This week we focused on interprofessional collaboration. It characterizes the coordination of health care providers from different departments across the hospital to work collaboratively in the delivery of health care. In the interprofessional collaboration approach, different clinicians from different departments, skills, specialties, and disciplines team up to provide comprehensive and quality health care to patients, their families, and society (Karam et al., 2018). Today, the health care system is complicated and patient healthcare needs are extremely diverse. This practicum experience demonstrated to me the need of involving an interprofessional team to address complicated and diverse patient needs. Interprofessional collaboration is instrumental in ensuring safe, efficient, and quality health care provision. Interprofessional collaboration is also proved valuable in addressing the rampant challenge of medication errors (Karam et al., 2018). Medication errors usually occur due to poor communication or breakdown of communication among providers. However, interprofessional collaboration addresses such flaws in communication leading to reduced medical mistakes and improved safety of patients.
The current project seeks to manage the mental health and psychological conditions of elderly patients or seniors living in a managed long-term care setting. The specific interventions include the adoption of physical exercise and mindfulness mediation. If these interventions are approached from diverse perspectives by diverse clinicians, there is a high likelihood of positive and outstanding health outcomes among the targeted population (Labrague et al., 2022). The positive outcomes are achieved through the integration of diverse knowledge, resources, talents, and skills to address the mental health issues in seniors. Addressing mental health conditions needs the input of various care providers from various specialties. Therefore, I intend to partner with a diverse team of health care providers in this project such as social workers, fitness coaches, counselors, dieticians, physicians, and nurse educators to ensure better outcomes for the target population.
References
Karam, M., Brault, I., Van Durme, T., & Macq, J. (2018). Comparing interprofessional and inter-organizational collaboration in healthcare: a systematic review of the qualitative research. International journal of nursing studies, 79, 70-83. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijnurstu.2017.11.002
Labrague, L. J., Al Sabei, S., Al Rawajfah, O., AbuAlRub, R., & Burney, I. (2022). Interprofessional collaboration as a mediator in the relationship between nurse work environment, patient safety outcomes, and job satisfaction among nurses. Journal of Nursing Management, 30(1), 268-278. https://doi.org/10.1111/jonm.13491
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