Running head: INTERDISCIPLINARY COLLABORATION: CONCEPT ANALYSIS WITHIN HEALTHCARE Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Concept Analysis within Healthcare Oseni O. Abiri University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama Given the complexity of healthcare system today, effective and efficient collaboration and communication among team members is critical to ensure patient safety. Daniel & Rosentein (2008) reported that during a typical patient’s hospital stay, a patient may interact with 50 different employees that may include doctors, nurses, laboratory technicians, etc. They also reported that when healthcare professional are not communicating and collaborating effectively, patient safety is at risk for several reasons: break in communication flow, misinterpretation of information, incorrect telephone orders and overlooked orders. In this paper my aim is to conduct a concept analysis of Interdisciplinary Collaboration in the context of healthcare with focus on the professional nurses. I will consider what this concept represents, how the concept is currently been used in nursing profession among others. The walker and Avant’s concept analysis method will be used in this paper. Table 1: The eight steps of Concept Analysis (Walker & Avant, 2011) 1 Select a concept 2 Determine the aims or purpose 3 Identify uses of the concept that you can discover 4 Determine the defining attributes 5 Identify a model case 6 identify bordeline, related, contrary,
As shown, communication is a critical to hospital’s patient safety. The Joint Commission is a regulatory agency that makes hospital think about
Searches were made through the online library at Grand Canyon University. Results were refined to include on peer reviewed studies with keywords as combinations of: Safety briefing (45 results), patient safety plus nursing plus communication (1769), patient safety and interdisciplinary (45). Of the results obtained, the list was further refined to those studies that discussed the issue of communication in a team environment and risk of errors, or leadership follow up. Studies were not included if they were considered to be out of scope for the issue. Ultimately ten articles were identified as being pertinent to the subject, or had conclusions that could be extrapolated to the issue in question. From these search results four studies have been chosen for this paper to support the relevance of the issue.
In the article, "Improving Patient Safety by Standardizing Handoff Communications" (Danis, 2007), the purpose of the study was to implement a standardized approach to handoff communication and to improve compliance in using a handoff communication form. The study was based on the lack of standardized communication as the root cause of issues surrounding how patients receive care and safety and addressed the JACHO 2006 National Patient Safety Goals requiring a standardized approach in handoff communications. The study found that implementing a handoff communication form increased communications about patients between staff of each department. It concluded that staffs were more aware of communication gaps and the difficulties in communicating in the complex health care environment. This study is important for bringing more awareness and solutions to the problem of interdepartmental communications to ensure that patients will continue to
You are so correct, it is importance for us health professionals to share a common understanding of patient safety standards and practices and improve patient safety depends largely on the ways in which we; share and learn with other health professionals as well as students. We must improve the way we treat each other by using respect and compassion, and learn from one another and from patient safety events or any challenges that impact the ability for us as health professionals, to improve is to ensure better patient outcomes and patient experience in (Milstead 2015 [Power Point slide 6-10).
‘Clear and complete communication between health care providers is a prerequisite for safe patient management. Which is a major priority of the Joint Commission's 2008 National Patient Safety Goals and long-term care (LCT). (Commission, 2008)
The American Nurses Association (ANA) “Code of Ethics for Nurses” (ANA, 2001) states: “The nurse promotes, advocates for, and strives to protect the health, safety, and rights of the patient”. This reflects that advocating for the patient directly correlates with the safety and well-being of the patient. The key part to patient advocacy is effective communication. In recent times, there has been a focus on the connection of effective communication between healthcare workers and patient safety. A number of Institute of Medicine reports has brought focus to the severe matter. The reports have emphasized the concern of the lack of communication in the healthcare setting and the resulting negative patient outcomes. (Hanks, 2012a). This goes back to the notion that while many healthcare professionals consider themselves as a working member of a team, we have the natural tendency to work autonomously. Therefore, it is the nurse’s duty to collaborate patient centered care by practicing good communication skills with the entire healthcare team, the patient, and the patient’s family if consent is given to assure patient safety.
“Organizations with a positive safety culture are characterized by communications founded on mutual trust, by shared perceptions of the importance of safety and by confidence in the efficacy of preventive measures” (Stavrianopoulos, 2012, pg, 202). Communication and teamwork go hand and hand. An effective teamwork involves effective communication. No communication can lead to possible medical errors, whether the failure to communicate comes from the patient to the nurse or between the health care providers. Evidence based care is another factor which aids in safety. “Healthcare organizations that demonstrate evidence-based best practices, including standardized processes, protocols, checklists, and guidelines, are considered to exhibit a culture of safety” (Stavrianopoulos, 2012, pg, 203). Providing better safety means learning from the past mistakes. By understanding the root of the issue, which would then lead to learning how to improve the situation. Educational training about safety should be available for medical staff to attend and learn if there was to be any doubt in he or she’s mind. Patient centered care is another factor in providing safety. It focuses on the patient and their family. Helping patient’s and family be more active in the care of the health plan can lead to safer and better
Collaboration is a functional concept repetitively discussed in health care atmosphere. The benefits are well corroborated. Until now, collaboration is not often practiced between the professional healthcare system. Much of the research literature on collaboration describes what should occur to obtain a positive outcome, but not much is documented describing how to approach the developmental process of collaboration.
Health care professionals have multiple responsibilities and one among them is ability to transfer patient information or handoff to another healthcare provider. Clear and accurate handoff communication between healthcare providers of operating room team is an integral part to patient safety. Exchange of patient information occurs many times a day and are vulnerable to communication errors that may negatively impact patient safety. In fact, poor communication is one of the reported cause of sentinel events within United States hospitals and is at high risk often among surgical patients than in any other clinical specialty. Surgical patients move from perioperative to intraoperative to post-operative areas and transition between these specific points requires effective communication. Rapid turnovers are most often vulnerable to communication errors that could lead to fatal implications.
Open communication is essential part to a successful healthcare team that directly impacts patient’s lives. In the video “Just a Routine Operation, ” by Laedal Medical Human Factors in Patient Safety, physicians and nurses demonstrates how different human factors contribute to the overall outcome of the patient. Elaine, the patient in the video came into the hospital for a reconstruction surgery. However, during the surgery Elaine had a complication and because the lack of communication, assertiveness, self-awareness, decision-making, teamwork, and prioritization, Elaine did not survive the surgery. This situation shows how important these characteristics are when dealing with emergency care. Even the health care professional with the years
Team work and Interprofessional coordination are illustrated at all levels of patient management. The staff accessibility to online health records indeed contributed to associate with other professionals. In addition, active participation of all the members supported team work.
Teamwork and communication are very important in providing good quality care, especially in the healthcare field. A team is described as a group of people that works together and cooperatively, between each member of the group to reach a common goal (Sullivan, 2013). For a team to function, communication is essential. A report by McKay and Crippen (2008), as stated by Alfaro-LeFevre, (2013) showed that when collaboration is in place, hospitals can decrease their mortality rate by 41%. When mortality rate is lower, hospitals does not only decreased cost, but it also means that patients are receiving good quality care.
A concept is an image molded from ones on personal experience, knowledge, expectations and emotions. Concepts are the abstractions and the building blocks of theories and conceptual frameworks. Theories and conceptual framework explain a particular phenomenon by linking the concept. As concepts are the mental images, different individuals have different opinion about a concept or a same understanding, concept analysis is crucial to explain each concept. Concept analysis allow the researchers to advance science and create new knowledge. Walker and Avant’s conceptual framework is an eight step process which includes (1) Select a concept (2) Determine the aims or purposes of analysis (3) Identify all uses of the concept that you can discover
The role of patients in improving patient safety is another important topic being discussed in the healthcare industry. Gibson (2007) stated patients have three roles in improving patient safety. According to Gibson (2007), in order for health facilities to improve patient safety, patients need to report all safety concerns to health providers so they can be addressed along with the other concerns conveyed by doctors, pharmacists, nurses, and others. Secondly, patients and family members are encouraged to ask questions and listen to physician orders once he or she makes their rounds. Since documentation is vital in the healthcare industry, all medical records, orders, and notes are entered on laptops in each patient room. Once a physician has
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.