Interprofessional Education Exposure Reflection Tabitha Barcus School of Nursing, Indiana University Fort Wayne NURS B253: Professionalism in Collaborative Practice Professor Jaime Vinson March 11, 2023 Interprofessional Education Exposure Reflection The Interprofessional Education Exposure (IPE) was an event that I attended. This event is supposed to prepare me for being a professional nurse. Also, how to interact with my patients and coworkers. Before the Zoom call, I did a few assignments to prepare myself for the event. The assignment is what we talked about during the Zoom call. The call was facilitated by two different proctors. The first person gave a brief overview of how the call was going to go. Then we got put into a “breakout …show more content…
Advantages: When you work as an interprofessional team, then the overall patient care is best. This is an advantage for the patients and coworkers. This professionalism makes it easier to work with other people. If everyone has the same goal, then we know what we are working towards. What makes interpersonal collaboration in nursing so essential to the patient experience? For one, patients often need to receive care from multiple providers or specialists to have the most holistic, comprehensive treatment. For example, a patient who is treated for breast cancer may benefit from the interventions of an oncologist, a dermatologist, and a reconstructive surgeon” (Interprofessional collaboration in nursing: Examples and benefits 2023). This shows that interprofessional collaboration is essential in patient care. This will help the patient have a better outcome and get healthy faster. Disadvantages The biggest disadvantages of interprofessional are communication and power dynamics. Having great communication is the goal, but sometimes this falls short. Communication can be very hard and it is something that people have to work on every day. You do not become a strong communicator
Interprofessional teams in health care are considered to be one of the best approaches to improve patient outcomes. Interprofessional teams provide the means to integrate patient care with input from many different professional disciplines (Rose, 2011). Nurses are an important part of the interprofessional team, since they are often the team member that is closest to the patient (Miers & Pollard, 2009). I recently participated in a team that developed a work flow for daily readmission rounds. The team was interprofessional, the hospitalist, who was an APRN led the team. There was the case manager and the primary nurse who were both RN’s. The team also consisted of a resident, pharmacist, nutritionist, physical therapist, and social worker.
...mental changes of transforming health care organizations to support interprofessional collaboration and interprofessional education will create a highly functional nursing workforce that is capable of working with other health care professionals to ensure successful health outcomes (Chan et al., 2010). Thus, Administrators and policymakers may use the research of this interprofessional framework to address the crucial need to implement the interprofessional collaboration recommendations to improve the knowledge and skills of interprofessional collaborative teams to coordinate patient-center care. Consequently, there must be collaborative trust and support among all stakeholders in order for interprofessional collaborative practice to advance and have an optimal impact on the quality of patient centered care, healthcare professionals and health care organizations.
What makes communication an important aspect of interprofessional collaboration? Cottrell, Mellor, and Moran (2013), mention how part of their findings with students who have participated in an interprofessional education program was how their interactions and communicating with each other became valued. With knowing each other’s skills and profession, they were able to work well as a team to obtain the best care for the patient. By sharing expertise and perspectives, we provide a common goal which is, improving the patient’s outcome. Moving forward, there is plenty of research on the importance of using interprofessional collaboration.
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The NP core competencies are independent practice, ethics, health delivery system, policy, technology and information, practice inquiry, quality, leadership, and scientific foundation are accomplished by mentored patient experiences. However, stress on independent and interprofessional practice is essential (Thomas, Crabtree, Delaney, Dumas, Kleinpell, Logsdon, Marfell, & Nativio, 2012). Therefore, the NP and other providers must work in a collective fashion that includes mutual respect among all individual healthcare team members.
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
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The World Health Organization (2010) defines interprofessional collaboration in health care as occurring “when multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds provide comprehensive services by working with patients, their families, carers and communities to deliver the highest quality of care across settings” (p. 7) and IPE as occurring “when two or more professions learn about, from and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes” (p. 7). Interprofessional collaboration is contingent on IPE; education promotes collaborative patient-centered care by strengthening communication skills and teamwork. This paper discusses the importance of interprofessional collaboration in healthcare by examining
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
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
Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (IPCP). Razik Poliwala University of Phoenix Professional Contemporary Nursing Role and Practice Michelle Dorin 03/05/2024. Competence of Interprofessional Collaboration Based on the video I watched and articles that I have come across, they have explained in detail four core proficiencies of interprofessional education collaboration. These competencies encompass ethics for interprofessional practice, interprofessional communication, roles, teamwork and, in my eyes, nursing is very collaborative. For instance, interprofessional collaboration is aimed at making the most of the competence of the various professions to ensure quality of work.
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,
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A big, strong, and bulky animal growls at the beginning of a race, getting ready to defeat the small, and clever animal next to him. Numerous people would assume that the powerful animal would win any contest, however, generally that is not the case. Usually, the clever one that seems puny outwits them all. In the fable, “Two Ways to Count to Ten” by Frances Carpenter demonstrates how the clever one always wins because even though he is weak and not as big, he can think of ways to win by thinking out of the box. The character that is underestimated wins the contest.
Healthcare professionals work to serve the community and provide good quality care. A high standard of patient-centred care is achieved through the amalgamation of the central values of an Integrated Health Professional (IHP) (Olckers, Gibbs, Duncan 2007:2). Through a family member’s experience with a healthcare professional I have personally learnt the importance of becoming an IHP which will be discussed further.