Different Roles And Responsibilities Of Healthcare Professionals

1. In your own words, define professionalism and how it relates to you as a health care provider? The essay must be limited to 250 words.

Daniel Friesen stated that she was in a situation where her professional expertise was undermined which negatively impacted patient care, a situation that could have been avoided with mutual and professional respect between HCPs4. As well, in a recent study conducted by McMaster University, students in medical school and the physiotherapy program were asked to engage in a 10 week study with 3 hour sessions of academic IPE including presentations on scope, case studies, and dissections with one another1. As a result, students had gained positive insight into the scopes of other disciplines that helped them better understand and respect the HCP’s role in patient care1. This study showed a decrease in professional bias and increase in learning and interaction with other students1,2,3. Academic IPE has shown to increase health care team performance because participants show greater understanding of other professional scopes, strengths, and skills that results in an effective team2,3. Therefore, academic IPE allows for open-communication and interaction with students from varying professional disciplines that increases respect for other HCPs that they will most likely encounter in their

Moreover, this class allows for my vision to be realized; skills to be improved and achievements to be gained. Learning how to market oneself, network and build professional relationship between doctors, nurses and healthcare staff members begin is present within this course. Participating in career development within the course may prepare me for future Advanced Nurse Practitioner

Interprofessional Education, IPE event took place on July 22nd, 2016. The purpose of IPE is for us to learn how to work together as a health care team effectively collaborating with other health care members. In order to do so, each individual needed to understand not only his or her role and responsibility of a given role but also other team members’ roles and responsibilities. In our event, it was Interprofessional Health care Team Simulation with roles of a registered practical nurse and a Food Service supervisor, and a registered social worker and a personal support worker and a patient and her family member. We were given the scenario with the patient, Mrs. Johnston, 93 years old resident of a nursing home. My role was a RPN. The situation given was that we were asked by the patient’s family member to have a meeting with the health care team since her family member was concerned about her declining health status accompanied by her body weight loss.

As time goes by, people get infected with new diseases or current prevailing diseases. Consequently, new drugs are produced in an attempt to overcome these diseases, which results in patients with complex health needs. The complexity of the patients’ healthcare therefore needs to be addressed by more than one discipline. Interprofessional collaborative care is a type of health care that involves people from different professions working together and relying on each other to provide effective care to patients. Interprofessional collaborative care is important and predominantly a focus of the health care reform because it improves healthcare outcome for the patients and reduces disagreements between different professions. I was able to experience interprofessional care when my grandma was diagnosed with cancer. The physician and the pharmacist worked together in ensuring that she got the proper medication that would not have any side effects on her. In addition, the physician would call the pharmacy every two weeks to check on my grandma’s progress and to ensure that she had picked up her medications. Both my grandma and I were grateful because we felt that our needs were taken care of appropriately. Moreover, interprofessional health care is important in a curriculum because if helps the students to be better prepared to work as a team. This is achieved by teaching students about their own profession while receiving an understanding of the other professions and the roles they

As a scholar and leader in the area of medicine, it is imperative to understand how to work as a team to provide the best possible care to patients. “Educators are responding to complexities of today’s medical knowledge by developing educational programs based on current learning theories, such as enactivism, where learning takes place within teams that are actively engaged in clinical environments” (Davidson, Morgan, & Simons, 2012, p. 291). This results in more patients that can place their trust in physicians and nurses who know how to work together as a team.

Attending the “Interprofessional Education” (IPE) session was extremely beneficial and informational for me as an occupational therapy (OT) student. It was beneficial for me for one of two reasons: first it enabled me to inform and educate other professional students about OT. We are told in our program that many professions are unaware of what we do, and that we have to continuously advocate and educate others on what we do and why our profession is so important, in order to remain a profession. I was surprised to discover that so many different professions had never heard of OT. Many students thought OT was a branch of physical therapy, a career finding profession or had heard of OT but had no idea what it was. Secondly, it was beneficial for me to learn exactly what other professionals are doing and hear what their goals were in improving client care. Knowing what other professionals do will benefit my career so that I know who is writing the referrals and where I can refer my clients if needed to. In addition, when working on a health care team, aiming to be client centered, it is critical for each profession to be knowledgeable of one another so that each client is getting the maximal and most beneficial care needed.

I feel a positive part of this learning experience was everybody being respectful of one another. The key skill involved in this was listening and also not being judgmental. I personally feel having an open mind about others professionals roles was a skill I developed. I feel I learnt and developed more respect for the roles other healthcare professionals have. Another positive aspect was everybody understanding the team goal and what we were aiming to achieve.

“Hey I’m going to need you to stay over a few extra hours” is something that most workers hear more often than not. Working long shifts without a break can drain you mentally and physically. There are many cases of workplace bullying. There are also various amounts of websites dedicated to helping victims of workplace bullying. A personal interview with Amber Mann, a 20-year-old coworker of mine at Sunset Village Retirement Homes, talked about how poor treatment at work affects how she perseveres through the grueling hours of a horrible work week. How you get treated at work can affect how you work, your mood and your all around feelings of being there.

Costs and financial constraints also play a major role in limiting the scope of IPEs. (Pecukonis, Doyle & Bliss, 2008) Communication and collaboration among health professionals are impeded by a general lack of understanding of the roles of various professions. More effective one-on-one education and interaction on a personal level between team members can help to facilitate passing of information from the health professional to another. In addition, many students view interprofessional education in a negative light due to prejudices towards other professions.

In my NUR-301 Class, I had the opportunity to practice on Interprofessional Education. Our nursing student team was partnered with first year pharmacy school students to learn about each other professions and to study on how we could work in a team of healthcare professionals to attain a common goal. As this was my first time experience to meet other students from a different department of Notre Dame of Maryland University, I was not sure what to expect from our discussions. Even if I have some experiences working both in hospitals and in a pharmacy, I was no fully aware of the responsibilities of a pharmacist directly to the patient or to the healthcare field specialists.

I believe the best way to take care of patients is through education. Through education, patients gain a better idea of their circumstance and have the ability to take control over their health. Using sincerity, professionalism, humor, and approachability, educating a patient can be done in an effect manner. I have seen these qualities in action during my observations, and I believe that I possess these traits and have the ability to further develop them. Through these attributes, I hope that I can become a humble and well-respected occupational

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My job as a physician office assistant requires that I aid patients in scheduling appointments, checking in for their appointments, and checking out of their appointments. The topic that I learned that can be beneficial to my communication with patients is the

I decided to search for an experience that looked deeper into the field of physical therapy that would provide me with a unique experience other prospective students may not have. This led me to researching what the profession needed to do to provide the best care possible that would leave an individual satisfied with every visit. I found that there were numerous challenges facing the physical therapy profession but I was intrigued in how the healthcare insurance limitations, personal finances, and actual time spent with the physical therapist could all potentially alter the quality of care a patient received. For this reason, my path toward becoming a physical therapist started. I knew that as a future physical therapist my career goal will be to ensure quality of care takes priority to improve the patient’s quality of