Improving Health Outcomes Through Multidisciplinary Care

This report analyzes a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare, focusing on the collaboration between occupational therapists, psychiatric nurses, and care givers to provide comprehensive patient care. It examines the roles of each professional in a case study involving a patient named Clive, highlighting the importance of preventing accidents, addressing mental health issues, and ensuring continuous care. The report also discusses the benefits of these services working together, including cost reduction, leveraging expertise, ensuring continuity of care, and providing seamless service. It emphasizes how each professional benefits from the others' expertise and how they collectively contribute to improved patient outcomes. The agencies involved, such as fire services, council flats, and hospitals, share information through meetings and visits to prevent accidents and improve living conditions for patients like Clive.

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INTRODUCTION

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In the hospital, there is usually an interplay of different professionals
whose agenda however, is to provide the best care possible to the patient. In
this assignment, I will analyze a certain case concerning a patient by the
name Clive who has gone through several problems. The aim of all this is just
to see how the different professionals like occupational therapists,
psychiatric nurses and care givers can work together to ensure that Clive
who is the patient in this case, is offered the best care possible.
ASSIGNMENT P
MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND MULTIAGENCY
Multi agency is a situation whereby different forces or teams or
professionals team up to work in a collaborative manner so as to achieve a
prevention agenda. Multi-disciplinary on the other hand is joining together of
different disciplines as well as professional specialization in an approach to a
certain problem (Poulton, et al.). Like in this case it involves the occupational
therapist, psychiatric nurse and the care givers.
For the case of Clive, there are three different professionals that will
work together to ensure that Clive’s situation is well managed. The three
professionals in this case therefore include the occupational therapist, the
psychiatric nurse and finally the care giver. All this three professionals have
a unique role to play in the case of Clive.
THE OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST.
An occupational therapist is a professional
who works with clients to ensure that they
achieve a fulfilled as well as satisfied state of life
by the use of different activities that are
designed to achieve their objectives that can
bolster health, prevent injury or development of
the disability and finally improving and
sustaining on the highest level of independence
of the patient ("AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION OF
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST”). According to this
case study, Clive has been admitted in the hospital several times due to
injuries sustained after falling. It is the work of the occupational therapist
therefore to prevent such occurrences. One concern that has attributed to
frequent falling of Clive is the absence of a ramp outside his flats. The
Occupational therapist can therefore on ensuring that the ramp is fitted so
that Clive does not fall regularly.

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THE PSYCHIATRIC NURSE.
A psychiatric nurse is the one who has the obligation or rather is
specialized in handling issues to do with mental health. This therefore
includes caring for all patients with mental issues regardless of the age or
gender. Some of the conditions related to mental illness include
schizophrenia, mood disorders, anxiety, psychosis, paranoia, self-harm and
finally personality disorders (Carpenter and Hubbard). Nurses under this
category receive highly specific training in psychological therapies as well as
dealing with very challenging behaviors. According to this case study of
Clive, He is widely believed to be totally confused and delusional. This are
typical characteristics of mental disorders that need special attention from
the psychiatric nurse. The psychiatric nurse therefore has to work in
conjunction with other professionals like the care givers and the occupational
therapist to ensure the best form of care is accorded to Clive.
CARE GIVERS
A care giver is anyone within the social unit that can either be paid or
offer voluntary services in relation to help individuals who are either
impaired due to their old age or certain disabilities or mental disorders as
well. Typical roles for the care giver include taking care of someone who is ill,
ensuring adherence to medications, helping them bathe or dress them and
assisting them to answer the calls of nature. Care givers can also talk to the
doctor on behalf of the patient. According to this case study, Clive is lucky
enough to have one care giver who dresses him at night before he sleeps
and gets him washed as well. Besides, the care giver also provides food to
Clive. This is a good initiative however there was an instance where the care

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giver failed on duty whereby we are told that Clive resorted to urinating in a
bottle. This is not advisable at all.
TYPE OF INFORMATION BEING SHARED BY THE AGENCIES
AND HOW IT IS BEING SHARED.
There are different agencies in
this case that include the fire services,
the council flat and the hospital
agency. Information being shared
include the possible ways of
preventing accidents like the fire
incidence and falling due to lack of the
fitted ramps. This information is being
shared through meetings as well as visits.
ASSIGNMENT M
WHAT ARE BENEFITS OF THIS SERVICES WORKING TOGETHER?

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There are several benefits associated with different services especially
in the healthcare set up. First of all I will define what each service mean and
later on finish by explaining the benefits of how they work together.
COST REDUCTION
Is the operation on a very minimal budget but for the best possible
outcome. Despite reduced costs of operation, the services offered should act
in the maximum benefits of the patient. This a criteria that is mostly used by
hospitals so as to reduce on the expenditure but maximize on the revenues.
HOW PSYCHIATRIC NURSE CAN WORK WITH OTHER PROFESSION TO REDUCE COSTS
In the case of Clive, the psychiatric nurse can work with other
professions to reduce costs by making frequent visits to ensure Clive has the
best services without necessarily travelling to the hospital. The psychiatric
nurse can also do that by sharing ideas with other professions on how to
improve the condition of Clive.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST HOW WORKING WITH OTHER PROFESSIONALS CAN REDUCE COSTS.
Occupational therapist can effectively work with other professions to
reduce costs by preventing injuries to Clive so that he does not use a lot of
money seeking treatment.
HOW CARE GIVERS CAN WORK WITH OTHER PROFESSIONALS TO REDUCE COSTS.
Care givers can work with other professionals by providing them on the
progress of Clive and how he is responding on medication so that they avoid
excess costs in buying unnecessary medicines.
BENEFITS OF USE OF EXPERTISE
HOW PSYCHIATRIC NURSE CAN BENEFIT FROM OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERTISE
As explained earlier, professional expertise are the skills that an expert
has. In this case, a psychiatric nurse can really benefit from other
professional expertise in many ways. One such way is that they can get
information on how to avoid injuries and this expertise can be got from the
occupational therapist
HOW CARE GIVERS CAN BENEFIT FROM THE EXPERTISE OF OTHER PROFESSIONALS.
The core function of the care giver is to ensure that Clive is well taken
care of. However, a care giver can really benefit from the expertise of other
professionals like occupational therapists and psychiatric nurses. In this case,

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a care giver can benefit from the expertise of the psychiatric nurse on how to
effectively provide care to patients with mental disorders.
HOW OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST CAN BENEFIT FROM THE EXPERTISE OF OTHER PROFESSIONALS.
As explained earlier, the function of the occupational therapist is to
ensure that the patient does not suffer from any injury. Like in this case of
Clive, the occupational therapist should advocate the fixing of ramps at the
council flats to prevent Clive from being injured. The occupational therapist
can therefore benefit from the expertise of the psychiatric nurse on how to
prevent injuries in patients with mental disorders.
CONTINUITY OF CARE.
Continuity of care advocates that the patient is subjected to quality
care throughout the intervention.
HOW PSYCHIATRIC NURSE CAN BENEFIT FROM OTHER PROFESSIONALS TO CONTINUE
CARE
In the case of continuity of care, the psychiatric can really benefit a
lot.One such way the can benefit is through the continuous providence of
services by the occupational therapist. Continuous will at least make the
work easier to the psychiatric nurse since there will be constant obligations
from each professional.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST BENEFIT OF WORKING WITH OTHER PROFESSIONALS TO
CONTINUE CARE.
The function of the occupational therapist is to prevent injuries to the
Patient who is Clive in this case. The occupational therapist can therefore
benefit from continue of care since he can get that chance to interact with
both the psychiatric nurse and the care givers on how to provide the best
quality of services to the patient who is Clive in this case.
CARE GIVER BENEFIT OF WORKING WITH OTHER PROFESSIONALS TO CONTINUE CARE.
Since it is the function of the care giver to provide care to the Clive
who is the patient, care givers can really benefit by ensuring there is
constant contact between the occupational therapists and the psychiatric
nurses.
SEAMLESS SERVICE.
Seamless service is used to imply the pathway that a patient goes
through from the time he or she makes the first contact until all the
processes are complete.

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HOW PSYCHIATRIC NURSE CAN WORK WITH OTHER PROFESSIONALS TO PROVIDE GOOD
SERVICE TO CLIVE.
The core role of a psychiatric nurse in the case of Clive is to enable him
go over his mental disorders. The psychiatric nurse in this care can therefore
ensure quality services by seeking the progress of Clive from other
professionals like the care givers and occupational therapists so that he can
know on where to improve on.
OCCUPATIONAL THERAPIST WORKING WITH OTHER PROFESSIONALS TO ENSURE CONTINUING OF SERVICE.
The major role of the occupational therapist is to prevent Clive from
getting injured. In this case, the occupational therapist can ensure continue
of care by seeking information from the psychiatric nurse and the care givers
on how best to improve the condition of Clive so that he does not get injured.
CARE GIVER BENEFIT OF WORKING WITH OTHER PROFESSIONALS TO CONTINUE CARE.
The core role of the care giver is to provide care to Clive at home and
at the hospital through ensuring adhering to medication, providing food and
dressing the patient. The care givers can really benefit from other
professionals to continue care by sharing information to both the psychiatric
nurse and the occupational nurse on how to effectively give care to patients
with a mental disorder like Clive.
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