Analyzing Roles, Ethics, and Teamwork in Health Care Professionals

This report delves into the roles and responsibilities of health care professionals, focusing on the Lea Vale Foundation as a case study for inter-professional and multidisciplinary working. It explores the concepts of values, ethics, and codes of conduct, highlighting their impact on clinical decisions and patient care. The report examines the advantages of inter-professional teamwork, including improved health outcomes, enhanced client satisfaction, and efficient resource utilization. It also discusses the skills and attributes essential for an integrated health center and effective teamwork, concluding with insights into the benefits of such collaborative approaches for service users and the overall functioning of healthcare organizations. The report references various books and journals to support its findings.

THE HEALTH CARE
PROFESSIONAL

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Roles and responsibilities of individuals working in Lea Vale foundation ..............................1
Concept of values, ethics or codes of conduct for health care professional................................2
Information regarding the inter-professional and multidisciplinary working and its advantages
.....................................................................................................................................................3
Impacts of inter-professional/ multidisciplinary working and in managing works for better
services........................................................................................................................................4
Skills and attributes of integrated health centre and ability of effective team............................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Health care professionals is an individual who facilitates preventive, promotional,
rehabilitative health care services in most appropriate systematic way to general public or
communities. Health care professional are also known as health care practitioner or health care
provider. Health care provider may operates the services in several kinds of branches including
medicine, surgery, dentistry, pharmacy, psychology, nursing, allied health professions. under this
study The Lea Vale foundation established and working as inter professional/ multidisciplinary
health centre. The Lea Vale foundation operating in order to provide the public health facilities
and to deliver integrated health care services to the people of Lea Vale foundations
(Bhattacharyya, 2014).
MAIN BODY
Roles and responsibilities of individuals working in Lea Vale foundation
As in present times the trust, Lea Vale foundation is an integrated health centre and
providing inefficient and ineffective services regarding health of general public, therefore in
order to rectifying this problem the senior managers of the foundation wants to analyse the
workings of individuals by knowing their roles and responsibilities in order to form an integrated
team working environment within the foundation and make foundation acts as multidisciplinary
health centre. Under the workings of foundations like Lea Vale, all the team members of this
multidisciplinary health care team contributes their efforts in order to manage the workings or
services provided by their foundation. The support of health care managers, team members
organise themselves in an organisational structure to maximise the therapeutic success of Lea
Vale foundation.
However the multidisciplinary health care team integrates into various health care
structures such as university medical centre, involves external quality assurance, quality
management system, centre for rare diseases etc. although in multidisciplinary health care centre
the individuals workings in it together in form of integrated team has their own roles and
responsibilities according to their job profiles. such as, he special or rare disease doctor works
and increase the specialization within the profession and a corresponding fragmentation of
disciplinary knowledge resulting in no one health care expert being able to meet the complexities
in treatment of their patients (Berwick, 2016). Besides this, the managers are engaged with
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decision makings or activity of pursuing of continuity of care within the move towards
continuous quality improvement. Moreover there are certain legislation and policies formed by
the managers for the systematic workings of integrated team of multidisciplinary health care
centre. Overall, the concept of multidisciplinary team working comprises with the aim, to be
enriching and complementary can bring great benefits and potentially positive results to
integrated teams, clients as well as organisation.
Concept of values, ethics or codes of conduct for health care professional
The personal and professional values of health care practitioner affects the clinical
decisions. Values for the individuals or health care practitioner can helps in improvement of
patient health related decisions taken by the individual practitioners and inter professional teams.
Some values of health care practitioners are capability, professionalism, intellectual stimulation,
critical thinking, equality etc. the most prominent value are altruism, equality and capability.
Besides the values, the codes and codes of ethics also plays inevitable role in functioning
of the health care. Code of ethics examines the roles and responsibilities within the profession.
The profession involves the ethical principles to aid in quality of health in practising. Health care
practitioner duties and responsibilities as the part of profession, a practitioner is guided by the
various code of ethics and standards of practising and are regarding with the profession,
certification, employer relationship. The codes may be contradictory and complimentary, acts as
the guidance for the framework of practising the health care services.
Values and ethics and codes of conduct are use to support the health care practitioner to
deliver good quality and effective services within the criteria of ethical framework and these
codes are also essential in providing the guidance to the individual practitioners in performing
the challenging tasks of providing appropriate health care services and completing professional
roles and ensures a proper framework to ensures the framework to guide professional judgement.
For example, National health organisation guidelines health and care regarding the in Lea Vale
health care centre the doctors for rare disease are working and providing services to patients of
rare disease like cancer, then the doctor provide the safety measures and guidance regarding the
treatment of disease and schedule of food and medicine giving to the patient. So this role and
responsibilities of doctors must be according to the criteria of code of ethics as well as code of
conducts and also deserves the values of services. So this is how the codes of ethics and codes of
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conducts are related to the inter professional and multidisciplinary working(Blumenthal and
Hsiao, 2015)
Information regarding the inter-professional and multidisciplinary working and its advantages
When some professionals within the health care foundation works together to perform
comprehensive care facilities to needy patients as much as possible. This is formed by several
professional working together in team under one organisation or by the professional from the
range of organisation. The ideals multidisciplinary team works for providing good quality of
services to the needy people, must pertain, allied health professional, health educators,
community health nurses, practice nurses in order to form a proper team and to provide the best
services. Multidisciplinary team enjoys several benefits to both patients and health professionals.
Some of the advantages of multidisciplinary team workings are as follows.
 Improvement in health outcomes: proper working of multidisciplinary team under
which every individual perform there own functions properly helps in getting proper
health results.
 Enhanced satisfaction for clients: Appropriate individual for specific job and together
with the team workings under the expert guidance, makes an individual satisfied with his/
her jobs. As the works manage properly with no burden.
 More efficient uses of resources: professionals are working together for one foundation,
expertise the workings with optimum utilisation of useful resources and reduce the
wastage of it.
 Job satisfaction for team members: many professional working together under one
organisation and manages the according to their ability and knowledge then this reduces
the chances of work load or extra burden of work. Therefore every individual perform
there own functioning in most effective manner, it enhances the job satisfaction to
individuals.
For example, in Lea Vale health care foundation several professional like doctors or
specialists are working together in order to achieve same desired objectives, makes the
organisational workings effective and efficient if works with full potential and according to the
rules and regulation issued by the national Health Organisation(NHS), so this will be beneficial
for both clients and professional individuals.
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Impacts of inter-professional/ multidisciplinary working and in managing works for better
services
Inter-professional/ multidisciplinary team ensures the optimum functioning of the team
and effective patient good health results the role of multidisciplinary team comprises with the
better care planning and delivery. Multidisciplinary team involves respect and trust between
team members, best use of skill mix together in team, better governance structures and better
system or protocols for interaction and communication between team member ensure better
working conditions and job satisfaction as in case of Lea Vale Health care centre. Some benefits
of multidisciplinary team work for services users are as follows.
 Improvement in health outcomes as its main benefits, professionalism leads to
perfection in work, and the together workings of professional individuals leads to better
results.
 Enhanced satisfaction for clients is also the most beneficial advantage as it helps in
creating the value of the foundations like Lea Vale health care.
 More efficient uses of resources leads to reduction in wastage of resources and savage
of useful resources for future uses.
 Job satisfaction for team members, as there is proper working conditions in an
organisation leads to reducing the chances of work overload and extra burden of work it
helps in satisfaction from job to individual working in it.
Moreover the multidisciplinary/inter-professionals manage the diversity of services users,
manage the diversities of clients as their main motive is to enhances the satisfaction of clients
and it is essential for the long survival of health care foundation like Lea Vale health care
centre(Higgs and et.al., 2018).
Skills and attributes of integrated health centre and ability of effective team
Team work means the place where several individuals works together for a same
objective under the same organisation in coordinate manner. Under an health care foundation
like Lea Vale health care centre, the multidisciplinary/ inter-professional team work is carry on
and several professional individuals are working under the same organisation for
accomplishment of same objectives. So, for this professional skills are required for the effective
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team work. There are several service models are available for the workings of health care
foundations like Lea Vale health care centres. Some of the models are as follows.
Co-location community health and general practice being located together, it does not
ensure integration and its proximity services enhances the opportunities for informal and formal
communication and collaboration.
Hub and spoke, in this model one side acts as central base for the activity and plays a
support and coordination role to spoke or settle services.
Vital integration model involves number of distinctly located providers community
health teams are linked by the communication technologies, its members communicate
electronically and meet face to face rarely. It ensures the coordination and integration in optimal
manner in context of geographical dispersed members of health organisation(anners, 2017).
CONCLUSION
From the above study it has been concluded that the health care foundation like Lea Vale
health centre The Lea Vale foundation operating in order to provide the public health facilities
and to deliver integrated health care services to the people of Lea Vale foundations. This study
pertain knowledge about the team working, healthcare foundation workings ,
multidisciplinary/inter-profession team workings withi9n the organisation and its advantages to
an organisation.
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Books and Journals
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Bhattacharyya, N., 2014. The prevalence of voice problems among adults in the United States.
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Blumenthal, D. and Hsiao, W., 2015. Lessons from the East—China's rapidly evolving health
care system. New England Journal of Medicine. 372(14). pp.1281-1285.
Higgs, J. and et.al., 2018. Clinical reasoning in the health professions. Elsevier Health Sciences.
Manners, R. A., 2017. Professional dominance: The social structure of medical care. Routledge.
National Collaborating Centre for Women's and Children's Health (UK, 2018). Heavy menstrual
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