Collaboration among different professions is a key to a positive prognosis in health care settings. To properly prepare the health care providers for collaborative practice, the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative (CIHC) developed a national interprofessional (IP) competency teamwork, which identifies six essential competencies. One key competency is interprofessional communication. It is defined as “learners/ practitioners understand their own role and the roles of those in other professions, and use this knowledge appropriately to establish and achieve patient/client/ family and community goals” (CIHC, 2010). In this paper, a clinical case related to interprofessional communication will be reviewed. The significance of the …show more content…
Soon after Mr. Marks received the medication, he became very lightheaded and rang the bell. Tina noticed that he has reduced respiration and his oxygen saturation level was falling. His SBP was also dropped below 90/60. Tina called for assistant immediately. Charge nurse called Dr. Marks and he came to the unit right away. He assessed Mr. James and ordered narcotic antagonist naloxone. Mr. James recovered subsequently. The presented clinical situation demonstrated ineffective interprofessional communication. First, the rehab physician did not communicate with the nurse Tina to clarify the medication order he wrote. Second, the nurse Tina did not communicate with her collegues or consult pharmacy about the issue. The interprofessional communication requires mutual respect and active listening to ensure common understanding of care decisions. It also involves negotiating, consulting, interacting, discussing or debating in a collaborative and responsible manner (CIHC, 2010). These important components were not applied by the physician and the primary nurse. Lack of communication result in medical errors which have the potential to cause severe injury or unexpected patient death (O’Danie & Rosenstein, 2008). In this case, patient was administered potent narcotics and developed opioid overdose symptoms. This time, the team members, including the physician, the primary nurse and the charge nurse was able to effectively communicated and emergency treatment was
Another important aspect of healthcare is effective interprofessional practice. This allows practitioners from different disciplines to work together to provide the best care for patients. There are four areas of competency in interprofessional collaborative practice. They are values/ethics, roles/responsibilities, interprofessional communication, and teams/teamwork (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2011). Each of these areas contribute to skilled interprofessional
Interprofessional practice for the professional nurse can be defined as collaboration and shared decision making with other health care professionals to improve care and provide safe outcomes for patients. Since nurse are central to the care of the patient, they are often viewed as the communicator and the coordinator of the patient’s care (Burzotta & Nobel, 2011). Nurses have a unique opportunity as a interprofessional team member given their scope of knowledge about the patient. However, nurses struggle with role-identify when a part of an interprofessional team. The work of nurses do is often viewed as non-professional and more task driven by
The benefits of collaboration allow participants to achieve together more than they can individually, serve larger groups of people, and grow on individual and organizational levels. This editorial provides an overview of interprofessional collaboration in the areas of clinical practice, education, and research; discusses barriers to collaboration; and suggests potential means to overcome
In interprofessional care, it is important that the health care providers build skills that enhance interprofessional communication and interaction no matter what model is practiced. Successful interprofessional communication is a necessary competency that can ensure achievements of outcomes, improvement of team functioning, efficiency, and individual value (Interprofessional Education Collaborative Expert Panel, 2011). Training, simulation experiences, group projects, and personal interactions with other staff members can facilitating positive or negative interactions that can affect communication. To ensure that successful interprofessional communication and interaction, much consideration should also be given to the environment
This paper address the lack of communication between interdicinplnary staff and the patients they care for also the significance of the care giver when patient enter an ICU setting. There are several problems that can occur to patient in an ICU setting when communication between collaborative care is broken down. The biggest issue can be death when this happens or even patient injuries which are two of the biggest concerns when it comes to care of patients. “Notably, when asked to evaluate interprofessional collaboration, nurses consistently rate is lower than doctors, suggesting discipline-specific perspectives on the nature of collaboration (Baggs, Miller, Sexton,2002).” Showing that nurses and physicians are where the problems seems to lye
Healthcare is continuously changing with the modern times and whilst there have been many advancements in technologies and techniques; the roles of health care professionals have also changed significantly and the crucial need for inter-professional practice emerged. Interprofessional practice is essential as there is no single profession that can meet all of a patient's needs. (Matziou et al., 2014) For an effective interprofessional collaboration, it is essential that all professionals have a clear definition, awareness, and recognition of each profession and they are able to communicate effectively between different professions (Caldwell and Atwal, 2003). This essay will explain interprofessional practice and why it is essential for quality health outcomes, outline the roles and responsibilities of several health care professions and discuss the importance of interprofessional communication.
This patient, as being a re-admission and has done this tactic before, will say or do what it takes to be admitted and ultimately, will obtain narcotic medicine. This causes a delay in the department’s routine and schedule and a lacking of bed for a patient who is truly, acutely ill. The most common example is when an admitted patient in a psychiatric unit complains of his or her pain regimen to the provider as inadequate. Physicians are familiar of the dangers of prescribing addictive medications to patients with history of or with great risk of substance abuse. In cases when these patients do no get the prescription they want, they may display outbursts that may threaten or harm others or themselves.
The delivery of safe, affordable and quality healthcare to clients is an integral part in today`s health care. In order to provide the aforementioned care; inter-professional (IP) collaboration of the health care members is essential. The need for IP collaboration has been identified by the Institute of Medicine (IOM), the federal government, the Department of Health and Human Services. The American Association of Colleges of Nursing (AACN) has identified the IP collaboration as an essential element of nursing education in the AACN Essential Series (Messer, n.d.). Evidence suggests that the collaboration among health professionals has been associated positively with patient outcomes in the operating room, the emergency
The results showed that this experience led to improvements in the student’s attitudes towards learning and collaborating with peers in other disciplines. (Wellmon et al., 2012) This indicates interprofessional collaboration does not only benefit on health care teams but also in the learning process for students. This partnership can enhance the all group member’s learning experience. Another literature discussed about the ethics of this practice and it stated “Interprofessional care essentially ethical. Its espoused motivation is that it promotes the well-being of the patient or beneficence, which is to do well by the patient.” (Engel & Prentice, 2013) This article also brought up the topic of possible conflicts within the collaborated group members which can be due to competition arising between members or difference in viewpoints. The viewpoint was described as by necessity and guided by the each group member’s values and beliefs which can be influence by their disciplinary knowledge and perspectives. (Engel & Prentice, 2013) This means that there may be the presence of barriers during this collaboration process since members of the team are from different fields of practice and professions which may have different values and beliefs. Within our nursing theory textbook, it mentioned that “establishing
“Interprofessional working involves complex interactions between two or more members of different professional disciplines. It is a collaborative venture in which those involved share the common purpose of developing mutually negotiated goals achieved through agreed plans which are monitored and evaluated according to agreed procedures. This requires the pooling of knowledge and expertise to facilitate joint decision making based upon shared professional viewpoints” (Barrett, Sellman & Thomas, 2005, p18). How individuals collaborate and work towards a common goal for the benefit of the patient is essential for a swift recovery.
Working in a team is an important responsibility by understanding each other’s role which may include doctor, nurse, occupational therapist, physiotherapist and many more. Team members divide the work based on their scope practice such as acute care, metal health care, homecare etc. Interprofessional collaboration practice is decision making and communicating between individuals for their patient’s health based on their knowledge and skills. It helps to promote habits, maximizing health resources, leading care to be safer with patient’s satisfaction and Canada’s health care (Kenaszchuk, Reeves, Nicholas, & Zwarenstein, 2010).
Interprofessional education (IPE) is an extremely important approach in the academic field for preparing healthcare students to provide patient care in a collaborative team environment. IPE is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “a process that occurs when two or more professionals learn about, from, and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes”. The IPE has three components for collaborative patient-centered practice including “socializing health-care professionals to work together, developing mutual understanding and respect for various disciplines, and imparting collaborative practice competencies”. Numerous recently published studies highlighted the effectiveness and success of IPE as part of the education process.
Interprofessional working is defined as ‘persons belonging to a profession, relating between and among each other, for the mutual benefit of those involved’ (Day, 2006), whilst attempting to improve the quality of patient care and unite the multidisciplinary team to focus on patient centred, excellent care (Goodman & Clemow, 2010). Interprofessional workers in the healthcare setting can include nursing staff from all fields; adult, mental health, learning disabilities and paediatrics, as well as the wider multidisciplinary team within the ward setting, such as occupational therapists, physiotherapists, doctors, podiatrists, furthermore, expanding from the ward setting to include community nurses, social workers, health visitors and midwives. Interprofessional working enables and encourages these professionals to combine their values and beliefs to focus on the patients and to deliver excellent, patient centred care. This therefore allows them to share a common purpose and goal whilst combining their knowledge, skills and resources as a team (Day, 2006).
The capacity to work with other clinicians from various disciplines, in delivery of quality care through joint effort, is an essential feature needed in health care profession. Additionally, it is through effective and skilled professional communication of health care professionals that the patients and family members are able to receive quality care and outcomes. The interprofessional collaboration is affected by the environmental conditions, as well as health care conditions. The impact of these factors, significance, and the management have greatly influenced the health care delivery. In order to enhance the knowledge of the future generation of nurses, designed models are needed, to demonstrate how collaboration works in clinical settings.
“All health care disciplines share a common and primary commitment to serving the patient and working toward the ideal of health for all.” (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2014, p. 1) There are many different professional members in the healthcare system. Each of them, have a specific specialty and responsibility to the patient and play an important role in the patient’s overall plan of care. “The scope of health care mandates that health professionals work collaboratively and with other related disciplines. Collaboration emanates from an understanding and appreciation of the roles and contributions that each discipline brings to the care delivery experience.” (American Association of Colleges of