Age Friendly Health Systems – Empowering Patients and Families Through a Followership Lens

Overview:

Patient- and family-centered care has been shown to lead to better health outcomes. This approach to planning, delivering, and evaluating health care begins with the core concepts of dignity and respect, information sharing, participation, and collaboration. During collaboration, roles may oscillate between that of leader or follower. Understanding the influence of Followership theory will help team members effectively manage their leadership and followership roles. Additionally, engagement in collaborative activities may also waiver. Understanding how contextual factors influence engagement will allow team members to identify strategies to optimize the collaborative experience between patients, families, and health care providers.

Objectives:

1.  Develop an understanding of a Patient and Family Centered Care Model
2.  Develop a basic understanding of followership theory tenants
3.  Implement Patient and Family Centered Care practice through a followership lens

Erika Bowen, PhD
Director
Patient and Family Resource Center/Patient Family Advisory Council (PFAC)
University Health
Adjunct Assistant Professor
School of Nursing
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine UT Health San Antonio

Karen Walker Schwab, PhD, APRN, CPNP-PC, PMHS
Assistant Professor/Clinical
UT Health San Antonio
Wellness 360 Pediatrics

Financial Disclosures:

Erika Bowen, PhD and Karen Walker Schwab PhD, APRN, CPNP-PC, PMHS have no relevant financial relationships with commercial interests to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee members (Marcy Wiemers, MD, Maria Del Pilar Montañez Villacampa, MD, Christine Song, DO, Nehman Andry, MD, Margaret Finley, Maureen Alvarado, DO, Richel Avery, MD, Inez I. Cruz, PhD, and Nichole Rubio) have no relevant financial relationships to commercial interests to disclose.

The Family & Community Medicine Professional Development and Grand Rounds Committee member Carlos Roberto Jaén, MD has disclosed he receives royalties from General Practice and Family Medicine for being UpToDate Editor-in-Chief.

Credits:

AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™ (1.00 hours), Non-Physician Participation Credit (1.00 hours)

Target Audience:

Specialties – Primary Care; Family Medicine
Faculty, residents, other health care providers and staff from our department; physicians and health care providers from San Antonio and South Texas; and medical students in our third-year clerkship and fourth year rotations.

Accreditation:

The UT Health Long San Antonio School of Medicine is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Credit Designation:

The Long School of Medicine designates this live activity up to a maximum of 1.00 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits™.

Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nurses and other healthcare professionals will receive a Certificate of Attendance. For information on applicability and acceptance, please consult your professional licensing board.

For activity related questions, please contact:
Name: Nichole Rubio- FCM Grand Rounds Coordinator
Email: rubion@uthscsa.edu

For CME general questions, please contact
Ph: (210) 567-4445
Email: cme@uthscsa.edu