The Importance Of Interprofessional Communication

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Contemporary patient-centered care is requiring all health care providers from different professions working collaboratively within an interprofessional team to improve better patient outcomes. When the members of multiple disciplines communicate well with each other based on mutual respect and value each other’s opinions, the whole team understands better, functioning better, and less chances to end up with negative patient health care. Research findings indicate interprofessional team approach improve quality of the patient-centred care (Buscemi, Steglitz, & Spring, 2012). This paper will review a clinical case happened in a complex care unit, analysis the contributing factors related to interprofessional competency with the care team, and …show more content…

According to the National Competency Framework, there are six competency domains integrated to achieve a collaborative approach to health care practice including interprofessional communication, patient- centred care, role clarification, team functioning, collaborative leadership, and interprofessional conflict resolution. Interprofessional communication is defined as effective communication with each other within the health care team from different professions in a collaborative, responsive and responsible manner (Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative, 2010). Nursing manager, RN, skin care specialist, physiotherapist, nursing student, and all the professionals working within the team should communicate each other with respect at a timely manor for better quality of patient care based on sharing common goals and values. In this clinical case, there was a communication breakdown resulted in poor team functioning and lack of patient- centred …show more content…

Nurse who is working on the unit have an ultimate role as integrative organizer to make sure the communication flow smoothly and to overcome some obstacles in the communication process (Gilardi, Guglielmetti, & Pravettoni, 2013). The initial relationship which was established between nursing and other medical professionals from the time of Florence Nightingale is not foundationally flattened equal and collaborative. This authentic hierarchy structure remains in the modern western nursing largely spread and accepted by nurses self and other professionals today (MacMillan, 2012). The underlying tension between nursing staff and other professionals within the health care team was founded and perceived by all the members. Nursing work is underrespected and undervalued not only by the public also by the interprofessional team. The issue of the power and status conflict escalations within the health care structure system. Nurses are especially affected by the power and control status during all dynamics throughout the whole process of patient care (Hart,

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