NURS-FPX4900 Assessment 3-1: Capstone Project for Nursing

Technology, Care Coordination, and Community Resources Considerations

Bipolar disorder and related complications reinforce the need for healthcare providers and patients to utilize technology, care coordination, and community resources. The three strengthen commitment to improving quality, safety, and cost of patient care. This project focuses on self-management as a viable means for improving health and quality of life. Care coordination, technology, and community resources make enhance patients’ commitment to embracing self-care practices and making them standard means of optimizing care outcomes. Patients are aware of the various initiatives and pathways for ensuring consistency in monitoring and managing bipolar disorder symptoms.

eMoods to Improve Bipolar Disorder Management

Patient can benefit from multiple technologies designed to improve the quality of bipolar disorder management. eMoods is among the tools available for patients to monitor and manage symptoms. The technology allows patients to track their emotions, sleep, medication adherence, and other symptoms. The patient emails the feedback to their physician or therapist at the end of every month for better discussions about triggers and mood cycles (Mohr et al., 2019). eMoods is a private tool that gives patients the confidence to monitor and manage symptoms. The ease to use tool helps patients track, journal, graph, and report symptoms related to bipolar disorder (Ryan et al., 2021). Patients easily notice triggers and take control of moods, behaviors, and actions. Further, individuals set life goals based on self-management interventions. Patients also align symptoms coping strategies with their personal and health goals. For patients in remote locations, there are opportunities to use telephonic and virtual sessions to fulfill individualized care plans. Patients should ensure that the screen displays content adequately for meaningful progress towards achieving wellness goals.

Care Coordination to Improve Bipolar Management

Collaborative care help improve are outcomes. The practice enhances availability of efficacious treatment by integrating primary and specialty care. Care coordination improves self-management skills through increased access to psychoeducation, social support, and shared decision-making (Mohr et al., 2019). Streamlined information flow makes the care team, patients, and families responsive to recurrent episodes of extreme mood changes. Notably, treatment of bipolar disorder involves pharmacotherapy, supportive treatment, education, and improvement in self-management skills and psychotherapy. Many patients are likely to respond adequately to efforts intended to improve symptoms, enhance cognitive ability, improve social functioning, and empower patients to utilize social support programs (Bonnin et al., 2019. This way, specialist skills on different aspects of bipolar disorder and combination of experiences and knowledge makes it easier for patients to achieve an optimally integrated care.

Patients benefit from a framework designed to help them reduce symptoms, accept illness, and promote treatment adherence. Additionally, patients stabilize social relations, acknowledge early signs and symptoms and maximize social participation across the continuum. A care manager, nurse, social worker, and others actively participate in sessions intended to make patients familiar with care coordination as a means of enhancing access to care and continuity of care (Jones et al., 2023). With care coordination, there are opportunities to understand evidence-based and patient-centered approaches for achieving long-term mental, physical, and emotional health. Patients have easier access to personalized care plans intended to facilitate cooperation, information sharing, and face-to-face and virtual interactions relevant for facilitating adequate response to the needs and expectations of patients living with bipolar disorder.

Community Resources

Patients, families, and communities can benefit from available and accessible health resources across the care continuum. For patients from low-income, underserved, and under-resourced communities benefit from resources designed to maximize outcomes from self-care practices. This project encourages patients to utilize identified resources to make meaningful progress towards achieving the best results.

Community Bipolar Disorder Consultation Sessions

The resource allows patients and families to engage primary care providers and specialists dedicated to improving standards of care. Clients benefit from flexible access to information on self-management activities such as journaling, exercise, and healthy diet relevant for improving health and quality of life. The conversations also encourage individuals to remain dedicated to adhering to recommended practices intended to improve the cost, quality, and safety of patient care.

Bipolar Disorder education forums

Patients and families participate in educational sessions intended to equip them with knowledge, skills, and experiences necessary to achieve the best results. Healthcare professionals including, community health workers, case managers, social workers, and nurses initiate conversations about the best practices for patients to embrace self-management and consistently adhere to individualized care plans essential for improving health and quality of life.

Group recreational sessions

The sessions encourage patients to participate in mindfulness programs such as yoga, swimming, hiking, and walks intended to improve emotional, physical, and psychological health and well-being. The activities encourage positive health-seeking behaviors and attitudes characterized by commitment preventing the risk of delayed or postponed care.

Nurse Practice Standards for Improving Bipolar Disorder Management

Nurse practice standards highlight the need for healthcare professionals to make informed decisions guided by complete understanding of patients’ needs and expectations. Knowing the essentials of bipolar disorder management makes nurses responsive to calls for proactive self-management (Lama & Baruah, 2022). The nursing team helps patients design self-management goals. The goal accommodate better understanding of social support, self-care independence, and strategies for improving self-esteem (Martin, 2023). Practice standards make nurses aware of the risk of injury. The knowledge boosts conversations about interventions necessary to improve patients’ judgment and coordination (Lama & Baruah, 2022). Practice standards also require nurses to understand desired outcomes such as response to medications, exercise, journaling, and substance use cessation. Nurses create the right environment for informed conversations about interventions necessary to improve quality, safety, and cost of patient care. Nurses also acknowledge their roles in promoting equity and fairness when delivering services to patients affected by limited health resources.

Health Policy to Improve Bipolar Disorder Management

Patients, families, and healthcare professionals benefit from health policies designed to optimize care outcomes. The Affordable Care Act is a viable option for healthcare professionals to initiate coordinated treatment. The policy encourages structured activities including communication and flexible access to promotion and education on self-management. The emphasis on affordable, quality, and safe care makes ACA ideal for encouraging patients to engage in activities such as exercise and creative processes relevant for minimizing severity and frequency of mood swings and undesirable behaviors (McIntyre et al., 2022). ACA also enhances establishment of safe and supportive environment for patients and families. Individuals benefit from conversations with qualified healthcare professionals intended to improve quality and safety outcomes. Thus, the care team should work with patients to develop plans that include evidence-based and patient-centered approaches for managing moods and preventing deteriorating symptoms. Patients also benefit from culturally appropriate and quality-driven practices intended to optimize self-management.

Part 2: Conversation with a Patient

Bipolar disorder management reminds healthcare providers about their roles in helping patients overcome the burden of managing symptoms. The patient acknowledged the impact of care coordination, technology, and community resources in improving quality, safety, and cost of patient care. The patient’s high health literacy enabled him to understand and embrace self-care practices as means of improving health and quality of life. For instance, the responded recognized community health resources such as educational sessions and group recreational activities as key to making meaningful progress towards monitoring and managing symptoms. I informed the patient about eMood and relevant in facilitating coordinating disease management. The patient acknowledged the need for enhanced commitment to using virtual resources to interact with healthcare professionals and identify improvements necessary to reduce the risk of severe symptoms. From the conversation, it was evident that self-management is ideal for patients to overcome health disparities within their communities.