Evidence-Based Patient-Centered Concept Map

Professional Context
Concept maps are widely used in nursing care. They can be effective tools for organizing workload, prioritizing patient care strategies, and developing personalized care approaches. In addition to organizing care, they can aid in ensuring that the a patient’s care is individualized to not only their health conditions, but also their familial cultural, and environmental situation.

Scenario
You created a draft of an evidence-based concept map to illustrate an approach to care for a patient in the Evidence-Based Patient-Centered Care media piece. For this assignment, you will build upon and refine your draft of the concept map, as well as develop a narrative to support your concept map. Your concept map and narrative for the individualized care of your chosen case should demonstrate that you have considered and researched the following.

Instructions
The bullet points below correspond to grading criteria in the scoring guide. Be sure that your map and narrative address all of the bullets below, at minimum. You may also want to read the Evidence-Based Patient-Centered Concept Map Scoring Guide and Guiding Questions: Evidence-Based Patient-Centered Concept Map (both linked in the Resources) to create an outline for your assignment and to better understand how each criterion will be assessed.

When creating your concept map and narrative, be sure to note the areas where you need to include your evidence-based support. Also, be clear about what your communication strategies are for relating information to the patient and their family.

Part 1: Concept Map
Develop a patient-centered concept map based upon the best available evidence that has been individualized to treat your specific patient’s health, economic, and cultural needs.
Part 2: Narrative
Analyze the needs of both the patient from your chosen case and their family to determine how they will influence a patient-centered concept map.
Justify the value and relevance of the evidence you used as the basis for your patient-centered concept map.
Propose criteria that can be used to evaluate the degree to which the desired outcomes of the patient-centered concept map were achieved.
Apply strategies for communicating with your chosen patient and their family in an ethical, culturally sensitive, and inclusive way.
Integrate relevant sources to support assertions, correctly formatting citations and references using APA style.
Submission Requirements
Length of narrative: 4 single spaced, typed pages. Your narrative should be succinct yet substantive.
Number of references: Cite a minimum of 35 sources of scholarly or professional evidence in total between your Concept Map and Narrative. Be sure you are citing evidence in both parts.
APA formatting: Resources and citations are formatted according to current APA style.
Please submit both your concept map and your narrative as separate documents in the assignment submissions area.
You must submit both documents at the same time. Make sure both documents are attached in the assignment area before submitting your assignment.