Facilitating student compliance into professional concordance

Abstract

treatment to a focus on the patient's autonomy and participation in their own care. It is important to note that compliance has a universal connotation related to an adhering to a standard. Instead of care being rendered in terms of dictated interventions, a dialogue should be initiated to assess the patient's priorities with regards to their healthcare and overall wellbeing. Concordance is a synergistic collaboration between the provider and patient in which the patient's wishes and intentions are held paramount. Relevance to the nursing field Currently, patient compliance to prescribed plans of care is a subject of great interest to the field. 3 Consequentially, many articles have been written in the pursuit of improving patient compliance as their main objective. 4-6 Lack of compliance to plans of care is noted as being a major factor in rising healthcare costs. 7 When healthcare interventions are not implemented, often medical conditions worsen or result in acute exacerbations. As a medical issue progresses, costs typically become more substantial. The prevailing method of intervention to achieve positive patient outcomes has been focused on improving compliance to evidence-based best care practices.