week 4 peer Response to 2

Question for week 4 collaboration is 

Follow these guidelines when completing each component of the Collaboration Café.  Contact your course faculty if you have questions. 

Include the following sections: 

1. Application of Course Knowledge:  Answer all questions/criteria with explanations and detail:

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  • Define what person-centered care means to you.
  • Describe how you will apply the following principles in your future role as an advanced practice nurse.
    • holistic nursing
    • cultural humility
    • self-reflection

1. Engagement in Meaningful Dialogue: Engage peers by asking questions, and offering new insights, applications, perspectives, information, or implications for practice:

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  • Respond to at least one peer.
  • Respond to a second peer post.
  • Communicate using respectful, collegial language and terminology appropriate to advanced nursing practice.

1. Professionalism in Communication: Communicate with minimal errors in English grammar, spelling, syntax, and punctuation.

peer 1 post  of 

Week 4 Discussion Collaboration Cafe

Amanda post 

Person-centered care means I’m not just treating a problem or doing a service, I’m taking care of a real person. It means listening to what the patient wants, understanding why they want it, and making sure the plan actually fits their life, comfort level, and goals. In aesthetics especially, I think person-centered care is huge because people aren’t just coming in for Botox or filler… they’re coming in because they want to feel more confident, refreshed, or like themselves again. My job is to guide them in a way that feels safe, supportive, and realistic.

As a future advanced practice nurse in aesthetics, I’ll apply person-centered care through holistic nursing, cultural humility, and self-reflection.

Even though aesthetics is “cosmetic,” I still see it as healthcare. People don’t exist in a bubble stress, sleep, hormones, aging, lifestyle, and even mental health can all affect how someone looks and feels. So for me, holistic nursing means I’m not just looking at someone’s lips or forehead… I’m looking at the whole picture.

For example, if someone is asking for under-eye filler but they’re exhausted, dehydrated, not sleeping, and super stressed, I want to educate them on what will actually help and what won’t. Sometimes the best plan is a combination of treatments over time, skincare, and realistic expectations, not just doing what they ask for in the moment. I also think holistic care means knowing when to say no. If something isn’t safe or isn’t going to give the patient the result they’re hoping for, I’d rather be honest than do a treatment just to do it.

Cultural humility matters so much in aesthetics because everyone has different features, different beauty goals, and different preferences. I never want to assume what someone wants based on their background or what’s trending on social media. I want my patients to feel comfortable telling me what they like about themselves and what they want to enhance.

It also matters clinically because different skin types react differently to certain treatments. Things like pigmentation risks, scarring, or sensitivity can vary, and it’s my responsibility to stay educated so I can treat everyone safely. I think cultural humility is really about staying open, asking questions, and remembering the patient is the expert on their own experience.

Self-reflection is something I think every provider needs, but in aesthetics it’s especially important. People can come in with unrealistic expectations, body image issues, or pressure from social media, and I have to constantly check myself and make sure I’m practicing ethically. It also helps me grow as a provider. I want to look back at results, learn from every patient interaction, and always improve my skills and communication.

Overall, person-centered care is basically the foundation of how I already try to practice  especially in aesthetics. I want my patients to feel heard, supported, and taken care of… and I want them to leave feeling like the best version of themselves, not like they were pushed or sold into something.

  peer 2 post of  Brittany

 In thinking about person centered care and what it means to me, I put myself into their position and ensure that I am treating them as I would want to be treated. When thinking about healthcare and the care that others provide, I think a lot about “what if it were me?”. I think a lot about the patients and how they are perceiving the interaction. While it is important to provide accurate evidence-based care, it is important to treat the whole patient and not just the ailment.

In thinking about my future practice as an advance practice nurse, I think a lot about treating the whole patient and not just the patient. Holistic nursing is not just the one issue that is being treated, it can mean looking at the whole patient and treating it from many different angles. There are difference facets that factor into treating a patient not just the physical manifestations. This can include the psychological factors as well.

Living in the United States, we are blessed to have a diverse range of cultures around us. While we do not always understand them, it is important as a provider to be open and understanding that our patients will have different cultures as well. I have often asked patients that have different cultural beliefs to share them with me and how it will impact their care. It is important to know that we will not fully understand one’s cultural beliefs without asking them as they can differ from person to person and its impact on healthcare can be high.

I have often thought after treating patients “was that enough?” or “did I miss something?” I think constant self-reflection helps to ensure that I am providing the best care that I can. When we use self-reflection, we do not just learn about our practice, but we can learn about ourselves and how the events impacted us. I often think back to the pandemic and treating patients in the ICU and during that time, the amount of self-reflection that I did. It helped me both as a nurse as well as for my own psychological wellness. If we as practitioners are not self-reflecting, then, I feel we are not providing the best care for our patients.