Cross-Professional Collaboration And Social Inclusion

Throughout this assessment I will analyse a critical incident of an interaction between a worker and a service user or carer during my statutory observation experience. I will conclude my own assessment of the situation and demonstrate my understanding of the use of self, context in which social work takes place and the knowledge and methods of practice. I will not use any of the service users, carers or agencies names in this essay due to the data protection act 1998. I will also adhere to the GSCC codes of conduct that respect and relate to the service users

2. Collaborative care stimulate creativity, as various voices in the health system are gathered to raising the description of information that may not happen without the collaborative achievement from members of staff at difference levels, who may look at the difficulty from a different area and give proficiency view in connection with health care.

In the beginning of this activity, I did not know much about collaboration between different healthcare professionals. It helped me to clarify the meaning of a healthcare team and also to understand the role of different professionals in the team. Different team members have their specific roles and all of them work together to achieve a common goal –healthier patient. They work independently, but when it comes to decision making they seek advice from other healthcare provider in order to do the best for the patient. Not only doctor, physiotherapists, pharmacists and etc. are considered being part of the team. Patients must also be considered part of the decision making process,

Anaylse the role of the social worker and the differences between different professionals and non-professionals involved (multi-disciplinary team)

This unit develops understanding of the values and principles that underpin the practice of all those who work in health and social care. The essay consider theories and policies that underpin health and social care practice and explore formal and informal mechanisms required to promote good practice by individuals in the workforce, including strategies that can influence the performance of others. The first part of this essay will consider how principles of support are implemented by using Overton house residential care home to evaluate and explain how principles of support are applied. Key concepts such as person-centred approach and dilemmas and conflicts arising from the

Moreover, I have had the opportunity to develop the knowledge, skills and attitude required to lead partnership working that ultimately results in improved patient outcomes. The essential members of the MDT I have worked with include: Registered Nurse, Doctor, Speech And Language Therapist, Social worker, Dietician and Pharmacist. I recognise that each professional has their own area of expertise that can be combined to tackle and challenge complex and diverse needs. To achieve this I have had to communicate effectively, ensuring all discussion and interventions are recorded and monitored on a regular basis. Furthermore, creating opportunities for multi-disciplinary members to get together has enhanced collaboration and communication, as research has shown that regular team meetings and joint decision-making has proved to reduce service user admission to hospital.

Today’s session was conducted by second year placement social work students and service users. The issue they covered was about the relevance of working in partnership within the social care profession.

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).

Ambrose-Miller and Ashcroft (2016) present the article as a "think tank" (p.103) to identify areas that support the inclusion of social workers into an interdisciplinary approach to health care. The authors discuss challenges and ideas about how social workers can respectfully engage colleague's in a collaborative approach that is in line with the Canadian Association of Social Workers (CASW) code of ethics (2005). The social worker's lens assists the team with moving away from a from a medical model of care to a model that is egalitarian (p. 104) and client-centred and meets the diverse needs of the client and the professionals supporting them.

According to Smith (2015), collaborative working promotes shared interest, common vision, goal and commitment. On the other hand, if there is no collaboration it may lead to safeguarding issues and possibility death of service users (Collins & McCray, 2012). Lord Francis (Department of Health, 2013) reported that poor collaborative working at the Mid Staffordshire National Health Service leads to systemic failure consequently leading to poor care of the service users at the hospital. Lord Francis recommends that, the National Health Service should put service user care first.

In order to collaborate successfully with the other members of the team, they have to ‘work together’. Collaboration implies “working together to achieve something that neither agency could achieve alone” (cited by Biggs in Day, 2006, p9). It involves effective communication and contribution to a common goal – and the health and wellbeing of the patient and shared responsibility of the outcome. Each team requires a quality leader, regular meetings attended by all members, joint assessment, regular reviews of patient records which should include ‘shared care plans’; joint decisions following consultation and task delegation to individual team members with the outcome being that “care must be structured, organised and systematically provided to each person in a variety of ways” (Creating an Interprofessional Workforce, 2007, p10).

In this essay I will concentrate on inter-professional collaboration which is cornerstone for providing better care to patients. I will try to examine some benefits and opportunities, while identifying the barriers and issues to effective collaborative work between employees. Throughout my essay I will be using LEARN format for better reflection on my clinical practice, my thoughts and feeling. As a nursing student in Early Identification team which is focused on maternal and children’s health, I will discuss my experience as being a part of this team.

This shows when I am working in my organisation it bound by law to collaborate with a number of stakeholders invested in the client. Therefore, by the social worker analysis the legislation of the organisation they will understand their legal context of practice (Kennedy, Richards & Leiman, 2013). Examining the organisation mission and vision statement will reveal the purpose and goals (Kettner, 2002). For example, the vision statement of Uniting Care Health (2014, para. 2) “we exist to improve the health and wellbeing of individual and their families. We differentiate ourselves by living our values to optimise the patient’s care and experience every day. Thus if I was social worker entering into this organisation I can gather it is service that works with both individuals and families in a health care setting. Furthermore, analysing the organisation auspice will show how it is mandated, which is linked to how it is funded (Gardner,

Collaboration and teambuilding are essential in providing successful care to patients. In fact, evidence shows that collaboration improves patient outcomes overall (Brown, Lindell, Dolansky, & Garber, 2015). Healthcare providers must be able to communicate effectively with one another in order to provide the best quality of care for patients. This paper will define collaboration while differentiating between various forms of collaboration, discuss important characteristics of collaboration, identify barriers to collaboration, and provide an example of collaboration based on the author’s personal experience.

Team work has been defined as a group of people sharing a common goal which can only be achieved by appropriate combinations of individual activities and also a species of cooperation (Gold, 2005). I believe team work to be a vital part of clinical practice as it can improve the quality of care as well as shortened treatment times which is vital in the health care sector. Leggat (2007) proposes how no single health care professional can deliver a complete healthcare experience and acknowledges the crucial role individuals have within teams. The flying start initiative (appendix 2) provides evidence supporting successful attributes required within a multi-disciplinary team (Flying start, 2014). Previous to this Frith-cozen (2001) suggests the effect of teamwork on mortality rates within hospitals, showing that teamwork is of the upmost importance as it can reduce the rate of mortality when teamwork is effective.