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COURSE OUTLINE HCA 200 Interpersonal Communications 50 Hours Assignment paper 1. Review the following case study Barbara is a HCA who has been working on the general medicine unit for the past year. Today she is being asked to mentor David, a newly hired HCA. David has been working as a casual in residential care and will be working as a casual HCA on Barbara's medical unit as well. Today is the first day that David will begin his mentorship with Barbara. Just as Barbara and David are about to get Mr. Roberts out of bed, Barbara is called by the LPN to offer assistance to Mrs. Jones in the next room. When she returns to Mr. Roberts' room, she sees David struggling to get Mr. Roberts out of bed. David identifies that the physiotherapy assistant who just popped in the room a few moments ago stated that Mr. Roberts can get out of bed on his own. Mr. Roberts is an ALC (Alternate Level of Care) patient and has been on the medical unit for the past 30 days and is well known to Barbara. A second patient on this unit, also named Mr. Roberts, had been admitted for pneumonia several days ago and is awaiting his discharge. 2. Discuss the following questions: a. How might Barbara approachr bavid about his decision to get Mr. Roberts out of bed? What recommendations should Barbara suggest to David about his future decision-making processes related to patient care? b. c. What other team members should be made aware of this situation? d. Identify two ways that interprofessional communication could be improved in this scenario?

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2, a, David did mentorship with Barbara; that time, Barbara decided to get Mr.Robert out of bed...David unaware of a patient with the same name in the same room..due to lack of communication, David provided the wrong care for the wrong patient.
b, Lack of communication creates medical error...Effective practice in a clinical setting needs accurate communication and team collaboration. Recommendation Barbara should suggest to David that his future decision-making process related to patient care needs collaboration and communication and can reduce disruptive events. Policies should be followed in standard protocols. Structured communication with the team and experienced staff will minimize error and help correct patient care.
c, Interdisciplinary team members include health care providers, social workers, therapists, clinicians. In this scenario, the physiotherapist needs the correct approach to communicate the correct patient for David. Physiotherapists treat an individual for their medical problem for their disability to perform daily living activities. Health care provisions, interdisciplinary team interacting professions, and departments need collaboration to provide high-quality patient outcomes. Interdisciplinary work is a complex process when making decisions for patient centered care with different skills and knowledge..collaboration helps to share their common knowledge, goal, planning, or evaluating patient care..open communication helps the shared decision-making process easy.
d, Health care professional play a particular role in an interdisciplinary team; in this scenario
-Interdisciplinary team collaboration with other staff for patient care improve quality and provides patient safety.
Various Team training programs in pre-defined interventions to implement patient care help to avoid patient confusion, improve patient safety, interdisciplinary work-proof cooperation among the workers, ensure patient safety, and avoid errors.