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The issue of interprofessional working is currently one of key importance in the field of health and social care (Moyneux, 2001). Using the 6 stages of Gibb’s Reflective cycle (1988) I am going to demonstrate my understanding and explore the importance of interprofessional working as well as discuss barriers and facilitators for team working. A healthcare system that supports effective teamwork can improve the quality of patient care, enhance patient safety and reduce workloads that cause burnout among healthcare professionals (Oandasan, 2006). The 6 stages of Gibb’s cycle include description, feelings, evaluation, analysis, conclusion and action planning for future practice. I am going to reflect on the preparation work which was carried out each week for the group summative presentation and the importance of communication within the group.

Another important aspect of healthcare is effective interprofessional practice. This allows practitioners from different disciplines to work together to provide the best care for patients. There are four areas of competency in interprofessional collaborative practice. They are values/ethics, roles/responsibilities, interprofessional communication, and teams/teamwork (American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 2011). Each of these areas contribute to skilled interprofessional

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

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Interprofessional team collaboration for professional nurses is viewed as a method to improve the care and safety for patients. However, interprofessional team collaboration presents both advantages and challenges for nurses and other team members. One of the advantages is the coordination of care for the patient and the sharing of knowledge to improve the outcomes for the patient. Challenges for interprofessional team collaboration is: poor role-definition, miscommunication, conflict, lack of accountability for assignment of responsibilities and tasks (Reeves, 2012). This paper will discussion the role of a nurse on an interprofessional team and the challenges, why interprofessional teams promote patient safety, and strategies to promote success interprofessional teams.

This report is based on a video provided by the Nursing and Midwifery Council Safeguarding Policies (2010). "Call me Joe" is about an elderly gentleman whose basic needs were being neglected by Health Professionals such as, Care Managers and Health Care Workers. The Reflected Model I will be using in this report will be the ROLFE ET AL model. This model is based upon three simple questions which are, What? So What? and Now What?. "Reflective Practice should be used in all health care settings as it is reflecting on what work you have carried out, what happened during the process and what you could perhaps do differently next time to improve your knowledge and skills" Skills You Need. (2011-2015) BarriersTo Effective Communication. Reflective Practice can relate to Joe because Health Care Professionals should have known that they were carrying out procedures incorrectly and that Joes basic needs were not being met. Evidence Based Practice (EBP) has many definitions but the most common comes from Sacket DL, Rosenberg WMC, Gray JAM and Richardson WS. (1996) Evidence based medicine. This states that " the thorough and open use of Evidence Based Practice is in making decisions about the care of the patient. The Evidence Based practice medicine means combining together professional knowledge within the best interests of the individual through scientific evidence from organised research".

Collaborative practice (Sadler 2004) is at the forefront of health and social care training. For me, like many nursing students, the first steps in collaborative practice were the IPL (interprofessional learning) modules at university. This has been described as two or more professions being taught together as away of cultivating collaborative practice (Caipe. 2010). These modules consisted of student nurses studying different fields, OT’s, radiographers and midwifes. This was the first opportunity I had to meet other professions, who as in any project are the ones who collaborate not the institutions (UKCR 2007). Since then all the IPL modules I have completed have been with adult nursing

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).

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.

It is practically unimaginable nowadays to open a daily paper without perusing that our health administration is under massive strain. The ongoing financing crisis, rising interest and the need to defend quality are consolidating to apply huge weight over the whole system. These difficulties are not restricted to the United Kingdom but rather are confronted by health systems over the world. None of the pressures is probably going to decrease. An increasing population, changing examples of ailment and rising patient desires will all include to the requests the NHS. There is currently wide accord that health care services needs to change significantly to meet these requests. UK NHS, United Kingdom National health service, is the dominating

In 2015, the National Health Service report a rapid rate of increase in the prevalence of obesity, cardiovascular diseases, and type II diabetes across the country (Public Health England, 2015). Data currently shows that 25.6% of the adult population, are currently classified as obese, attributing this rise from 10.6% in 1993 to increase sedimentary lifestyle (Public Health England, 2015). Subsequent work by Egger et al., (2013) identified a critical catalyst for current UK obesity rates, linked to the high consumption of carbonated soft drinks and sugary fruit drinks.

In 2015, the National Health Service report a rapid rate of increase in the prevalence of obesity, cardiovascular diseases, and type II diabetes across the country (Public Health England, 2015). Data currently shows that 25.6% of the adult population, are currently classified as obese, attributing this rise from 10.6% in 1993 to increase sedimentary lifestyle (Public Health England, 2015). Subsequent work by Egger et al., (2013) identified a critical catalyst for current UK obesity rates, linked to the high consumption of carbonated soft drinks and sugary fruit drinks.

Health and Safety Regulations aim to improve safety in workplaces, making employers and employees equally responsible for ensuring that they protect themselves and others from accident and injury. The regulations refer to such things as clean kitchens, safety guards on machinery etc., If an employee is injured at work because of breaches of these rules then compensation can be awarded. Most health and safety legislation places place the responsibility of health and safety on the employers. The responsibilities may however be delegated to other competent persons such as fire warders, first aiders and care takers but the employer still