My Active Experimentation The Skills I Have Learned Through Skill Development Are Communication, Decision Making And Listening Skills

With the development of the nurses understanding, the nurse will be able to clearly communication across relevant information. This will promote patient participation (Tobiano, Marshall, Bucknall, & Chaboyer, 2016) and empower the patients voice by actively involving them in the decision-making process. Per the Health and Disability Act (1994, as cited in Medical Council of New Zealand, n.d) patients should have their treatment explained to them, including the benefits, risks, alternatives and costs; as well as having the option to change their mind at any time. This all contributes to the development of a partnership and ensures that the patient will cooperate with tasks at hand. However, the lack of communication with the patient regarding their treatment can cause severe anxiety and ultimately a breakdown in the trust between the patient and the nurse. The successful implementation of this in practice can be seen in an observational study conducted by Tobiano et al. (2016).

Communication skill help us to perform activities well, in care setting, we must have good communication to communicate with clients and other staff members. It helps us to work with others, e.g. What task needs doing now, how many staff members are needed to do it e.g. Mrs x needs a bed pan, who is going to him or her to provide help in using the hoist to ensure client safety there must be communication to ensure activity is carried out safely. We need interpersonal skills like writing a report, care plans to talk to medical teams like doctors, GP, physio or occupational therapist or other professionals and also to relatives or anyone else involved in the clients care.

Unit 1- D1: Explain how communication skills can be used in health or care environment in effective communication

What communication strengths and skills do you have that are relevant to health and social care work? Share your ideas with class colleagues and discuss ways in which the effectiveness of a person’s communication skills can influence their care practice.

Communication is one of the most vital and effective keys to any profession. It is one thing that is vital to any profession and is highly recommended to be educated for education professions. When your part of a health care profession it involves talking to different cultures and audients, like patients and clients. For all types of the people that you will talk to will receive different types of communication skills. There three types of communication skills, writing, listening, and speaking. These three things are extremely important for communication and with any healthcare provider.

Interprofessional education is defined as interactive educational activities involving two or more professions that foster collaboration to improve patient care (Freeth, Hammick, Koppel, & Reeves, 2002).

Radiologic Technologists, also known as "R.T.s", are professionals who are licensed and certified as specialists in one or more imaging techniques. In the contrary, a Radiologic Technician is a licensed and certified professional who only operates the x-ray imaging equipment to produce clear concise x-ray images for the physicians. A Radiologic Technologist is able to perform all the duties of a Technician. However, they are also tasked and considered as expert for their particular field of specialty.

Those who are admitted to hospitals nowadays either through the emergency department or elective admission usually have multiple and complex health conditions and classically require more than one health professional to address these needs. In today’s hospital settings interprofessional collaboration is being promoted as a holistic means of providing patient centred care and plays an extremely important role in healthcare. It is said to improve the delivery of healthcare by reducing morbidity and mortality by decreasing wait times, improving chronic disease management and promoting patient safety (World Health Organisation, 2010).

It has been said that “effective teamwork and communication in healthcare helps the functioning of the team itself, however, for a patient it is pivotal, and in some cases can be the difference between life and death” (Knox & Simpson, 2004; Mickan, 2005). Inter-professional Education – IPE- can be defined as “occasions when two or more professions learn from and about each other to improve collaboration and the quality of care” (CAIPE, 1997 revised). Therefore, Inter-professional Education is an integral mechanism in establishing the key teamwork and communication skills that will need to be implemented in a healthcare setting in the future as “no one individual will have all the knowledge and skills required to meet the needs of patients” (Reeves et al, 2010). My reflection of this IPE experience will be based upon both the Kolb Cycle (Kolb, 1984) and the Tuckman model (Tuckman, 1965).

A radiologist technician, also known as a radiographers, performs diagnostic imaging examinations such as x-rays, MRI, and CT scans on patients. Radiologist perform medical imaging on injuries such as broken bones, dislocated joints, torn muscles and diseases (Occupational Outlook Handbook). Then they use the radiographic imaging to diagnose the patient with the injury they may have. As a radiologist technician, you start out performing x-ray on patients. To advance in this career you would advance to performing CT scans and MRIs

Healthcare professionals need to provide patients with the necessary knowledge and tools to participate in management decisions about their illness to foster empowerment to comply with their prescribed treatment plan and adherence to self-management behavior.

From this class I understood that Interprofessional Education (IPE) is when two or more profession learn from, with and about each other. This collaboration is important in order to fulfill the patients’ needs that are becoming more complex, multi-faced and challenging day by day. It is also clear to me that no single profession in healthcare can adequately address all the demands of patients. Therefore, partnership between teams is required to provide a safe, timely, effective and equitable patient care. To have a smooth collaboration, it is necessary to learn from each other’s specializations, strength and experiences. In the real world, healthcare is an interdisciplinary team effort to provide the best possible service to a patient based on evidence based practices. Considering this, I had the

A radiologist is a medical specialist, who has had specific postgraduate training in performing and interpreting diagnostic imaging tests and interventional procedures or treatments that involve the use of X-ray, ultrasound, and magnetic resonance imaging equipment. Radiologists are trained to assist other doctors and specialists to treat their patients by making a diagnosis and providing treatment using medical imaging. Radiologists have the medical knowledge to understand and explain your medical problem or symptom through the images or pictures that are taken of various parts of the inside of your body. The tree types of radiology are Diagnostic, Interventional, and Radiation oncology. The Diagnostic imaging uses plain X-ray radiology, computed tomography (CT), magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), ultrasound and nuclear medicine imaging techniques to obtain images that are then interpreted to aid in the diagnosis of disease.

It employs the practices of collaboration and enhanced communication to expand the traditional roles of health workers and to make decisions as a whole unit toward a common goal. Teams assembled for a specific task and include a single discipline or involvement of different practitioner including doctors, pharmacist, psychologist, nurses, social worker and administrative staff. Each practitioner’s rolls vary depending on the required expertise and this quintessential model of nursing helps prevent errors from occurring. Moreover it is essential for patient safety to minimise adverse events caused by miscommunication, misinterpretation of each other roles and in support of patient-centred care, involving their care givers are vital to improve the quality of care such as decision making and consent to treatment. (Sudan 2014)

This will include clear delineation of, and support for, corresponding staff accountability and responsibility. This approach should ensure practices have: • A team based approach to care, in which each team member will be aware of their role and responsibilities for improving the patient’s clinical outcomes; • An accurate record of each patient’s health history; • Supports to assist members of the clinical team in providing evidence based care; • Mechanisms to identify and mitigate clinical risk for the practice, the staff and the patients; • Systems and procedures to learn and share safety lessons and to implement solutions to prevent harm through changes to hospital practice processes; • Strategies to decrease variability in care delivery and outcomes for patients; • Procedures to provide timely and equitable access to care; • Accurate registers of patients with specified chronic conditions; • Systems to manage patients with chronic conditions systematically and to proactively identify those at special risk or those who would benefit from special