The Implementation of a Model of Person-Centred Practice In Older ...

The implementation of a model of person-centred practice in older person settings
what it meant to be a resident. They found this helpful and thoughtprovoking.
It also showed that “using enlightening questions can get deeper
meaningful information”. They learned to identify what needed to be
addressed and how to develop action plans around these gaps.
In commencing their action plans, participants were adhering to the basic
principles of CIP, as they needed to engage with other members of staff in
order to progress the plan. They also had to engage with senior management
which to date would not have been the norm. This promoted a better
understanding from the participants’ viewpoint of how to address issues through
the proper channels, e.g. “I learned a better way to look for improvements to be
done”.
Day eleven
The focus was on achievements both personally and professionally in terms of care
for residents. Data indicates that there were benefits for the organisation from the
learning in relation to issues such as, communication, evidence gathering, analysis
data, action planning and the development of new ways of ‘doing things’, the need to
challenge new ways of doing things ‘old ‘habits, routines and attitudes’. Seven
themes were identified:
(1) Team work: open and honest communication within the PD group and the
wider team.
(2) Evidence based frameworks: policy divers such as HIQA standards and where
it fits in the framework; for the service and for older people. The Personcentred
framework: Practice Development framework and what it means.
Again participants were surprised at how long and how much effort needs to be
put into getting awareness about evidence based tools into day-to-day
consciousness. Further, feeling comfortable with these resources and seeing
them as positive and offering opportunities was a challenge as teams were
generally suspicious and negative about such developments.
(3) Reflection and how to do it: the ability to reflect on practice and ‘the way we do
things’, although the reflection was still experienced as been ‘hard’ and ‘new
learning,’ one of the participants described the need to reflect on what we do
every day as… ‘vital to know how we are ourselves and how we react in
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