Supporting Role (IPCP/CPE)

The successful evolution of this organizational structure in a competitive marketplace has required a close partnership between managers and physicians supported by a culture of physician group accountability for quality and efficiency. An overarching agenda for achieving excellence focuses on high-impact health conditions, provides goal-oriented tools to analyze population data, proactively identifies patients in need of intervention, supports systematic process improvements, and promotes collaboration between patients and professionals to improve health.

A third strength of my leadership practice is my ability to meet the goals of the organization in a timely matter. The trust that I have for our CEO allows me to challenge any of my assignments enough to clarify the needed outcomes and then I become fully supportive. With the weakened state of the healthcare systems across the nation, it is imperative that my team and I are responsive and quick to take action when called upon. The fact of the

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

As a way to promote interprofessional collaborative practice the HPHA IPC model recommends the implementation of an Interprofessional practice council, unit action councils, interdisciplinary care plans, documentation, and “bullet” rounds (HPHA Interprofessional Practice Model, 2010). Similarly, Weller, Boyd and Cumin recommend supporting interprofessional collaboration with protocols and procedures, using procedures that encourage information sharing among the whole team, such as checklists, briefings and IT solutions (2014).

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

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).

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).

There are good leaders and those who represent exceptional leadership. In healthcare, privileging, ongoing performance measures, monitoring, etc. is competency driven. Today’s healthcare organizations are becoming more sophisticated in their approach to leadership development and succession planning. Often leadership competencies serve as the framework, which produces the varying levels of sophistication aligned with management practices, e.g. performance evaluations and performance needs. These attributes also make a difference throughout the organization, e.g. quality, employee engagement, patient safety, financial and community impact.

The football is thrown; it is in the air, going into the end zone. Wait, where is the other player? Football is a teamwork sport. One person does not win championships, the team working together as one does. Healthcare is no different. Today’s world of healthcare relies on nurses, doctors, pharmacist, and the whole healthcare system to work together to form a common goal; the goal of making our society healthier. Through collaboration, we can succeed in that goal.

After took in consideration many peer review articles, I have been reflexed in how important is the interprofessional care in the health care environment. The interprofessional care benefits either patients or health professionals. It can be define as the collaboration of more than two disciplines in the health profession working together to provide better patient care (Engel & Prentice, 2013). For example, there are many complex diseases that require the attention of different specialists. A patient can be

Lastly, the fourth concept is collaboration, which involves policy and program development, implementation, and evaluation; health care facility design; professional education, and lastly delivery of care, this is a joint effort shaped from patients, families, and healthcare providers functioning in an organized method (Ramezani, et. al., 2014). Examples of how collaboration is exercised in the clinical setting are through regulating care plans, and interprofessional

Interprofessional collaboration is the partnership between a team of health professionals in a collaborative and coordinated approach to achieve shared decision making around health and social issues. Interprofessional collaborative practice is defined as a process which includes communication and decision-making, enabling a synergistic influence of grouped knowledge and skills. The key elements of collaborative practice include responsibility, accountability, coordination, communication, cooperation, assertiveness, autonomy, and mutual trust and respect. It is within this partnership that creates an Interprofessional team who work to achieve common goals to improve patient outcomes and quality of care (Bridges et al, 2011).

The healthcare industry was targeted specifically because it faces challenging hurdles to effective leadership development; “CEOs believe there is a shortage of healthcare leaders who are prepared to assume executive roles in the future.” (242)

To begin with, several key characteristics are derived from team building. Collaboration is a co- operative progression where individuals from various backgrounds work collectively towards a mutual benefit (Abdulaziz Al-Sawai, 2013). In relation to the healthcare system, the mutual benefit is delivering care to the patient by meeting their specific professional criteria. Research has shown that the in- cooperation of multiple disciplinary perspectives, delivers a variety of knowledge and skill, which is beneficial to the patient (Mitchell et al., 2012). However, uncoordinated team care failure could potentially increase medical errors and place the patients’ life at risk (Rutherford, 2012). For example, radiographers cannot work in

It is recognized that teamwork is essential for patient safety and one of the most important facilitators in achieving positive cost effective outcomes (Austin et.al, 2012). However, teamwork in healthcare can be defined as "a dynamic process involving two or more health professionals with complementary backgrounds and skills, sharing common health goals and exercising concerted physical and mental effort in assessing, planning, or evaluating patient care" (Xyrichis and Ream,