The World Health Organization (WHO) defines interporfessional practice in health care as occurring “when multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds provide comprehensive services by working with patients, their families, caregivers, and communities to deliver the highest quality of care across settings.” (WHO, 2010 pp. 7). For my interprofessional reflection I chose to discuss my work experience at Canadian Blood Services (CBS) working as a distribution lab assistant. CBS works with volunteers and patients, and are involved in all steps of blood processing from collection, testing and manufacturing, blood components and stem cells to knowledge and creation of health care research (CBS, 2015). My role at CBS was the distribution …show more content…
Hospitals all over Saskatchewan would fill out an order form and fax the form to CBS and we would send the blood to the hospital as they requested it. This seems like a simple task but there were many times where we did not have the exact product the hospital required and would have to work with other health care professionals to decide what was best for the patients. Due to the fact CBS did not have the supply every hospital needed, this required an extensive knowledge of blood products on the lab assistant’s part to determine what products would be an adequate substitute. Many times the nurses, physicians and MLTs I talked with did not like the idea of a substitute product for their patients, and argued for what they believed was best for their patients. This could become very frustrating, but understanding and collaboration was necessary for both myself, and the other health care …show more content…
MLTs managed the blood bank at larger hospital and nurses managed the blood bank at smaller hospitals. As well, at CBS RNs also collected the blood from volunteers, and the RNs would bring down the blood to my department, and together we would check through the units, and make sure they units were the right size and all units were present. Nurses also had a responsibility to administer the blood to patients at the hospital, and to report back to CBS if there were any adverse reactions. Nurses were also required to work with lab assistants at CBS if they required a unique delivery of blood products. For example, I worked closely with a nurse at a rural hospital to deliver platelets for a cancer patient. This was quite a complex situation because platelets only have a 3-day shelf life, and this hospital had no place to store the product. The nurse and I worked together to develop a delivery plan for the platelets so the patient did not have to go to a larger center away from their home to receive the blood
The interprofessional team model is a group comprised of various healthcare disciplines working together towards common goals to meet the needs of the patient population. The World Health Organization (WHO) defines interprofessional collaboration in healthcare as occurring “when multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds provide comprehensive services by working with patients, their families, and communities to deliver the highest quality of care across settings” (WHO, 2010, p.13). In my final practicum at I have experienced interprofessional collaboration, while involved with the methadone program at Rosthern Hospital. Nurses have an important role in the methadone program, and the involvement of nurses in the program
It was during this time that doctors and nurses, through experience also demonstrated that blood could be stored and then safely transferred from patient to patient saving countless soldiers’ lives.
Honesty: I believe that team members should put a high value on effective communication within the team, this includes transparency about goals, team decisions, uncertainty, and mistakes. From my prior experience with working on a team I can say that honesty is critical to continued improvement and progression of the team. Maintaining mutual trust is necessary for a functioning team.
Interprofessional collaboration is crucial for health care practitioners because it promotes teamwork which increases patient safety. This paper will analyze a scenario with interprofessional competencies using the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative model (CIHC, 2010). Impacts and strategies of these competencies on the scenario will then be discussed. The two interprofessional competencies that are relevant to the scenario is team functioning and interprofessional communication. Team functioning and interprofessional communication are fundamental competencies for interprofessional collaboration because they promote effective teamwork, communication, and patient safety.
Using examples involving human service workers, discuss how interprofessional practice is defined. Discuss the barriers to interprofessional practice and how these might be addressed.
Interprofessional collaboration, interprofessional education, and integrated service delivery models are becoming more frequently utilized by social systems. Collaboration amongst professionals is touted as a vital method for cultivating positive outcomes, client safety, and service delivery cohesion while addressing human and economic resource deficits (Baldwin, 1996; Reeves & Freeth, 2002; Wee, Hillier, Coles, Mountford, Sheldon, & Turner, 2001). While not explicitly recognized, group work and group processes are the underpinning of interprofessional collaboration. Interprofessional collaboration can be structured as an educational, therapy, psychoeducational, task, support, self-help, community organizing, or empowerment/liberation group (Furman, Bender, & Rowan, 2014) depending on its purpose.
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.
Blood donations were being made on a regular basis come the 1900’s, yet the donator had to be present to give the blood directly to the recipient due to the accelerated coagulation of blood once it mixed with the open air. To rectify this problem hematologists started adding sodium citrate to the blood of the donator which would in turn delay the coagulation process by a few days. This allowed for the first storing of blood and introduced the term “Blood Bank”. Dr. Bernard Fantus, the director of the Cook County Hospital in northern Chicago, IL spearheaded this discovery. He thought by lowering the temperature of blood that it would lower its metabolism and thereby prolong its vitality. Unknowingly, Dr. Fantus created the first Blood Bank within the United States which would in turn change the course of medicine and human mortality forever. With this new leap forward in modern medicine, blood donations in the United Sates were at an all time high during the 20th Century due to WWI and WWII. Blood transfusions saved the life of countless individuals participating in the war efforts. The Red cross reported that they alone were “distributing 40 percent of the Countries blood supply”. Alongside aiding with the war efforts, blood transfusions also carried an array of health benefits as
The only way hospitals can receive blood is through blood donations. About 34% of the population is eligible to give blood but, as I wrote earlier only 10% of those actually do donate. The possibility of someone patient being turned away from getting a transfusion has always motivated me to donate as often as I can. A basic blood donation takes about a pint of the donor’s blood however, the average red blood cell transfusion is about three pints of blood.
Though there were many innocent victims of the AIDS epidemic’s outreach to blood banks’ donated supply, this problem sparked new innovations and research that have worked to solve both the AIDS-infected blood problem, but also threats of other serious diseases and complications in blood transfusions
Interprofessional education and collaboration are essential to promoting health care utilization that results in safe, effective, quality and equitable care in an evolving health care arena in the United States. The purpose of this essay is to evaluate the evolution of interprofessional education (IPE) and collaboration, and characteristics of interprofessional collaboration (IPC). Additionally, an analysis of how IPC can impact patient safety and quality of care, along with implementation facilitators, barriers and sustainability will be discussed. Finally, opportunities for utilization of IPE and IPC in an organization with DNP-prepared APRNs will be explored.
The intention of this written essay is to demonstrate an understanding of my views on reflection and the issues surrounding reflective practice. It is based on nursing skills that I used during my practice placement, most importantly reflecting on the professional value of privacy and dignity.
This essay will critically discuss how interprofessional communication can impact on service user’s safety and the quality of care. As leaning disability student nurse’s interprofessional communication is important for our learning and our professional development. As we have experienced on placement working with different professionals and communicating with them to deliver quality care for service users.
Blood transfusions serve a key function in saving lives within hospitals. Health professionals use them to substitute blood loss during a surgery or following a serious injury to a patient. Blood transfusions also contribute to boosting the body’s health and preventing further bleeding by giving patients blood rich in nutrients and coagulation factors. A small needle inserted into the intravenous system of patients helps deliver healthy blood to them, and the process may take one to four hours depending on the amount of blood a patient needs. Three types of blood transfusions are common: red blood cell, platelets and
In view of the rising costs of blood, the hospital tried to have sensible discussions with Red Cross and their answer was quite simple and disappointing and that was, for the hospital to get other blood suppliers if it simply didn’t like their prices. Carolinas Healthcare System was not the first to get such a blatant answer and neither was it to be the last. The hospital understood that though the Red Cross had their headquarters in Charlotte, and a national blood testing lab, decisions were not made from within but from St Louis. Based on this, they would not be expecting any considerable action as St. Lois never showed any interest in solving Carolina’s