5: Implementing Self-management Support in Your Practice

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Learning objectives

To have knowledge of how self-management support can be applied in your practice
To have knowledge of assessment tools that can assist you and your team to determine the quality of self-management support in your current practice
To have knowledge and understanding of how quality improvement processes can be used to identify and address areas of opportunity to improve self-management support

To understand the stages of the PDCA cycle and to be able to use this model to implement initiatives to improve self-management support
To have knowledge of resources to support the implementation of self-management support in your practice

Topic areas

5.1: Quality Improvement

5.2: Organise a Self-management Support Improvement Team

5.3: Resources and Supports for Self-management Assessment Tool

5.4: The Patient Assessment of Chronic Illness Care Assessment Tool

5.5: Plan–Do–Check–Act (PDCA)

5.6: A Case Study

5.7: Demonstrated Practice Improvement

5.8: Review of Module 5

True or false?

To begin, try the pre-module test. This test will be repeated at the end of the module.

1. To make quality improvement initiatives to self-management support, large scale changes need to be made to current practice.

2. Assessment tools, such as the ACIC, CCRS, PCRS and PACIC can be utilised to set targets and benchmarks for quality improvement.

3. The CCRS and the ACIC can both be used to assess the quality of chronic care provision.

4. The CCRS assessment tool can be utilised to identify strengths and weakness in self-management support as judged by the health professional.

5. The CCRS assessment tool provides feedback on organisational support and patient support.

6. Patient-centred care can be measured using the PACIC assessment tool.

7. Research results using the PACIC show that goal-setting and follow-up support were given the least attention by health care professionals.

8. A self-management support improvement team will only be successful if there are at least five members in the group.

9. The Plan–Do–Check–Act cycle can be used to assess self-management support.

10. A cycle of thorough planning and effective action will achieve improvements in self-management support.