Essay On Inter Professional Event

The purpose of the Inter-professional Event was to develop team skills among various health professionals. Thus, the three main concepts that I found was useful in the session were; first is the teamwork because by working as a team in healthcare will help us keep our patient safe; the second is communication because it will help us to minimize our mistakes; and the third is pre-briefing because it will keep the team members on a same page so that everyone will have the same goals. One of the examples about the PAN-AM air jet discussed by Dr. Cohen in his lecture has allowed me to understand that if the co-pilot has raised his voice at that time, then he could have saved many peoples ' lives; therefore, it is important to always speak up. One thing that I have learned from one of the group activities called “tallest

There were many issues that have interested me a lot and that I would like to study in more detail is that as a human we all make mistakes and we sometimes don’t listen to what the other person is trying to say which can be a cause of many inadvertent problems, therefore, we should always remember that when we are working as a team, it should not matter how well trained, motivated or professional we are if there is human involved then errors are inevitable. We can improve the situations and resolve issues by utilizing team skills and interpersonal skills such as make eye contact with team members, try to use names, explain the procedure, explain risk factors, make sure protocols and ask questions to check understanding. Because of communication barriers, team members sometimes make false assumption and misconceptions. There was a term used by Dr. Cohen in his lecture that has interested me a lot called “turfs/Silos” which means the barriers between members because of competition, it can be life-threatening for the