision-making and planning on what matters most: patients’ own health priorities.
- More Information/Resources: PatientPrioritiesCare.org
- Self-guided Priorities Identification: MyHealthPriorities.org
- For training on PPC within the VA system:
- TMS Module 131006325 (1 CEU)
- TMS Module 131006354 (1CEU)
- VA Specific Resources:
- Kay Ritchey Katherine.ritchey2@va.gov
- Tracey Rosen tracey.rosen@bcm.edu
Ladsine Taylor, MSN, APRN, GNP-BC, CDP
Chair, VA SIG
ladsinetaylor@gmail.com