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Success Factors for Client Centred Care
Challenges/Barriers to Client Centred Care
- Limitation of resources to respond to clients needs
- Financial resources (e.g. for educating of part-time staff)
- Lack of suitable documentation tools prior to implementation
- No resource person easy to contact at all the times
- Task orientation of unregulated staff
- Staff attitudes – "we do it already" and lack of buy–in
- Restructuring pressures
- Workload/time constraints and fear it may mean increased workload
- Scheduling education sessions
- Hospital systems (e.g. food preparation at certain times)
- Lack of staff to cover for educational sessions
- Staff rotation – limited time to get to know clients
- Changing long time patterns of practice
