Interprofessional Collaborative Practice for Complex Care

This article discusses the benefits of interprofessional collaborative practice for providing effective care to patients with complex health needs. It explores the different healthcare professionals that can be incorporated in the care of a patient and how they can work together to provide person-centred care. The article also highlights the benefits for nursing students in working with interprofessional teams.

Inquiry for Complex Care
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Interprofessional Collaborative Practice:
Mr Hibble’s health needs are complex and effective care can be provided to him by
incorporating healthcare professionals from different discipline. Healthcare professionals in
different disciplines can communicate effectively to address the complex issues of Hibble.
Experience of different healthcare professionals can be shared among themselves and
common goal can be set for Hibble. Accident lead to multiple physical, physiological and
psychological manifestations in Hibble. Hence, there should be incorporation of professionals
from different disciplines like healthcare, social, psychological, nutritional and physical
health (Bell, 2014). General physician and nurse should assess health of Hibble and provide
required intervention. John experiencing multiple health effects at younger age of 19 years.
This is the most productive age for carrier development. Hence, there might be possibility
that psychological depression can happen in him. Pain related to fracture can also produce
depression and anxiety in him (Tanasale, 2013). Hence, counselling need to be provided to
him by social workers and psychologist. Physiotherapist and occupational therapist need to
be incorporated in his care to relive his pain and suffering. For the surgery, orthopaedic
surgeon need to be incorporated in his care. Due to accident and multiple fractures, his vital
signs like cardiovascular and respiratory parameters altered. Altered vital signs can be
restored to normal levels by incorporating services of cardiologist and pulmonologist in his
care. Assessment of health of Hibble can be performed by ordering lab tests and radiography.
Hence, in his care diagnostic professional, pathologist and radiography expert need to be
incorporated. These professionals can be helpful in the accurate assessment of Hibble’s
condition which can be useful in planning necessary intervention to Hibble. His family
members need to be incorporated in his care. Hence optimum health service can be provided
to Hiblle by incorporating multiple stakeholders (Kirschling and Bednash, 2012; Swihart,
2016).
Optimization of care:
Interprofessional approach can be helpful in building team character which can be helpful in
providing optimum care to Hibble. He is experiencing multiple health effects, hence
treatment of one condition can exaggerate another health issue. Hence, involvement of
different healthcare professionals can prevent exaggeration of their respective health issues. It
can be helpful in providing optimum care to the patient by providing care to all the health
issues instead of focusing on specific health issue. This interaction among different
healthcare professionals can provide person centred care (Sommerfeldt, 2013). Medical errors
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can be effectively reduced in interprofessional care because error occurred due to one
professional can be effectively corrected by another healthcare professional (Paterson et al.,
2015). Patients like Hibble, with multiple health issues require advocacy from individual,
institution, or government. These interdisciplinary healthcare professionals can bring this
advocacy for these patients to provide optimum care. Interprofessional team can provide
updated interventions to the Hibble. It can be helpful in the fast recovery with minimum pain
and without much financial burden on him and his family members. Interprofessional team
can consider evidence for providing care to Hibble. Collaborative work by the
interprofessional team can consider cultural aspects of care. Hence, it is feasible for these
healthcare professionals to communicate effectively with Hibble and his family members.
Barriers for the provision healthcare services to Hibble can be effectively reduced by
incorporating interdisciplinary healthcare professionals (Dossey et al., 2015).
Benefits to the student :
Registered nurse gets benefited in forms like professional development and continuing
education resources and clinical decision support.
Professional development can be achieved by providing care to the patient, if nurse possesses
expertise, skill and knowledge of nursing intervention. Nurse need to follow ethical
guidelines, hospital policies; also nurse need to understand needs and requirement of patient
to achieve professional improvement in the nursing practice. Student get knowledge of all the
policies and hospital guidelines from the senior members of the interprofessional team
(Woolforde, 2012). Experience of all the senior professionals from different departments can
be helpful for the nurse student to understand the needs and requirements of the patient.
Student nurse can discuss with diverse professionals to understand actual problem of different
health issues. Hence, student nurse can get experience in diverse medical conditions. It can be
helpful in improving skill development in these nurse students (Martin et al., 2017;
Langendyk et al., 2015). It can be helpful in improving confidence of these student nurses to
provide independent care to the patients. Student nurse can get experience of working in the
complex medical issues. In nursing profession, both classroom teaching and live patient
experience is required for providing optimum care to the patient. By working with all the
interprofessional team, student nurse can get experience in live patients which can be helpful
for them to implement in the actual nursing practice. Recent developments in the nursing
profession can be learned by these nurse students for providing advanced care to these
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patients. By working with interprofessional team, student nurse can get experience of
providing person-centred care, culture and community-based care to the patients (Furr et al.,
2015).
Experience of professionals of interdisciplinary team can be helpful for student nurse to
make clinical decision making by considering medical, social and cultural aspects. By
communication with healthcare professionals of different teams, nurse students can acquire
skills in clinical decision making (Sommerfeldt, ,2013; Paterson, 2015). By working in
collaboration with clinical laboratory department, they can learn diagnostic aspects which are
the most important aspects in clinical decision making and providing appropriate care to the
patients. Taking patient history and observation of patients can be improved and discussion
with different healthcare professionals can be helpful for student nurse to take appropriate
clinical decision about the patient (Hinderer and Joyner, 2014; Ten Cate et al., 2016). There
can be improved understanding of the student nurse about the importance of different
interventions like medical, social, psychological, nutritional and physical for improvement in
clinical outcome of the patient. Student nurse can visit different clinical sites with different
professionals which can be helpful for them to understand different interprofessional
questions and patient’s response to different clinical conditions. Student nurse can understand
different stages of disease condition. Student nurse can improve their roles and approaches
for different clinical conditions. There can be improvement in these students in the
assessment, planning, provision and reviewing of clinical care (West et al., 2015;
Woolforde,2012).
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