Self-care planning supports clinical care: Putting total care into practice

Marg Adams, Jeanne Chase, Camille Doyle, Jason Mills

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Abstract

It is often suggested that failure to plan is tantamount to a plan for failure. In our clinical experience, we have not come across a clinician who consciously sought out ‘failure’ in their care of others; yet, at the same time, in the context of self-care it is our observation that a lack of planning can certainly become a barrier to effective self-care practice. Here, we suggest that self-care planning supports clinical care, and further represents a form of ‘total care’ in which both patient (or client) and clinician needs are recognised and cared for in clinical practice. In doing so, we draw from Palliative Care Australia’s Self-Care Matters resource (https://palliativecare.org.au/resources/self-care-matters) and its self-care planning process.1
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)305-307
Number of pages3
JournalProgress in Palliative Care
Volume28
Issue number5
Early online date7 Aug 2020
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Sept 2020
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Self-care
  • Clinical care
  • Total care
  • Clinical practice

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