Delivering Patient-centered Care by Promoting Integrative Nursing

Patient-centered care is an approach to healthcare delivery, where the patient’s requirements, likes and cultural values occupy the Centre stage for all decisions related to their management. The purpose of the Present article is to ascertain the role of integrative nursing in the delivery patient-centered care, identify the barriers involved in practising integrative nursing, and propose potential recommendations to overcome these identified barriers. Integrative nursing is a comprehensive, evidence-driven approach that envisages the necessity to treat the whole person instead of targeting their symptoms or the disease they are suffering from. The adoption of integrative nursing plays a vital role in delivering the patient-centered care, which is the need of the hour. This can be attributed to the fact that it advocates a holistic, personalised approach, and this immensely contributes to patient satisfaction, because patients are being heard, respected, and valued for their views. Common barriers to successful implementation of integrative nursing include insufficient training of healthcare professionals, time-intensive nature of these practices, the lack of policies to implement integrative nursing, reluctance among healthcare professionals to adopt integrative approaches. In conclusion, integrative nursing can create an environment for the delivery of comprehensive, compassionate, and culturally sensitive patientcentered care, eventually contributing to better patient satisfaction and treatment outcomes.