Chapter 14
Tools to help you plan and
support self care

 

These 21 tools give you some tried and tested techniques to help you devise your strategy and action plan to implement a self care culture. Turn back to Figures 3.1 and 4.1 to see how these tools fit in to the various stages you will work through to evolve and establish a culture of supporting self care in your PCT or practice. The illustrative patient pathways of Chapters 10–13 flagged up the various tools too at pertinent points.

 

Tool 1 Force-field analysis

Tool 2 DevisingyourPCT/practice strategyandactionplantoestablishanewculture of promoting and supporting self care (Devising strategy and action plan)

Tool 3 Strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats (SWOT) analysis (SWOT)

Tool 4 The basic planning process: taking account of political, economic, sociological and technological factors (PEST)

Tool 5 The Gap model

Tool 6 Plan, do, study, act (PDSA) model for improvement

Tool 7 Timetable tasks with a Gantt chart

Tool 8 Infrastructure and resource matrix

Tool 9 Undertake an audit of how well established support for self care is in your practice

Tool 10 Training needs analysis

Tool 11 How well is your team functioning? (Team function checklist)

Tool 12 Significant event audit

Tool 13 PART/workload assessment

Tool 14 Moving through change

Tool 15 Keep a reflective learning log

Tool 16 Reduce time pressures at work

Tool 17 Check out whether supporting self care is a priority for your practice and whether the way in which you plan to learn about it is appropriate (Priority check list)

Tool 18 Draw up a personal map of support mechanisms in your life (Personal support mapping)

Tool 19 Assess your consultation skills and style (Consultation content scale)

Tool 20 Determine your consulting style (Consulting style scale)

Tool 21 Self care consultation style: encouraging, guiding and supporting patients to adopt self care (Self care aware consulting style)

Appendix 1 Useful resources

Appendix 2 Record sheet to plan and describe your progress in supporting self care

 

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