Improving Collaboration and Teamwork in Perioperative Care
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1Perioperative care: Factors influencing the care and possible strategies for theenhancement of perioperative careWord count: 1893 excluding refernces
21.0.IntroductionThe use of surgical procedures for the mitigation of diseases has tremendous but anunrecognized impact on health sciences. Among 33 million patients who wereundergoing for surgery in the United States, about 1 million patients reported adverseevents leading to an estimated cost of $25 billion annually (Christopher, 2009).However, the complications in terms of adverse events are expected to be increasewith age of the population and across the world. The complications associated withcardiovascular system are one of the most common perioperative adverse events inpatients undergoing noncardiac surgery. Certain instances can also lead to mortality(Fecho et al., 2008). Therefore it is essential for clinicians to be acquainted withcurrent heart hazard assessment and preventive strategies for patients undergoingnoncardiac surgery. In addition, the risk of complications shall be assessed priorsurgery. Similarly, the pulmonary complications shall be evaluated proactively toestimate the probability of occurrence of complications during or after the surgicalprocedures. Therefore it is desired to know the risk associated with perioperativecomplications for the patients who are undergoing for surgical procedures. Acollaborative work among the health workforce is desired to be in place in thehealthcare system to minimize the risk and occurrence of complications. Among thehealth workforce, the nursing professionals are close in monitoring the patient healthstatus. Therefore, they shall communicate on time-to-time basis to the remaining andresponsible persons of facility. In view of the teamwork, the present paper describesthe challenges and strategies of team work for the preoperative management ofpatients with surgical procedures.
32.0.Factors influencing the safetyHealth care services are provided to patients in an environment with complexinteractions among numerous components, for example, the infection procedure itself,clinicians, innovation, arrangements, techniques, and assets. At the point when theseperplexing elements associate, destructive and unforeseen results (e.g., mistakes) canhappen. Human blunder has been characterized as a failure of a scheduled activity ora succession of mental or physical actions to be completed as intended, or the use of awrong plan to achieve an outcome (Hughes, 2008). More patient and health workforcerelated factors exist in perioperative cases. This could be either lack of adequate co-operation among the staff (Davenport et al., 2005). Diverse teams are involving in theperioperative management including respiratory team who pay attention towards thevital parameters such as breathing rate. Irrespective of the work level the team shouldextend the services i.e., no discrimination should exist among the staff. The healthcareprofessionals from diverse groups are responsible for perioperative managementincluding attending physicians, a nurse practitioner, a case manager, a dietitian, apharmacist, a social worker, registered respiratory therapists, and a nursing staff (Tsaiet al., 2013).3.0.Apply the quality and safety framework to perioperative practiceThe safety framework for health care offers a safe and high quality care to theperiopertaive patients. The framework comprises of three major principles (i) care isconsumer centred, (ii) driven by information, and (iii) organized for safety (Safety andhigh quality, 2010). The framework provides a basis for strategic and operationalsafety and quality plans. It also designs the goals for health service improvement beused as a guide for looking into speculations and examination in wellbeing andquality advance talk with buyers, clinicians, administrators, analysts and policy
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