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The Institute Of Medicine ( Iom )

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The Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommends five core competencies to help improve the quality of care a patient receives in the health care industry. The five competencies of the IOM are the following “providing patient-centered care (personalization of care), working in interdisciplinary teams, utilizing evidence-based practice, applying quality improvement, and using the informatics system” (Sollecito & Johnson, 2013). First is the ability to apply personalization of care to a patient. Personalization is not easy to teach, but is something that is learned through practice and class recommendations. I say class recommendations because sometimes situations will occur where a trained medical person has been taught if this occurs here is how to approach the situation. For instance, here in Detroit the medical staff have been exposed to people that are in need of medical attention after being shot. Yes, it is a stressful situation, but they do receive training in a classroom to help them through that situation, but most of the experience comes with on the job training working within the “team” of staff working on the trauma. The concept can be taught, but having a mock training for the situation helps too, which will lead to the person knowing what to do in the situation. Consequently, since the person knows what to do in the situation they can develop a rapport with the patient, thus making the patient feel as if they were treated well by the staff. In addition, my example

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