Interprofessional Collaboration for Advanced Breast Cancer Patients

This presentation focuses on an interprofessional collaboration plan for managing patients with advanced breast cancer. The plan emphasizes a multidisciplinary team approach, highlighting the complexity of the disease and the need for coordinated care. The presentation addresses the patient issue, the relevance of an interdisciplinary approach, and the benefits of a multidisciplinary team, including improved survival rates and training opportunities. The objective is to improve patient survival and satisfaction through effective treatment and tumor control. The plan's implementation involves a team meeting weekly, resource optimization, and independent audits. Evaluation criteria include increased survival rates and patient satisfaction. The presentation also covers resource management, including prioritizing patients, palliative care, and accountability. The presentation includes multiple references to support the ideas and plans discussed. This presentation aims to generate interest and buy-in for the plan proposal, offering a comprehensive overview of the issue, proposed solutions, and evaluation metrics.

INTERPROFESSION
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COLLABORATION

Patient Issue
 The issue being solved here is to assist a patient with breast
cancer which is advanced. Management of breast cancer is a
complex process which requires a collaborative team approach.
 Patients suffering from breast cancer undergo a lot of changes in
their body and this greatly affects their physical as well as
psychological health.

Patient issue
 A multidisciplinary team caring for a cancer patient needs to
ensure ongoing communication and active sharing of
information.
 Patients suffering from breast cancer needs constant care from
different health professionals because of the complexity of the
disease (Sudore et al., 2017).
 This issue should be solved because failure to solve it could lead
to progression of the disease and death of the patient.

Relevance of interdisciplinary
approach
 A multidisciplinary approach is the best approach in treating
patients suffering from breast cancer because it is a complex
disease.
 Treatment of the disease requires combination of ideas and
different medical expertise for a patient to receive appropriate
care and for them to get the best treatment (Quinlan et al.,
2013).
 There is no single medical professional who can treat breast
cancer by themselves without the assistance of other
professionals .

Relevance of multidisciplinary
team
 Multidisciplinary approach to treatment of breast cancer should
also be used because evidence has shown that the survival rates
for cancer patient improves if this approach is used (Lamb et al.,
2013).
 Research has also established that discussion of individual cases
with patients provides an excellent opportunity for training
nurses and physicians.

Interdisciplinary summary plan
 The objective of the multidisciplinary team is to improve the
chances of survival of the patient .
 The other objective is to offer effective treatment to the patient
which will alter the progress of the tumor and remove all the
existing tumor.
 The team also aims at improving the satisfaction of patients.

Interdisciplinary sumary
 The multidisciplinary approach is very likely going to be effective
in achieving the above objectives. This is because the team
entire team will be involved in making the initial treatment plan
for the patient.
 The committee be meeting every week to deliberate on progress
and identify changes that could be made to the plan

Evaluation
 Successful implementation of the project will result in increased
survival rate for patients with breast cancer.
 The success of the project will therefore be measured by the
satisfaction of the patients and
 Increase in survival rates of patients suffering from breast cancer.

Impletation and resource
management
 The resource will be used optimally , a three members of the
team will be appointed and given the responsibility of utilizing
the available resources. An independent audit will also be done to
establish how resources within the team are being used.

Implementation and resource
management
 Wastage of resources will be avoided by prioritizing patients who
have a good chance of survival (Borras et al., 2014).
 Patients who are at the last stage of the disease should be
offered palliative care to ease the symptoms of the disease.
 The expenditure of the resources is justified by use of supporting
documents for every expenditure item. This will ensure that there
is accountability in the use of all resources allocated to the team.

References
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Knox, S. (2014). Policy statement on multidisciplinary cancer care.
European Journal of Cancer, 50(3), 475-480.
 Lamb, B. W., Taylor, C., Lamb, J. N., Strickland, S. L., Vincent, C., Green, J. S.
A., & Sevdalis, N. (2013). Facilitators and barriers to teamworking and
patient centeredness in multidisciplinary cancer teams: findings of a
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 Sudore, R. L., Lum, H. D., You, J. J., Hanson, L. C., Meier, D. E., Pantilat, S. Z.,
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 Quinlan, E., & Robertson, S. (2013). The communicative power of nurse
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