Leadership Plan
- Develop a motivational interview protocol to guide staff and physicians in determining appropriate family and supports to be involved in care planning
- Develop comfort planning practices for staff to engage with patients prior to care planning.
- Develop or adopt a comfort planning model that includes X, Y, Z and specific elements of importance to your community
- Provide capacity. Protect time to engage in patient comfort planning.
- Provide capability. Educate staff on how to leverage comfort planning, how to engage patients to identify their triggers, and when to seek additional resources
- Provide motivation. Highlight the importance of patient involvement in patient outcomes, empower staff to take action to proactively assess and include patients in their treatment.
- Provide a systematic way to track and iteratively improve patient engagement. Collect data about outcomes, success rates.