Introduction
In today’s health care system it is important that students are educated and are also collaborative practice-ready when working with other health care professionals to achieve consistency, continuous and reliable care for their patients (Wood, Flavell, Vanstolk, Bainbridge & Nasmith, 2009). Interprofessional education is this concept that teaches students to work and learn by effectively collaborating with other health care professionals to maximise their potential as a profession (WHO, 2010). This in turn will teach students to be work-force ready to share his or her professional knowledge whilst understanding and being respectful of others’ work. This strengthens the workforce as it allows health professionals to make quick, informed decisions as it arises resulting in the delivery of the highest standard quality of care to their patients. Interprofessional education and team collaboration plays an important role in overcoming many challenges faced in the health industry. By understanding the concept of interprofessional education and collaboration, this will help to maximise the professionals’ skills leading to the provision of high and effective quality of care to achieve improved health outcomes (WHO, 2010). In order for the health care system to provide optimal and safe patient care, a number of mechanisms can be implemented to achieve this. Team collaboration and effective communication are the two factors that will provide safe and quality patient care (Gum, Prideaux, Sweet & Greenhill, 2012). An environment with a strong, collaborative working culture will reduce the communication barriers and will in turn decrease the conflicts that may arise within patient care.
Communication
Effective communication is one...
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...his common goal, conflicts can be resolved by collaboration (Marshall, n.d.). This is because when people work together they are able to share their views and opinions which encourages them to learn from other members to find a common resolution (Marshall, n.d.).
Conclusion
True collaboration requires effective communication between the team members in a health care environment. This will allow in the reduction of clinical errors whilst maximising patient’s care. In order for this to occur each of the members must have an understanding of each other’s roles so that mutual respect and trust can be gained. With this understanding, the team members are able to work collaboratively to combat conflicts when they arises in the workplace. Educational programs are put in place to provide further support for all staff to ensure that collaboration grows within the industry.
This involves working together to generate win-win alternatives for resolving issues (Robin, 2002). Collaborating involves high to moderate skill levels of parties, clear clarity of both goals, strong status of relationships, Win-Win attitude toward authority, low concerns for formalities and traditions, and a high self-concept.
Using examples involving human service workers, discuss how interprofessional practice is defined. Discuss the barriers to interprofessional practice and how these might be addressed.
rofessionals from different disciplines collaborating to provide care to patients. Effectively coordinated and collaborative inter-professional teams are essential to the care and treatment of patients (Rowlands & Callen, 2013; Doyle, 2008; Ruhstaller, Roe, Thürlimann & Nicoll, 2006; Simpson & Patton, 2012, p. 300). Communication is a process of conferring information between individuals through use of speech, writing or various other means, and is critical to the success of a multidisciplinary team (MDT) (Higgs, McAllister & Sefton, 2012, p. 5; Rowlands & Callen, 2013; Sargeant, Loney & Murphy, 2008). An MDT must use multiple strategies to enhance communication and ensure their success (Doyle, 2008). An effective MDT generates opportunities that benefit healthcare, which is the reason for the recent dominance of inter-professional care in health practice (Simpson & Patton, 2012, p. 300; Rowlands & Callen, 2013). Many barriers prevent effective communication within inter-professional teams. Lack of communication within MDTs presents challenges to their success, leading to numerous consequences, including the failure of the MDT (London Deanery, 2012; Sargeant et al, 2008). Communication between professionals is the key factor underpinning the potential success or failure of inter-professional teams, the outcome of the functioning of MDTs will either benefit or impair care of patients.
By working together there is information sharing, improve safety and quality also collaboration gives knowledge to other professionals. (Littlechild and Smith, 2013).what I have learned through working in partnership with other professionals was creating a poster related to what each professional does. Some of the professionals I did not know how exactly they work together in partnership. Example: I was not aware of how a radiology would work with a social work and the outcome of that was that Radiology develop and maintain collaborative relationship with medical colleagues and participates in regular meetings with other professionals activities to meet the needs of a service users therefore they collaborate with Social Workers. By doing a poster and delivering information I learned a lot from the other team members, shared experiences knowledge and skills with other group members. Group work made me realise how it is very important to work in multi-displinary team, the benefit of it and what others can benefit from. During the poster each of the student was from different professional however we all had the question but each had to look at it in each profession perspectives. This gave an opportunity to everyone to go and search for each professional and communicate with the rest of the group the outcome of the presentation. By doing that, we exchanged ideas learned from each other’s skills and used it into practice. I have learned about sharing information with others, learned about communication and
Nurses should foster collaborative planning to provide safe, high-quality, patient-centered health care. As nurses, we probably know the patients the best since we spend much more time with them than any other members of the care team. We are the liaison between the patient and the rest of the care team. We need to identify a potential problem or issue, and bring it to the attention of the whole care team. We should facilitate mutual trust, respect, shared decision-making, and open communication among all relevant persons in the care of the patients. With the collaborative support of the whole care team, the patients are in a much better position and are more likely to make an informed and deliberate decision. Besides, the collaboration among the care team can facilitate communication among the care providers, and provide a channel for the care providers to vent their stress caused by the ethical dilemmas that they encounter in work. The support from peers is very important for care providers to maintain their emotional and psychological
“Physicians and other health care professionals all agree on the importance of effective communication among the members of a health care team. However, there are many challenges associated with effective interprofessional (between physicians and other health care providers) communication, and these difficulties sometimes lead to unfavourable patient outcomes” (Canadian Medical Protection Association, 2011 p. 11).
The practice of using inter-professional teams in delivering care is not a new concept but current health policy requires professionals work within a multidisciplinary team Department of Health (2001) and entrenched in the Nursing and Midwifery Council (2008) Code. The principle focus of this essay is to discuss the importance of inter-professional collaboration in delivering effective health care and what challenges and constraints exist. The integration of a case study will give an insight into inter-professional collaboration in practice.
Reflecting upon interprofessional education (IPE), hands on experience is vital for health care students across the Faculty of Health Sciences so that they may continue to develop better communication skills, enhance performance and develop conflict resolution capability in a team situation. Looking back on the online “Stroke and Depression” IPE workshop that was conducted as interprofessional group work has allowed me to gain not only the knowledge about stroke and depression but also the knowledge, skills and attributes required for interprofessional (IP) collaboration practice. My IPE team consisted of one medical scientist, four speech pathologist, two psychology students and three nursing students including myself. This analytical
Working in the health care setting, teamwork and collaboration are used frequently to insure that everything runs correctly and efficiently. According to qsen.org, teamwork and collaboration consists of functioning effectively within nursing and inter-professional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision-making to achieve quality patient care. While assessing the patient a nurse can come into contact and work with many different individuals. These can include other nurses, doctors, therapists, and family
I partook in an inter-professional education (IPE) module, its primary aim was to develop the knowledge and skills required for professional practice, on both an academic and personal level to enable students of different healthcare professions to work in unison in order to augment the treatment of patients. The World Health Organization (WHO) (2010) describes how IPE involves students from different fields of learning working collaboratively which creates a two-way learning system for students leading to developments in health care.
Professional collaboration is an important aspect regarding patient safety in the medical field. This is a time when different kinds off professionals collaborate with one another about a patient’s health status and condition. “Specifically, Interprofessionality is a process by which professionals reflect on and develop ways of practicing that provides an integrated and cohesive answer to the needs of the client/family/population…(involving) continuous interaction and knowledge sharing between professionals” (Black, 2014). The collaboration of different professionals allow for a better decision to be made towards the patient’s health outcomes.
Intro- Collaboration with the interdisciplinary team plays a big part in the care of a patient.
Because interprofessional teams meet and discuss the goals of the patient, it improves the care of the patients by increasing the coordination of services. There is a more efficient use of time when all the team members are on the same page and want to meet the same goal. Additionally, interprofessional team care will highly benefit patients as professionals can gather the services or resources that apply to the patient for a better quality care. Social workers make a great addition to an interprofessional health care team because social workers can help patients feel empowered when it comes to decisions made as a
Collaboration is the foundation to success in any team. In the healthcare setting, interprofessional collaboration (IC) has been a significant trademark among numerous highly successful innovations. Collaboration between nurses and other healthcare providers improves the quality of care, coordination, and communication between the team leading to increased patient safety. Working in a team to achieve common goals implies open communication, respect for others, mutual trust, and honesty. The purpose of this paper is to discuss the meaning of interprofessional collaboration, its implications for practice, describe the role of IC in the provision of patient and family-centered care,
1. Inter- professional education or IPE is essential in today’s growing health field. IPE is the act of students from different health related professions coming together to study. This type of education facilitates the collaboration of multiple professions in interprofessional practice, in turn improving health outcomes for patients in interprofessional care. Research is limited on the effectiveness of IPE relating to the changes in a patient’s outcomes when its used.