Question

We have all had visits at medical facilities or head stories of visits wherein the staff were standoffish, rude or seemingly unfriendly. Have you ever thought that this was because the healthcare professional was “Imparied”?

• Define the term “Impaired professional”.

• What are some risks to “professional competence” and “performance”?

• Discuss several examples of physical impairment. Do you think any of these examples affected your medical treatment when you were presented with an “impaired professional”?

Answer 1

ANSWERS :

1. IMPAIRED PROFESSIONAL DEFINITION :

Impaired professional is a one who is a specialist in his or her occupation or work areas, who is professional with having special training, certificates and having license on them, to bear responsibilities of patient care fails in providing health to patients. It is the inability to practice according to their professional standards which results in substance abuse or addiction

2. RISKS TO PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE :

Professional competence is defined as capability to perform profession duty of ones or a task which having special skills and should be acceptable

* Making ineffective, unsatisfactory decision making towards health care

* Inappropriate sampling mechanisms

* Decreased focus on the health care

RISKS TO PERFORMANCE :

* Increase in senior leadership support

* Evaluating of patient safety measures alters

* Legal cases may arise if negligence is shown towards patient care.