Factors Affecting Inter-Professional Teamwork in Emergency Care of Poly-Trauma Patients

TRAUMA AND EMERGENCY
NURSING - Discuss the factors
affecting inter-professional
teamwork in emergency care of
poly-trauma patients at the
emergency department

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Discussion on components affecting inter-professional teamwork in emergency care of poly-
trauma patients and significance for quality service....................................................................3
Significance for quality service to patients suffering from poly-trauma-:...................................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Poly-trauma termed out as condition in which an individual has been subjected to
multiple traumatic injuries in head that is addition to serious burn. It is traumatic reaction that
may lead to dysfunction or failure of remote organs and vital system (Dawson, Rossiter and Fry,
2019). Also, interpersonal profession plays significant role to bring improvement in quality of
patient management within critical conditions such as trauma. To cope up with traumatic
patients, there is need of effective participation of varied professionals and specialist.
The present study is based on to evaluate learners analytical skills to explore issues relate
with inter-professional teamwork in emergency care of poly-trauma patients at emergency
departments. Additionally, the purpose of this report is to explore inter-professional teamwork
and improvement strategies within trauma emergency department.
However, report will lay emphasise on discussion of factors that affects inter-professional
teamwork in emergency care of poly-trauma patients at emergency department. Also,
significance towards the collaboration for quality service will be defined.
MAIN BODY
Discussion on components affecting inter-professional teamwork in emergency care of poly-
trauma patients and significance for quality service.
Poly-trauma is a condition that defined as leading cause of death. This is defined as the
medical term that stated as injuries that termed out as range from minor isolated world to
complex injuries that is inclusive of multiple organ system (Ferguson, 2019). Teamwork can be
termed out as crucial process that provides safe and effective hospital care to patients. Therefore,
high teamwork experience reflect higher patients satisfaction, attractive nurse retention and
lowers hospital cost. In addition to this, team work needs effective communication and
collaborative care coordination. In today's era, healthcare industry needs to built around
multidisciplinary approach to patient care. Also, teamwork plays vital role to facilitating
effective communication and to promote positive patients outcome. Henceforth, health care
organisation must supports the inter-professional team approach as a key components in the
provision of high quality critical care to patients.
It is important for staff and social workers to work in effective way so that service quality
standards are maintained and high quality facilities is provided at time of emergency care. thus, it
is required to work in collaboration so that practices are followed effectively. Besides that,

service value is also maintained and it results in enhancing efficiency of staff. The emergency
unit needs to communicate with other department in order to manage critical situation.
Moreover, by working in team leads to streamline procedure of delivering care and following
specific protocol. alongside, needs of patient is identified along with level of care. In addition,
specialised needs is determined by working in collaboration (Gillespie, Pekar and Fisher, 2017 ).
With help of it, early intervention program is delivered with support of other teams. Besides that,
collaboration is done in various ways which leads to proper communication and share of data
and info between teams. However, the interventions that occurs during delivering of care
services is eliminated. Thus, a new relationship is formed that enable in managing large number
of patients (McBeth Durbin-Johnson and Siegel, 2017). The importance of working in
collaboration is it improve skills and knowledge of staff by providing them training and
delivering services to patients. This is in line with "promoting high-quality, patient-centred care
and accountability. They demonstrated high levels of staff satisfaction with teamwork training
interventions and positive staff attitudes towards the importance of teamwork and
communication. There is evidence that multidisciplinary teams are successful in reducing access
block, and physiotherapists play a role in this.
In present health care system, delivery processes inclusive of numerous interfaces and
patients hand-offs among the multiple healthcare practitioners with varied levels of educational
and occupational training. In order to rendering the emergency care to treat patients with disease
as Poly-trauma, the one of factors that is affecting services is lack of communication that creates
situation where the medical errors occurred ( Porter, Cant and Cooper, 2018). These are those
errors that have the potential to harm server injury and this leads to unexpected patients death.
Thus, the medical errors caused by failure to communicate can be defined as pervasive problem
within health care organisation. To deal with patients who are suffering from poly-trauma, there
is need to undertake collaboration within health care and healthcare professional assuming
complementary roles that are working together to share the responsibilities of problem solving.
This is crucial to collaboration among nurses, medical professionals and other health care
professionals that enhances the team members awareness, skills and type of knowledge that leads
to continue improvement in decision-making. This can be stated that effective team are
characterized by trust, collaboration and respect.