What is value elicitation, and how do I perform practical experiments with it?

Question

I got accepted to nursing, and I was told to research the concept. Anybody have any clue what it is? Goodle isn't being a very good helper for me today.

Answer 1

As a nurse, part of your duties will be to determine the best course of action for the patients treatment. The best treatment does for the patient what they want to accomplish. Health professionals cannot assume what outcome the patient wants and the patient cannot always be counted on to say what their desires are for the outcome. It is a nurse's function to elicit or draw out that set of values in a patient.

Find out what their expectations are of the treatment and allow that to guide the health providers to prescribe what is best for the patient.

Looking at a patient may not provide all the answers. An elderly man with need of a hip replacement may not benefit from it if his plans are to be wheeled around Disneyland with his grand children, but if he plans to re-enter tennis competitions at his retirement community's courts, he would. You must elicit what he values in his life and tailor the treatment to that.

Answer 2

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What is elicitation?

For intelligence professionals, no matter the environment, elicitation is one of the most fundamental keys to success. Elicitation techniques allow the collection of specific information without resorting to questions. Direct questions tend to raise questions themselves. They also signal intentions and areas of specific interest, and usually reduce the level of cooperation.

Who uses elicitation?

Professionals in diverse fields employ elicitation techniques to enhance the quality and quantity of information they need. Non-threatening and non-confrontational elicitation techniques allow skilled users to succeed where other techniques fall short. Practitioners range from intelligence professionals to psychologists, from marketers to negotiators, from managers to investigators, from nurses to attorneys.

How is elicitation done?

Elicitation techniques are couched within simple conversations. They're designed to collect information from those who have it and who may not otherwise be inclined to divulge such things in response to direct questions.

Value Elicitation, in your line of work, has to do with several medical decision components.

The first component consists of technical judgments, which are the answers to such questions as "What is the diagnosis? What is the most effective treatment? What are the likely consequences of the treatment?"

The second component consists of value judgments, which are the answers to such questions as "Do I want to know the diagnosis if the outcome will not change much? What is my tolerance for a false-positive result on this test? Will the quality of my life be better with a less effective treatment?"

When physicians and patients are explicit about which component of a medical decision they are considering, good decisions are far more likely. What is a good decision? One that achieves the optimum improvement in health and peace of mind for the patient. Physicians should feel that they have done the best job they could, and patients should feel that the decision was the best they could have made.