Fundesalud promotes the figure of the patient "expert"

The Ministry of Health and Social Policy of the Government of Extremadura, in collaboration with Fundesalud, has promoted the figure of the "expert" patient through the Type 2 diabetes self -care program, which has been presented in the auditorium of the Hospital of the Hospital ofMérida

This program, based on the figure of the "expert" patient, designed by the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Josep Laporte Foundation, has the collaboration of the Astra-Zeneca and Bristol-Myers Squibb alliance.

The objective of this program is to "influence the psychological and social part of the disease, complementing the professional work of the health", and is destined to instruct chronic patients to "be able to understand their disease and so that they cantake responsibility for your health and properly manage the different treatment options. "

In this first year of operation, the program will benefit some 160 patients with poorly controlled diabetes of all health areas, which "will undoubtedly result in a better quality of life and psychological well -being for these people", as well as a "minorFrequency of consultations and hospitalizations that involve significant economic savings in the medium term, "the promoters of the same point out.

Until now, health professionals have almost exclusively been responsible for training patients with diabetes in the self -control of their disease, always starting from theoretical knowledge about diabetes and their treatment.However, what is pursued with the figure of the expert patient, always supported by an educating nurse, is that this is the one who star actively and directly direct the training sessions, providing recommendations applicable in day to day, beyond treatment and carehealth;In addition to allowing educating nurses to know the disease from the patient's perspective.

It seems to me a great initiative, hopefully it will be implemented throughout Spain ....

Inconsistencies everywhere or everywhere that we say the English: D

They say:
The objective of this program is to "influence the psychological and social part of the disease, complementing the professional work of the healthcare
And don't they hire psychologists?
Is an educator nurse prepared to influence the psychological part?: shock :: o:-/: ((:(
Because psychologists do not let us approach the "medical" part ...

They continue to say:
What is pursued with the figure of the expert patient, always supported by an educating nurse, is that this is the one who star actively and directly direct the training sessions, providing recommendations applicable in day to day, beyond treatment and carehealth;

No, this is not the concept of an expert patient ... they mix churras with merinas, to vary ... yes, everything is beautiful, beautiful and sells very well in the press.

On the one hand, patients must be trained to be experts in their own disease, with their own particularities and that they are able to manage their diabetes every day.
On the other hand, the expert patient is a person who, in addition to being trained in his own disease, is formed and motivated to help other patients with the same pathology ... nothing new or dazzling, they are the self -help groups that have been a thousand yearsgiving in different pathologies and situations.

And to finish:
In addition to allowing educating nurses to know the disease from the perspective of the patient
Well, go chestnut of educators who do not know the patient's perspective ... they will be nurses but not educators.

Anyway, I must be that I am in grump mode.

It is what happens when Health in Extremadura is directed by an incompetent teacher who, instead of fulfilling the commitments of taking the opposition within the fixed period, is dedicated to lying in the media and saying Gilipolle.
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