Inter-Professional Teamwork in Aged Care: iCARE Components

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Inter- professional team work or collaborative care is one of the crucial aspect in
healthcare that helps in the enhancement of the health improvement, safety and security
(Körner et al., 2016). As per Körner et al. (2016) inclusion of inter- professional teamwork
helps in the identification of the patient’s concern and hence, helps in the reduction of the
patient illness. This process provides an opportunity to the healthcare professionals to work
with the families and patients and hence experience of working beyond their profession helps
them to develop different perspective of healthcare (Harris et al., 2016). In this paper,
discussion of one such inter- professional teamwork related to aged care center would be
discussed and in context, the type of inter- professional team required in the care center
would be discussed. Finally, through the application of iCARE components, the significance
of inter- professional team in the healthcare facility would be discussed.
The type of inter- professional team that would be required for the aged care process
would be physicians, occupational therapists, dieticians and nutritionists, physiotherapists,
and community care or registered nursing professional (Körner et al., 2016). These members
should be present in the aged care center so that all the elderly patients and their multiple
disease conditions could be treated or addressed. Further as per Thomson et al. (2015), with
the application of multidisciplinary or inter- professional teams in the aged care facility, a
connection between the family members and the care professional would be developed. In
addition to this, Nester (2016) mentioned that inter- professional teamwork helps the
healthcare professionals to provide the patient with quality care, enhanced security for their
steady wellbeing. Hence, this should be the interprofessional team present in the aged care
center.
While working with elderly patients in aged care centers, implementation of
interprofessional team helps to provide holistic care to the patients (Harris et al., 2016). This
nursing action team works in collaboration by showing compassion towards the patient,

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protecting their rights by implanting patient advocacy, enhancing their resilience or capacity
to recover faster and implementing evidence based practice for the therapeutic interventions
(Körner et al., 2016). As per Nester (2016), implementation of these components of iCARE
helps in developing progressive culture in the organisation and improving the patient
outcome.
As per Körner et al. (2016), compassion is one of the most crucial element required
for high quality healthcare. Multiple researches has been conducted for understanding the
importance of this compassionate nursing care and its effectiveness in patient’s wellbeing. As
per Allen‐Duck, Robinson and Stewart (2016), with compassion, carers are able to develop a
positive relationship with their patients which helps in the application of interventions.
Application of compassion in care process is a fundamental approach as it helps them to
overcome any challenges in patient care. Hence, application of this component would make
the inter-professional team effective and would help to accelerate the patient outcome
(Nester, 2016)
Patient advocacy is also an important aspect which helps nursing professionals to
understand the client’s rights and provides them with the opportunity to plead for the benefit
of the patient (Davoodvand, Abbaszadeh & Ahmadi, 2016). While performing their nursing
actions, raising and pleading for the betterment of the patient by providing them their patient
rights would be an effective process. Application of the patient advocacy related values in the
clinical scenario would help to raise voice for the patients that are not being able to receive
their rights in healthcare (Nester, 2016).
Resilience is termed as the ability to return back to the normal state. As per Manfield
and Newey (2018) nursing is the most crucial and responsible profession as they help an
individual to regain his/her wellbeing and lead a normal lifestyle. Hence, it is important for