Question

Objective: To reflect on the interprofessional roles (MD, SW, OT, PT, RT, RD, PharmD) you saw on the unit and describe communication between them and the nurse.  

List all of the different providers that were involved in your patient’s care. What was the focus of each of these providers in the patient’s care? What was your nursing focus in the patient’s care? Be specific and give examples.

How did you or the nurse communicate with each different provider? How did each provider communicate with the nurse? Be specific and give examples.  

What did you see done well and what would you improve? What would you specifically do to improve it?

is about reflection on clinical site

Answer 1

Different providers:
Doctors: They provide care for the patient directly by making a medical diagnosis to treat the patient conditions with various illnesses.
Pharmacist: Thye provides medication and other essential supplies for the patient with doctor prescription, they have the drug knowledge about side effects, action, chemicals included, toxins, etc. they help patients for follow-up medication adherence and schedule.
Administrative staff: Thye handle patient payment, admission, appointment, health insurance, etc.
Technician: find the relevant diagnosis by making various tests and analyses and radiology reports.
Therapist:
Speech therapist: Provide speech therapy for the patient to find speech defects and correct the problem
Occupational therapist: Provide rehabilitation service for mental illness and other physically challenged people
Physiotherapist: They regulate muscle functions on a regular basis for their abnormally.
Nurse: Work with doctors in inpatient care for recovery by taking vital signs and making physical examinations and administering medications.
there are the health care teams work together to address the patient health issues. this team starts from doctors and contact others for specialized service
Example: If a patient comes to emergency with the complaint of excess sweating and breathing difficulty, the doctor is the primary health care provider they do an assessment with the patient condition and communicate with the patient for initial care for the patient, they contact a technician for various blood investigation, ECG, x-ray, etc. They contact administrative staff for patient admission, coverage, etc. These health care providers communicate with each other for a patient dealing with health conditions and recovery.
Health IT helps health care providers to communicate easily and it coordinates a care plan for the patient, it helps to share the information and achieve health equity.
Increasing access to technology help communicate easily and it obtains process and understands health information to make good health decision for the patient.