Not only chronic diseases management becomes important at the heath care work but also it causes a state of challenge in many countries. And because some of the chronic diseases have turned into complex cases, they need multi-disciplinary team care.
By practicing within a team, healthcare profession¬als will be able to balance the amount of duties, responsibility and the workload. The term Team Care Arrangement TCA was first introduced to support multidisciplinary care for patients with chronic diseases. Building this type of teams may face many challenges such as poor communication and limited exchange of information. My team is responsible for the overall patient care plan and each member including the patient himself has his own accurate duties which include taking the right decisions according to the situation.
Although the team link intervention was based on inter-professional care, bringing professionals to work together doesn’t always guarantee collaboration with its concepts sharing, partnership, interdependency and power. So, building multidisciplinary teams always needs its leader to provide his members with clear objectives, specific roles and responsibilities, a pre -designed mechanism for exchanging information and coordination. At the same time, the leader’s role is to support his member with authentic resources and tools such as guidelines, structured protocols or policies and standards for communication to help them achieving their goals.
To build my own team I have to follow the basic stages of team development. (1)Forming stage: I chose my team members and define the purpose, structure, and leadership.(2) Storming stage : I end the intra-group conflict. (3) Norming stage: I identify the relationships and cohesi...
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... effective collaborative work. There are many elements that may influence the relationship between the team members such as trust, respect, and diversity of opinions, mindfulness or openness to new ways of working, interrelatedness, social interaction and effective communication.
To have effective team, my leadership must be flexible, should have the willingness to innovate, being careful when choosing my team members and being careful when establishing the team. That of course will make my job easier and more professional. Using a mixture between the formal and informal communication skills is required. I must provide my team members with specified and clear roles and tasks and objectives. As a team leader; training and educating my team is my own responsibility. To make the job more achievable, I need to facilitate and organize the protocols and processes.
In this 21st century, there are more and more policies and guidelines that focused on long term conditions as these conditions are incurable but only can be controlled and progressed with long term management. In Northern Ireland, a policy framework “Living with Long Term Conditions” had been introduced and addressed about long term conditions (LTC) that needs high quality of care. This policy provides a better outcome with supporting good practice through 6 key development areas. The 6 key principles are essential in helping people with LTC to receive a better care, treatment and support. First area is partnership between the service user and the collaboration team whereby communication skill is highlighted to encourage service users to play an active role in managing their own conditions with individual care plan. Next, self-management is also another key principle to be developed so that those people with LTC managed their condition effectively which may progress over time. Through training and education on acquired skills is a good start to promote self-management strategy as they able to deal with flare-ups, condition and lifestyle. Thus, information is vital in helping them understand their own condition and knowing what is the best for them in order to increase their quality of life. A medicines management service help in bringing the best outcome for LTC patients while carer also need to maintain their own health to continue their caring role and act as a safeguarding through the provision of the support. Last principle is improving care and services at the right time and right way to prevent readmission and prolong hospital stay (DHSSPS, 2012).
In addition to having a specific objective assign and a clear role every team member should have the proper education that allows her to complete the assign task(s). Also an open and constant communication within team members is important, since the feedback from each other can help to the growth of knowledge of each of the team members as an individual, as well as it helps to resolve any issues or errors found within the interdisciplinary care model. Another important characteristic of a team member is the ability to be able to provide support to other team members even if this means taking on extra workload for a short-term period, while the other team member stabilizes herself and becomes available to take over the assignments left
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.
The demands on health care providers to provide the best quality care for patients is increasing. With added responsibilities and demands on our health care workers, it is hard not to become overwhelmed and forget the reason and purpose of our profession. However, there is a way where all professionals can meet and come together for a common cause, which is the patient. A new approach to patient care is coming of age. This approach allows all health care professionals to collaborate and explore the roles of other professions in the hope of creating a successful health care team.
It is important that all team members are aware of their role within the group and that they are performed correctly to meet their goal. For example, at a nursing home a nurse and a CNA work closely together. As the CNA is preforming ADLs he/she is able to assess the patient for any problems that the resident may be having. The nurse is then made aware of any problems and may ask the CNA to assist in a situation such as turning the resident in order to administer a shot. By working together the medical staff are able to reach set health goals and help the patient more efficiently.
Intro- Collaboration with the interdisciplinary team plays a big part in the care of a patient.
Chronic illness issues can include managing their illness, the cost of taking care of the illness, etc. Many people who suffer from a chronic illness suffer a lot trying to manage their illness on a daily basis. According to a website called NCOA.org, “About 80% of older adults have one chronic disease. 68.4% of Medicare beneficiaries have two or more chronic diseases and 36.4% have four or more. Chronic diseases can affect a person’s ability to perform important activities, restricting their engagement in life and their enjoyment of family and friends”
The advantage of a multidisciplinary team approach is that all professionals work together by collecting the facts and by bringing information together, to obtain as complete a view as possible of the problems of each individual patient. In doing this they are able to make sure that the proper range of treatments are used in a properly planned way (Onyett 2003).
The demand of a constantly developing health service has required each professional to become highly specialised within their own field. Despite the focus for all professionals being on the delivery high quality care (Darzi, 2008); no one profession is able to deliver a complete, tailored package. This illustrates the importance of using inter-professional collaboration in delivering health care. Patient centric care is further highlighted in policies, emphasising the concept that treating the illness alone whilst ignoring sociological and psychological requirements on an individual is no longer acceptable. Kenny (2002) states that at the core of healthcare is an agreement amongst all the health professionals enabling them to evolve as the patient health requirements become more challenging but there are hurdles for these coalitions to be effective: for example the variation in culture of health divisions and hierarchy of roles. Here Hall (2005) illustrates this point by stating that physicians ignore the mundane problems of patients, and if they feel undervalued they do not fully participate with a multidisciplinary team.
When they have been used correctly, they’ve been shown to improve efficiency and profitability in organizations. “Developing team skills is important because of the tremendous explosion in the use of teams in work organizations over the last decade (Developing Management Skills).” An examination of these models will show the similarities and differences they have in the context of team building. Four Stages Model “The Forming – Norming – Storming – Performing model of team development was first proposed by Bruce Tuckman in 1965. This model has become the basis for subsequent models of team dynamics and frequently used management theory to describe the behavior of existing teams (Wikipedia).”
University of Washington. (2013). Four (Five) Stages of Team Development – Bruce Tuckman. Retrieved April 2014, from University of Washington: depts.washington.edu/oei/resources
Interdisciplinary team work is a complex process which involves various disciplines within the health care setting which work together to share expertise, knowledge and skills to impact patient care. However interdisciplinary team work is increasing as a result of an aging population and higher number of patients with more complex needs associated with chronic diseases; along with increasing complexity of skills and increasing specialization within health professions (Susan A. Nancarrow, 2013).
The provision of patient/family-centered care, which assure safety and quality in the service, would have a team work approach as a foundation and underpinning. In a healing process or in the preservation of health intervene several factors, some of them are closely related with the environment. Healthcare providers constitute an important part of that environment, and definitely, communication with patients, families, and among themselves, have a significant impact on it. The environment would influence the patient’s perception of care, and the staff’s level of
There are many ways to categorize illness and disease; one of the most common is chronic illness. Many chronic illnesses have been related to altered health maintenance hypertension and cardiovascular diseases are associated with diet and stress, deficient in exercise, tobacco use, and obesity (Craven 2009). Some researchers define the chronic illness as diseases which have long duration and generally slow development (WHO 2013); it usually takes 6 month or longer than 6 month, and often for the person's life. It has a sluggish onset and eras of reduction for vanishing the symptoms and exacerbation for reappear the symptoms. Some of chronic illness can be directly life-threatening. Others remain over time and need intensive management, such as diabetes, so chronic illness affects physical, emotional, logical, occupational, social, or spiritual functioning. Chronic diseases, such as heart disease, stroke, cancer, chronic respiratory diseases and diabetes, all of these diseases are the cause of mortality in the world, representing 63% of all deaths. So a chronic illness can be stressful and may change the way a person l...
Another crucial thing that I learned from the EPP is the essential importance of teamwork in leadership and the various ways through which effective teamwork can be promoted. A team is simply a group of people who work together, cooperate with, and depend on each other towards the attainment of common goals and objectives. As a leader, it is important to possess adequate teamwork skills and knowledge. Teamwork is an integral component of the success of any given organization and so it is critical for leaders to possess the requisite knowhow to facilitate proper and effective teamwork within their spheres