Reflection On Interprofessional Collaboration

As lifelong learning continues, it is important to focus on patients and family outcomes through teamwork collaboration, advocating, effective communication, and equally, self-driven to accomplish goals to create and coordinate activities to promote professional development, is why I have chosen to apply for the ambulatory nurse educator

Nurses and physicians need to express themselves in a clear and precise manner, their message should rely on verification and collaborative problem solving. They need to displaying a calm and supportive demeanor under stress, maintenance of mutual respect, and authentic understanding of the unique role (Robinson, Gorman, Slimmer, Yudkowsky, 2010). Not everyone was born being able to express themselves in such a manner, therefore providing the necessary education and skills will help both nurses and physicians gain the confidence and competence they need to work

Creating value through collaboration has been a topic of concern over the last 50 years as the spending in health care has increased. The goal is to provide quality and affordability and because of past efforts, enrollment increased drastically while it created a shortage of providers. Integrating behavioral and medical health has not been properly addressed due to stigmas and lack of education. Behavior health is more common today and costly. In efforts to integrate and improve patient outcomes and provider experiences there are many ways to achieve this goal such as train medical providers, train behavioral practioniers and embed behavioral providers in primary care settings.

In an effort to create more efficient and effective health care services, decision makers and organizational leaders have looked to the implementation of interprofessional healthcare teams to deliver care together as opposed to the traditional model of healthcare delivery one that sees practitioners working alone in silos (Tomblin Murphy, Alder, MacKenzie & Rigby, 2010; Weinberg, Cooney-Miner, Perloff, Babington, & Avgar, 2011). In 2008, the World Health Organization (WHO) Study Group on Interprofessional Education (IPE) and Collaborative Practice (IPC) created a set of definitions to assist the health researchers, educators, policy developers, decision makers and others in developing IPE and IPC in their jurisdictions to both build capacity

An example of the importance of interprofessional training is that when a physical therapist works with a patient in the hospital. If the patient is in too much pain or is sleepy from the medication the physical therapist will not be able to accomplish much. However, if the physical therapist contacts the nurses beforehand and informs them of the time he will arrive to work with a patient, the nurse could make accommodations. This would allow the patient to accomplish the physical therapist’s intended tasks for the day and the patient’s recovery time could decrease exponentially. Many patient’s care relies on their health care team effectively cooperating and acting as a cohesive unit for the patient to experience optimal

A patient and nurse interact and communicate and form an interpersonal system that is affected by situational factors in the environment (Alligood, 2013). Alligood (2013) also identifies the fundamental concepts of this theory as: perception, communication, interaction, transaction, self, role, growth and development, stress/stressors, coping, time, and personal space. These come from the personal and interpersonal system concepts. While the personal and social systems effect patient outcomes, the system that seems to have the biggest influence on this is the interpersonal system.

From clinician to automotive marketing to professor, the broad experience of Amber Fitzsimmons, PT, MS, DPTSc, demonstrates the diversity that interprofessional education (IPE) at UC San Francisco aims to exemplify. An assistant professor with joint appointments in the School of Medicine’s Department of Anatomy and the Department of Physical Therapy (PT) and Rehabilitation Science, Dr. Fitzsimmons serves as the PT lead in the IPE program at UCSF. The UCSF Program for IPE (PIPE) was created to enable students from different fields to interact and learn in a way that prepares them for the seamless teamwork of interprofessional collaborative practice that successful modern patient care delivery requires. “The goal is to learn about and from each

• Interdependent nursing intervention- The result of collaboration between coworkers or consultation. An example of this would be if a patient was consuming a high sodium diet and the nurse includes diet counseling and has a registered dietician educate the patient on a proper diet and its benefits. 6. List the pros and cons related to the use of nursing diagnoses.

Today’s patients are more diverse, have more complex health needs and typically require more than one discipline to address issues regarding their health status. These increasing needs have brought about the emergence of interprofessional communication and collaboration. The most effective communication occurs when health care professional work in tandem and better enable them to address these complex and challenging needs of their patients. This interprofessional approach allows sharing of expertise and perspectives to form a common goal of improving outcomes.

On Grace Hospital’s website, the hospital doesn’t list their own mission, vision, and values statements. Instead, Grace Hospital has referenced the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority’s own mission, vision, and values statements. Mission Statement The Winnipeg Regional Health Authority’s mission statement is “to co-ordinate and deliver safe and caring services that promote health and well-being.” At Grace Hospital, there is a need to work collaboratively in order to provide patient-centred care to our patients. This involves the coordination of services by various health care providers including physicians, nurses, and allied health professionals.

Interprofessional teamwork has become essential part of health care system in order to improve the quality of care. Many researches has suggested that collaboration of health care workers has impacted the patient care outcome in a positive way, as well as assisting to avoid errors by, “watching each other’s backs” (Cherry & Jacob, p 398). Furthermore, “Important indicators of safety, patient care, and environment of care, such as complications and error rate, length of hospital stay, conflict among caregivers, staff turnover, and mortality rate, have all been shown to decrease in collaborative care environment” (Green & Johnson, 2015, p. 2) In recent years, nurses are in front line in running health care in USA. According to Lomax and White (2015), the Institute of Medicine (IOM) published the report stating that in order to provide safe and high-quality care, it is crucial for nursed to collaborate with other health care professionals (para. 6).

Introduction Multi-disciplinary healthcare teams are important and critical in developing the comprehensive care and treatment for patients. Communication is indispensable for providing comprehensive services. One big challenge of communication between different parties in teams is causing the potential for conflict. Most of the organizations are inevitable encountering conflict and the clinical healthcare setting is no exception (Almost, 2006; Pavlakis et al., 2011). The term conflict is described as a dynamic process underlying a wide variety of organizational behavior occurs whenever interdependent parties pursue incompatible goals, incompatible relationships or scarce resources which develop between two or more individuals in an organization

Over the years I have learned to participate without feeling the need to dominate the situation. I have also learned to trust others to contribute to group work and do their part. Throughout this facilitation process I felt an unusual sense of powerlessness, a lack of control over both the content, as well as the presentation and I often felt as though I wasn’t heard, or that my opinion didn’t matter. There was too much noise and confusion with other members desperately needing to control things. However, upon reflecting on this facilitation process I have come to realize that at the bedside in nursing I will be interacting with some very strong personalities, in particular frightened and frustrated patients and family members.

When you are the nurses that is having a predicament that you cannot leave, your other patients are on the back of your mind, and you are hoping the others are helping them if they need it. It is great to know that the others on the team support you, and will help you when you need it. Teamwork assures that all of the patients are receiving care and stay safe while their primary nurse assists with a more urgent

For example, in the health care provider field, the nurses should collaborate with the other health care professional like the doctor, pharmacist, physiotherapy or the radiography in order to achieve the common goal which for the patient’s