Question

How do health care policies banning tobacco and alcohol use at the workplace positively impact your community and those that you care for in a hospital setting?

Next, discuss the importance that interdisciplinary collaboration would have related to the policy.

Then, identify any ethical concerns it raises for you and why?

Also, what is the interdisciplinary team's involvement in the policy? who will be a part of the interdisciplinary team? and why?

Answer 1

Work place should be most comfortable and suitable for employees, co-workers, and also for the family members, who take care of the patients in the hospital setting.Banning tobacco and alcohol provides a positive impact over the institution managing, also provides safety and comfort to all the persons involved.Helps to improve best health care practices.

Interdisciplinary action together helps to avoid or ban tobacco and alcohol completely.Single person alone could not find a way to ban it.

Ethical concerns raises from the societies who feel as tobacco can be a part of their culture.Also from the people who depends on producing tobacco and alcohol especially the workers..

Interdisciplinary team plays a major role in this policy to work together and ban the most impacted tobacco and alcohol ob people lives.The interdisciplinary team should have a Doctor, health care workers such as Nurses, paramedics, Social workers,Researchers, Lawyers etc.Doctors and Nurses will be able to present the effects of tobacco on people health.Researchers will show the impact, Social workers will demonstrate the effects of tobacco and alcohol on the families of people consuming it.Lawyers are needed to take forward the policy legally.

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