Interprofesional Activities Analysis

By using the right literature this assignment will examine an outpatient department, critically analysing and exploring how professionals in this setting work effectively together and what hinders their interprofessional working. Further more the essay will identify the key issues and concept of interprofessional working in health care as a whole. Lastly the essay will also conclude by drawing together the main points and principle argument.

Pharmacists are part of the patient care team, responsible for overseeing the best, safe, and management cost on medication therapy using evidenced of medicine to improve patient care in all patients. Medical staff and other team are depending on pharmacists on their knowledge of drugs and collaborative practice. In larger hospital there are pharmacists on different floors and opportunity to interact with other. Hospital pharmacists gather with multidisciplinary team to help improve therapy by providing clinical services to patients. Let see how pharmacist’s role in the hospital setting and a scenario where the pharmacist’s involvement make an impact on health facility, medical team, and patient. To begin with, I will talk about pharmacist’s

As future pharmacists, we are going to face with not only the medications but also the patients, which the former ones are our tools while the latter ones are the people we use correct tools to care about. We are required to combine our pharmacy knowledge among medications with patients’ different health conditions to create the patient-centered care and provide the best outcomes. However, this care trend is in transition now, from professional-orientated to patient-centered.

As time goes by, people get infected with new diseases or current prevailing diseases. Consequently, new drugs are produced in an attempt to overcome these diseases, which results in patients with complex health needs. The complexity of the patients’ healthcare therefore needs to be addressed by more than one discipline. Interprofessional collaborative care is a type of health care that involves people from different professions working together and relying on each other to provide effective care to patients. Interprofessional collaborative care is important and predominantly a focus of the health care reform because it improves healthcare outcome for the patients and reduces disagreements between different professions. I was able to experience interprofessional care when my grandma was diagnosed with cancer. The physician and the pharmacist worked together in ensuring that she got the proper medication that would not have any side effects on her. In addition, the physician would call the pharmacy every two weeks to check on my grandma’s progress and to ensure that she had picked up her medications. Both my grandma and I were grateful because we felt that our needs were taken care of appropriately. Moreover, interprofessional health care is important in a curriculum because if helps the students to be better prepared to work as a team. This is achieved by teaching students about their own profession while receiving an understanding of the other professions and the roles they

During the two and a half years of my pharmacy journey, I have been thinking what can a pharmacist do within the healthcare interprofessional team to better help the patients in order to achieve the best health outcome. I work in a clinic as well as inpatient pharmacy, additionally, I had my rotations at CVS and Regions Hospital. all these experiences shape my version of the pharmacists at different settings. Therefore, in various pharmacy settings, pharmacists can work differently with the whole healthcare team. The recent PED-Rx events inspired me how important pharmacists can play roles in when working in a team.

This article was selected as it explained and discussed the probable standardized procedure that health care organizations may have to follow for improvements in patient safety. This article explains how the inter-personal and professional relationship of different health care providers need to be maintained for better health care as explained in one of the chapters of health care management.

I have been an integral member of the multidisciplinary teams, as a result I have had the opportunity to contribute to consultant led ward rounds and management meetings in all these teams. I have offered medicines information to clinicians on prescribing advice on mental health disorders in special groups of patients; these include children, pregnant women, lactating mothers, older adults, patients with disabilities. Through this experience I have developed my communication, problem solving, and time management and prioritisation skills. I have participated in trust governance initiatives such as identification and reporting medicines related errors, taken part in medicines related investigations and in the review of patients treatments following serious

Interprofessional care consist of multiple health care professionals from different professions working together on the same collaborative team to provide the best possible health care to the patient to ensure the best outcome for the patient. A interprofessional team consist of any health care professionals, for example physicians, pharmacist, social workers, nurses, and physical therapist. Each professional has there own defined role and their strengths are optimized to provide the best care to the patient. In order for the team to work team members must respect and value other members opinions and ideas about decisions for the patient, even if you might disagree with another members opinion. For the best possible chance of achieving the best outcome for the patient, everyone on the team must collaborate together to help the patient. The Pharmacist 's role has evolved over the past years. Before, pharmacist used to just dispense the medicine the physicians prescribed. Now, pharmacist are a integral part of the interprofessional team. Pharmacist now go on rounds with the team, talk to patients one on one to discuss how to manage there disease, and many other things. Even though a pharmacist does much more then just dispense medicine, many patients and some professionals still think that 's all they do. When a pharmacist first starts doing rounds with physicians and nurses ', they may be confused as to what exactly the pharmacists role is, when in fact the pharmacist is a

As the delivery of care becomes more complex, the need to coordinate care among physicians, nurses, pharmacists, social workers, and others becomes ever more important. In the face of increasingly complex health issues, several institutions have proposed inter-professional education (IPE) as a way to improve teamwork among health professionals and move health systems from fragmentation to collaboration, with the goal of improving health outcomes (Schmitt, Blue, Aschenbrener & Viggiano, 2011). This key competency also has been included in the accreditation standards for pharmacy, medicine, nursing, and dentistry. Additionally, core competencies for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice were developed to provide tools to prepare future health professions for interprofessional, team-based, and patient-centered care (American Association of Colleges of Nursing [AACN] 2012). These collaborative competencies connects to the five core competencies identified by the Institute of Medicine and are instrumental in working effectively with other health professions, patients, and families (Bethea, Holland & Reddick, 2014).

The World Health Organization has described interprofessional education and collaborative practice in the following “Interprofessional education occurs when students from two or more professions learn about, from and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes. Interprofessional education is a necessary step in preparing a ‘collaborative practice-ready’ health workforce that is better prepared to respond to local health needs.” 1 A question proposed is “why is interprofessional education important?” and an answer to this can be found within the WHO’s description of interprofessional education, in order to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes. If interprofessional education improves health outcomes then that is a definite reason that it is important, for health care professionals one of the most important responsibilities is to improve health outcomes, which is only slightly less important than “do no harm” in my eyes. A cornerstone of interprofesssional education is communication. I am going to propose a situation where there is no communication between health care professionals. A mother brings a prescription for her 3 month old daughter to a pharmacy, the prescription reads “Amoxicillin 400mg/5ml suspension Give 10ml by mouth three times daily” the pharmacist at this point has two options: 1) fill the prescription as is and assume the Dr. is correct (even though the facility software says the dose is too high) 2)

Led by a preamble, the first section of the code is “I. A pharmacist respects the covenantal relationship between the patient and pharmacist.” This code is grounded in the principle that has been entrusted with a gift and must thus be committed to their professional responsibility. The second section – “II. A pharmacist promotes the good of every patient in a caring, compassionate, and confidential manner.” - is grounded in the principle that Pharmacists must place a priority on the overall well-being of the patient in their care. Section three “III. A pharmacist respects the autonomy and dignity of each patient.” declares that Pharmacists act with manners of respect and equality with all patients. The next section “V. A pharmacist acts with honesty and integrity in professional relationships.” calls for truthfulness and honesty by Pharmacists in all

Even though healthcare professionals may be practicing in different fields, performing different roles, having different ranks, or getting educated and trained differently, we all practice to achieve one main goal, and that is to provide excellent patient-centered care. Pharmacists, nurses, physicians, optometrists, and even social workers strive for the better outcome of their patients. Most, not necessarily all of the time, healthcare professionals work together to provide this best care for their patients. This type of care is known as interprofessional care. Some healthcare professionals interact with pharmacists on a regular basis, and others interact with them on a very limited basis.

Patient safety is the cornerstone of high-quality health care. It makes the care centres safer to the patients. Patient safety is a fundamental principle of health care which emphasizes the reporting, analysis, and prevention of medical error that often leads to adverse health care events. We can say that it is the heart of the health care. It will contribute to build a foundation of knowledge and skills that will better prepare providers to providing safer care and also it will help generate a workforce of health-care professionals educated in patient safety and capable of meeting the demands of today 's complex and busy health-care environment. The use of effective communication among patients and healthcare professionals is critical for achieving a patient 's optimal health outcome. During complex situations, communication between health professionals must be at its best. Reducing the errors and improving the patient safety is the primary goal of the health care team.

During my time working as a technician, I have interacted with multiple pharmacists at different retail pharmacy locations. Because of this, I observed how pharmacists interact with patients and gained experience adapting to different clientele to best fit their needs. I love the feeling of instant gratification that I get when I am able to help a patient. Through my experience, I realized that pharmacist’s play a vital role in patient care. I have seen how pharmacists counsel patients and create

A pharmacist works collaboratively with other health professionals to optimize the health outcomes of consumers.