Inter-professional Care Competencies

 

 

 

 

 

 

Inter-professional Care Competencies

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Introduction

Inter-professional care competencies include collaboration with others to provide quality healthcare services to individuals requiring the services. The representation involves a client served following the strategies in the inter-professional care collaboration. The presentation includes the approach to the case followed and handled for research. In the article, it explains how solving clients issues through providing quality healthcare services improved health of the individual. Examination and completion of the task involved incorporating the inter-professional care competencies as discussed in the presentation.

Three main objectives of inter-professional core competencies

Team functioning

            The main objective of inter-professional care competencies is team functioning, inter-professional communication, and collaborative leadership. The three main ideas in the healthcare services provision go hand in hand to reach the goal of the activities scheduled in a nursing practice organization. Team functioning includes the incorporation of all aspects in nursing activities to involve professionals in sharing ideas and assisting each other to come up with a solution to an issue concerning a patient at hand (Paediatr, 2014). Teamwork promotes a more effective healthcare delivery system that is patient-centred. A series of events ranging from researches, agreements, discussions and tips on how to approach an issue makes the team come up with a solution that positively reflects welfare of the patients.

Inter-professional communication

Inter-professional communication involved sharing ideas through effective information delivery approaches that make the task easier. In a case when handling a diabetic woman aged 65, communication was a vital necessity to improve the function. According to the illness, the patient required discharge from hospital to have private care from home. The process required proper communication to examine the patient from home. Since the routine of the nurses is held by busy schedules at work, a plan for the hours to attend to the patient was set. The patient needed some check-ups daily. Communication strategies require a community-based system that the patients can reach the healthcare offices for any kind of assistance including the emergency responses (Vega & Bernard, 2016). Defining the outcomes of good research involves sharing the details with other experts for the examination to improve the response speed to the findings and service to the patients. Circulation of information within the research department helps in generating new ideas and advancement of the original ideas with unique approaches on how to deal with a health issue at hand.

Collaborative leadership

Collaborative leadership in healthcare services also contributes to promoting the health of patients through collective control from professionals. Due to a challenging field of operation in healthcare, some of the strategies used include the management of the steps followed in coming up with ideas to solve health issues. Cultural practices, among other innovative and adaptive approaches in handling patient welfare, assist in the collaborative strategy to come up with a final solution. Successful healthcare organizations develop following proper collaborative approaches to meet their target. Collaborative patient-care teams focus on the healthcare reforms both inside and outside clinical environments to assist patients in developing their healthy lives (Browning, Torain, & Patterson, 2015). Leadership development strategies have the benefit when collaboration from other leaders provides the ideas to promote the results of research done from management of different information sources. Leadership practices involving doctors and nurses in finding the solutions of the proposed arguments in the aim to find a proper solution. Besides, creating a good learning environment help nurses work out the solutions to a patient issue and for a collaborative problem-solving environment for all.

Strengths (from the client's perspective) when providing inter-professional care

Patient health depends on the strong influenced by inter-professional team functioning and collaborative goal setting. From the client perspectives, handling a health issue with proper identification of the background causes of the illness makes it easier to solve the health problem in the target community. Doing surveys in the fields of interest helps the patients to describe their issues and health concerns allowing the research departments to come up with solutions for the problem at hand (Rehabil, 2016). For instance, in a study involving a stroke analysis, inter-professional approaches to find a treatment solution took place under research done by nursing professionals. The research involved collecting data from patients with the disease to come up with targeted results in experimental health solutions. It was found out that the challenges faced by the patients required good rehabilitation approaches to solve the problem.

According to clients, individual treatment based on long-term and short-term consequences should involve the preparations of adequate measures to prevent further complications. In focusing on the welfare of the patients, medical treatment should start from stopping the spreading of a disease to terminating it through proper medication (Rehabil, 2016). For psychologically affected patients, it is the duty of the nursing professionals in collaboration with the psychological specialists to find a solution for the problem. During the assessment of the psychologically affected patients, counseling and medical prescriptions should follow to help in resolving the mental problems. Solving issues through constant comparative methods is another way of having assessed problems solved. Expectations of the clients involve provision of healthcare services closer to their residence. In an attempt to solve the issue, the departments involved in community health should collaborate with others to make sure that every issue is handled appropriately. In addition, the patients expect solutions to health problems affecting them in general as a society, which raises the alarm to the healthcare departments to improve healthcare facilities and services.

Challenges (from the health care professional's perspective) when providing inter-professional care

According to health care professionals' perspectives, the challenges they face begins from personal differences in the field. Starting from the inequity in power, some of the sub-ordinates face challenges in coming up with ideas that can help them improve on the services they provide. Unequal distribution of power may lead to poor concentration of those involved in healthcare practices leading to failure in their activities. Differences in knowledge bases, professionalism, and professional cultures also affect how healthcare specialists conduct their activities in the aim of providing their services to the members of the public. Besides, use of poor researching and working environments may limit higher chances of coming up with research results to complete the study (Int J Integr Care, 2016). For example, some of the departments involved in assisting healthcare specialists in performing their tasks may not give them an opportunity work freely and source their information from the targeted sources making their task hard. It may involve limitation of resources and help from other collaborative agencies to assist in the activity. However, most of the challenges facing healthcare professionals include issues from their managerial backgrounds.

From your perspective, what would be the recommendations on how nurses can incorporate inter-professional care competencies in their nursing practice when providing care to their clients/residents and patients?

According to personal views on how nurses can incorporate inter-professional core competencies, it is through creating professional relations with their partners to come up with a common goal. Following the procedures in their researches and doing some interviews may also provide a chance to work without lacking data for assessment. Deciding on what is the relevant point of interest is another approach in which the experts can use to monitor their progress. In addition, serving with integrity and promoting hygiene in working places would assist in creating a favourable working environment to serve their purpose. Doing the study and connecting the relationship of the study to the teachings can assist in processing the main ideas to come up with a common solution from all collaborating professionals. The overall aim of the nursing professionals is to ensure that they can do some exploration of how challenges they face in collaboration can affect their clinical works. When dealing with clients, keeping records of the past patients can help in solving another related problem. However, the main goal of nursing practices is to serve the community. It means that they should focus first on the measures that would benefit the patients first.

Conclusion

To sum up, there are things that nursing professionals should do to improve the health of patients.  It is important for the collaboration to occur in the aim to solve healthcare issues presented by clients. For researchers, it is important to use all the available resources to promote research activities. Leadership also plays an important role in maintaining the standards of healthcare standards. In the process of making changes in the healthcare departments, most of the leaders in the system should make sure that they include the strategies that will assist in coordinating cooperation with other professionals. In the health departments, some of the things that include managing the specialists allow them to handle their activities without facing many issues. The supportive departments should ensure that they use the available resources to promote healthcare activities. It is the obligation of the leaders to make sure that everything takes place in the best ways. Therefore, it is important to make use of the ideas from all members to come up with a final decision.

 

References

Browning, H. W., Torain, D. J., & Patterson, T. E. (2015). Collaborative Healthcare Leadership. A Six-Part Model for Adapting and Thriving during a Time of Transformative Change. Retrieved from https://www.ccl.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/CollaborativeHealthcareLeadership.pdf

Int J Integr Care. (2016). Challenges in Achieving Collaboration in Clinical Practice. The Case of Norwegian Health Care. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5351059/

Paediatr, S. J. (2014). Working as a team to improve patient care. Health care professional development. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4949805/

Rehabil, D. (2016). The client-centred approach, as experienced by male neurological rehabilitation clients in occupational therapy. A qualitative study based on a grounded theory tradition. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26853475

Vega, C. P., & Bernard, A. (2916). Inter-professional Communication. How Can It Improve Healthcare?. Retrieved from https://www.medscape.org/viewarticle/857824