Abstract
This article is about transitions in life, more in particular the transitions in health and care that are related to these changes. We will focus on the awareness and the engagement that Meleis distinguished in the patient experience of transition. And how nurses can take clinical leadership to advance patient awareness and engagement and in this way promote self-management. We will focus on the question what the contribution of nurse practitioners may be in coordinating health professionals and promoting collaboration between stakeholders and between the health and the social domain. This is transitioning care.
Highlights
This article is about transitions in a patient’s life, especially those related to health and how nurses can adequately respond to them
Other transitions are situation bound changes in which people take up new social roles, for instance transitions in education or professional status, changes in family roles [1]
In this article we will put forward the proposition that transitions in health and health care need a specific approach from professional nurses for which clinical leadership is necessary
Summary
This article is about transitions in a patient’s life, especially those related to health and how nurses can adequately respond to them. Transitions in health can be related to a new stage in the course a disease takes. This often concurs with changes in one’s social roles and the delivery of received care [2,3,4,5]. They can be turning-points in the course of someone’s life or in his career as a patient It is usually a temporary process during which meaningful changes with a large impact take place. The change (with ill health this implies often a loss of vitality or perspective) has been integrated into daily life Someone found his own answer to deal with the situation, a new balance has been struck and the self-image has been adapted. The factors related to the transition process as such tend to be recognized only for their share in eliciting a relapse or exacerbation of symptoms and are most of the time not addressed for their psychosocial impact on the patient and his social system
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