Question

8. Explain how both interdisciplinary teams and communication impact both the quality and outcomes of hospice and palliative care.

Answer 1

In all the hospitals now , there is a team for all the different systems and units which comprises of various different disciplines other than doctors and nurses. All these people come together to give proper care to the patient and to improve their life.

It is a very helpful method to put together the two methods which is interdisciplinary team and communication together inorder to provide the quality and good outcome of the hospice and palliative care. This methods will help in the providing of the patient with proper care which evber required on the right time like if the drugs are required to be changed immediately the pharmacist will change it at once or if the lab records are to be checked immediately it will be done but the lab incharge on the very moment etc. This will make the people happy to be getting all the required attention on and at the time immediately and will make th feel happy to be attended by all the different staffs of the hospital at once.

Also the communication is a major and the basic part of the treatment or care to be provided by the health care provider. A proper communication with the people of the hospice care or the palliative care will help them to gain confidence and to rely on the healthcare person. It will help them to share their feeling with the health care people which will make it easier for them to treat and to understand the problems faced by their patients.