Academic community and FoN UI alumni jointly carry out community service and empowerment by empowering treatment partners in an effort to improve treatment outcomes for patients at Komodo Labuan Bajo Hospital, Monday (12/9). This activity was attended by 15 nurses from various work units at Komodo Labuan Bajo Hospital as participants. The Service Team in this activity reminded nurses at Komodo Labuan Bajo Hospital about the Patient Centered Care (PCC) concept as regulated in Hospital Accreditation Standards, KMK 1128. In 2022.

Nurses need to involve and empower families in this case as care partners, especially in patients with chronic diseases. Empowerment of care partners is aimed at improving the patient’s quality of life. Various needs of care partners that nurses need to know are knowledge and information needs, support needs (bio-psycho-social-cultural-spiritual), care needs for self-care partners, and needs for care recipients. “Keep in mind that every education that nurses do to foster partners must always be documented,” said Prof. Roro as the head of the service team. One of the participants said that this activity was very beneficial for nurses at Komodo Hospital Labuan Bajo.

The community engagement team and participants are joined in one group in communication media to share information and discuss with nurses so that the care partner program can run at Komodo Labuan Bajo Hospital. The follow-up plan for this community engagement and empowerment activity is for further services, the community engagement team and Komodo Labuan Bajo Hospital together empower treatment partners at the hospital. This activity is fully supported by the Directorate of Community Service and Empowerment, University of Indonesia.