Patient Care Team Analysis

Wide reaching, nurses significantly outnumbered physicians as providers of health care often having utmost vast reach remoteness to underserved communities. Having personally lived in one of the underserved communities in my hometown Western Africa before moving to the United States of America and my life calling to be a nurse from a young age with the deep desire to make a difference. I plan to contribute and continue to contribute immensely to the underserved communities by delivering quality health care to remote regions around the world. I do volunteer service at several clinics in the Atlanta area with many well-known Emory physicians that care for homeless and underserved populations, these volunteer experiences provide me with opportunities and fulfillment to develop added headship skill and experience to meet my daily patients, needs.

Fostering teamwork and engaging direct care nurses can have a real impact on patient safety and decreasing complications. By utilizing shared governance, councils at Cedars Sinai were shown to decrease patient falls and acquired pressure ulcers. Increased communications allowed for successes found at one unit-based council to be shared to improve outcomes system-wide (Swanson & Tidwell, 2011). Additionally, promoting a culture where underperforming is not acceptable helps to improve

What rating would you give the team out of 10 (10 being the highest level of success)? What factors do you think contributed to the level of success your team achieved when success is defined as the creation of a resource that has authority and is user-friendly and the degree to which you worked effectively as a team. Provide specific examples from your experience to illustrate these factors.

During the two and a half years of my pharmacy journey, I have been thinking what can a pharmacist do within the healthcare interprofessional team to better help the patients in order to achieve the best health outcome. I work in a clinic as well as inpatient pharmacy, additionally, I had my rotations at CVS and Regions Hospital. all these experiences shape my version of the pharmacists at different settings. Therefore, in various pharmacy settings, pharmacists can work differently with the whole healthcare team. The recent PED-Rx events inspired me how important pharmacists can play roles in when working in a team.

“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

Health care has evolved and is continuously evolving. The management of care now involves different clinicians to better assess, diagnose and cure a patient. The clinicians evolved from a general practitioner to a team now comprised of Physician’s Assistant, Nurse, License Practical Nurse and Specialists. These health care professionals now compose a team of health care providers that are essential in a patient’s over all health care. The team-based approach is a delivery system that provides a patient an all-encompassing health care delivery system. “ By practicing in a team-based care model, physicians and other

I’ve been a nurse for over 11 years, primarily as a staff nurse on the medical/surgical and intensive care units at the local hospital. During this time I’ve worked closely with other team members including nurse educators, nurse specialists, and nurse practitioners. All of these advanced practice nurses displayed a significant degree of knowledge and compassion regarding patient care. Like myself, they all also have a tremendous amount of passion for influencing patients to improve their health and thereby improve their lives and have the best outcomes possible during illnesses. While I imagine even physicians want to help all people and at some point, we all feel we are destined to save the world, the nurses I’ve encountered work to put this into practice.

Such a structure revolves around clinical leadership dyads, or pairs of part-time physician-leaders teamed with full-time nurse administrators, based within geographic regions. The majority of the physicians involved in care delivery were independent, community-based practitioners motivated by shared professional values emphasizing high quality service and satisfying patients' needs. Their dyads regularly reviewed data on delivery costs and service outcomes, and they collaborated with one another throughout the IHC system to indentify improvement opportunities and share best practices. Equipped with sound evidence and empowered by management, the dyads formed shared baselines and drove initiatives that dramatically lowered healthcare costs by reducing the incidence of overused procedures, such as elective inductions and unplanned surgical deliveries.

In order to fully explore the nature of team work in healthcare it is importance to first look at what defines a team.A team can be defined as two or more people with specific roles working together to achieve a common purpose(Kalisch & Begeny, 2005). For

In the past, a team that comes to mind is a clinical treatment team several years ago that I was a part of as a manager. A treatment team consisted of social workers, clinicians, group home staff and parents. One particular client that I was working with came to the group home with oppositional behaviors, running away from home and very aggressive. The client was untrusting of adults and hated attending school. The group home was a very structured setting with staff that worked in shifts to supervise the clients and work on their treatment goals. The treatment team met every thirty days to review the progress of the client to determine if the client was progressing or needed higher level of care. After months of working the program, attending

After watching the video of the patient care team at Christiana Care's Wilmington Hospital intensive care unit demonstrates the patient and family centered care practice of interdisciplinary rounds at the bedside, I (recreated), used ,the assessment tool for group dynamics to evaluate the group functioning (Christiana Care, 2012, Video). Overall the rating of the group function was rated acceptable however there three areas that received low scale rating (2.0) according to the key provided, (in some areas), those areas were Communications, Leadership and Situation (Team Dynamics Assessment Tool, 2012 and Christiana Care, 2012, Video).

Teamwork is vital in healthcare.  When all participants are engaged in a program, goals are successfully achieved. Being able to communicate and work collectively as a team requires an appreciation for each other’s area of practice.  Every team member has an important role and being acknowledged provides a sense of responsibility and accountability. Essentially, inter-professional collaboration helps ensure that the patient is getting care that is not only accessible but also comprehensive.  The plan of a patients’ care includes active participation by all health care professionals working interdependently in accordance to the patient’s preferences, values and beliefs. The health care team accomplishes the goal of meeting the patient’s medical needs by delivering evidence-based practice.   To deliver quality care, the patient should always be involved.

Community-focus and patient advocacy are two values that hold importance in my life. For community-focus, I know that giving back to the community has been an essential part of my routine since middle school. Recently, I have been volunteering at the homeless shelter and Red Cross, in order to assist those who are struggling get back on their feet. Furthermore, being involved in the community can alleviate health care problems, and future costs associated with health care, for each individual. Improving the characteristics of our community can provide a template for other communities to improve as well. Patient advocacy is also an integral value because our patients always come first, and we should instill care that promotes their well-being,

I think Nurses and Socal workers are an important part of the health care team. To start with everyone needs nurses wether it's in a hospital a clinic or just in life. Nurses are the ones that provide a safe and comfortable stay, they give the patient asssureance that everythinh will be okay and positive results are to come. Nurses give the patient that positive outlook or that little push for sense of confidence the patient needs to get through....ive alwayss been told "positive thinking leads to positive outcomes". My second heath team member would be social workers within the hospital, I feel these people are needed greatly to deal with difficult situtions that family members are dealing with. For example a death in a family the social

Teams working in a hospital or other healthcare setting may consist of several physicians, nurses, medical assistants, referral coordinators, pharmacists, therapists, and students among others. Such large teams can provide comprehensive care for complex and chronic illnesses, but when they fail to work well together, they