EXPLAIN HOW INTERPROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION WILL HELP REDUCE ERRORS, PROVIDE HIGHER-QUALITY CARE, AND INCREASE SAFETY NRS 440

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EXPLAIN HOW INTERPROFESSIONAL COLLABORATION WILL HELP REDUCE ERRORS, PROVIDE HIGHER-QUALITY CARE, AND INCREASE SAFETY NRS 440

Topic 2 DQ 1

Explain how interprofessional collaboration will help reduce errors, provide higher-quality care, and increase safety. Provide an example of a current or emerging trend that will require more, or change the nature of, interprofessional collaboration.

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Interprofessional collaboration is a process involving jointly advantageous active participation between independent professionals in which each member of the health care team has knowledge and skills that underwrite to the care provided and their relationships are governed by negotiated shared norms and visions (Melkamu et al., 2020). Teamwork and collaboration are competencies expected of healthcare professionals and refer to functioning effectively within nursing and interprofessional teams, fostering open communication, mutual respect, and shared decision making to achieve quality patient care (Masters, 2017). Collaboration requires communication among team members involved where every professional take part of their clinical expertise, that is within their scope of practice. Interdisciplinary team conference can be considered interprofessional collaboration. The more eyes laid on the patient, the more chances of reducing, if not eliminate errors. All members of the interprofessional healthcare team must combine their skills knowledge, and resources to improve outcomes, and nurses and physicians must modify their traditional roles and work more collaboratively as colleagues (Masters, 2017).

The trend that is being helpful nowadays is the emergence of electronic medical record (EMR). With paperless charting, communication is now accessible electronically. A good example is the platform (data software) used by big healthcare systems such as Ascension (formerly Amita) and Duly Health (formerly Dupage Medical Group) in Illinois. These two systems can now view each other’s chartings provided the patient consented on merging data. This makes it easier for medical providers provide continuity of care without waiting for fax or hard copy of diagnostics or lab results as well as progress notes.

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Eneyew Melkamu, Solomon Woldemariam, & Abera Haftu. (2020). Inter-professional collaboration of nurses and midwives with physicians and associated factors in Jimma University specialized teaching hospital, Jimma, south West Ethiopia, 2019: cross sectional study. BMC Nursing, 19(1), 1–9. https://doi-org.lopes.idm.oclc.org/10.1186/s12912-020-00426-w

Masters, K., (2017). Role development in professional nursing. Jones and Bartlett Learning

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Gregory Pryor

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Aug 4, 2022, 9:10 AM

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Hello Joseph, 

I agree with your post. What healthcare professionals must first realize is that each profession has an area of expertise and respect of the specialty is of the utmost importance. There or medical issues, nursing issues, and pharmaceutical issues. Collaboration of the professions allows the team to come together and resolve issues. Take for example a medication issue. It could lie within how the medication was transcribed by the physician, or how the medication is being administered by the nurse, or the preparation and delivery of  the medication to the nursing unit(Irajpour et al.,2019). I can recall when medications were coming to the nursing h if and needed to be reconstituted at the time of delivery. Some nurses were not reconstituting the medication because they missed the inservice and was failing to deliver the dose. With the next dose due the nurse would discover the bag of medicine not reconstituted. Discovery of a medication that could cause great harm to a patient, especially if the following nurse did not follow up on the missing dose. The third problem lie in that the reconstituted medication was not dissolved in the amount of fluid the order was written. If all three professions were collaborating together the medication issue could have been avoided or discovered before the patient condition deteriorated to sepsis.

Reference 

Irajpour, A., Farzi, S., Saghaei, M., & Ravaghi, H. (2019). Effect of interprofessional education of medication safety program on the medication error of physicians and nurses in the intensive care units. Journal of Education and Health Promotion.

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Samuel Lebeanya

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Aug 4, 2022, 11:47 PM

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Hello, Joseph.

Thank you for your initial discussion post you shared. Interprofessional collaboration is an essential tool in healthcare practice because of its numerous benefits it poses to the healthcare industry. First, there is a shared decision-making process that helps in creating meaningful and reliable decisions in healthcare service provision (McNiff, 2018). Besides, the patient gets satisfactory services because different healthcare professionals have different areas of specialization hence they offer specialized services. Many healthcare facilities should encourage the use of interprofessional collaboration in care delivery so that patients and their family members enjoy benefits attached to it.

Reference

McNiff, P. (2018). Current Trends in Nursing Practice. In Trends in Health Care: A Nursing Perspective. Grand Canyon University (Ed). https://lc.gcumedia.com/nrs440vn/trends-in-health-care-a-nursing-perspective/v1.1/#/chapter/2