Interprofessional Collaboration Responses
(Interprofessional Collaboration Responses)
Interprofessional Collaboration Responses
DQ 1 Responses
Response K
Hello,
Thank you for the great post. You have adequately addressed the topic and indicated how interprofessional collaboration care quality and safety and helps reduce medical errors. Indeed, interprofessional collaboration involves team play between healthcare providers from different professional fields. Collaboration requires healthcare providers to assume complementary roles with interdisciplinary teams, cooperate, and share responsibilities to solve problems, make decisions, and develop and act on care plans for their patients (Busari et al., 2018). Research shows that interprofessional collaboration between doctors, nurses, and other team members enhances awareness of each other’s skills and knowledge, contributing to the quality of care and consistent improvement in decision-making. Collaboration demands respect and trust for a team to be effective and for every member to work together to accomplish the desired and shared goals and objectives (Ansa et al., 2020). The joint effort from multiple disciplines is imperative to improving care coordination and solving multiple patient health problems. Additionally, it is associated with care delivery effectiveness and provider job satisfaction. I agree that telehealth is a contemporary trend that will change the nature of interprofessional collaboration because providers will be able to work together without being physically in the same place. (Interprofessional Collaboration Responses)
References
Busari, J. O., Moll, F. M., & Duits, A. J. (2018). Understanding the impact of interprofessional collaboration on the quality of care: a case report from a small-scale resource limited health care environment. Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare, 10, 227–234. https://doi.org/10.2147/JMDH.S140042
Ansa, B. E., Zechariah, S., Gates, A. M., Johnson, S. W., Heboyan, V., & De Leo, G. (2020). Attitudes and Behavior towards Interprofessional Collaboration among Healthcare Professionals in a Large Academic Medical Center. Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland), 8(3), 323. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare8030323
Response S
Hello,
That you for the comprehensive and insightful discussion. You have accurately and thoroughly addressed or dimensions of the discussion topic. I concur that interprofessional collaboration involves a coming together of healthcare providers from different fields to deliver care and solve patient health problems. Indeed, interprofessional collaboration encourages team members to complement each and enhance care coordination, increasing the accuracy, effectiveness, and efficiency of care delivery and increasing the quality of care, reflected in reduced medical errors and increased patient safety. Interprofessional collaboration has providers constantly negotiating and interacting to contribute their value and expertise to address healthcare problems (Reeves et al., 2018). Improved interprofessional collaboration is integral to the delivery of effective and comprehensive care. Indeed telehealth requires interprofessional communication and collaboration, currently perceived as a standard professional practice (Ransdell et al., 2021). Interprofessional telehealth involves health-related services from different disciplines to ensure patients receive comprehensive and quality care to ensure patient safety and positive outcomes. (Interprofessional Collaboration Responses)
References
Ransdell, L. B., Greenberg, M. E., Isaki, E., Lee, A., Bettger, J. P., Hung, G., Gelatt, A., Lindstrom-Mette, A., & Cason, J. (2021). Best Practices for Building Interprofessional Telehealth: Report of a Conference. International journal of telerehabilitation, 13(2), e6434. https://doi.org/10.5195/ijt.2021.6434
Reeves, S., Pelone, F., Harrison, R., Goldman, J., & Zwarenstein, M. (2018). Interprofessional collaboration to improve professional practice and healthcare outcomes. The Cochrane database of systematic reviews, 6(6), CD000072. https://doi.org/10.1002/14651858.CD000072.pub3
DQ 2 Responses
Response Y
Hi,
Thank you for an informative and insightful discussion. You have comprehensively discussed the Pay-for-Performance model and how it adopts interdisciplinary care delivery to reduce errors and improve the quality of healthcare services. In this model, financial incentives or reimbursements are made based on fulfilling the agreed-upon performance targets (Anselmi et al., 2020). Its primary purpose is to improve healthcare delivery by using a financial aspect as the motivation. Pay-for-performance (P4P) also uses adherence to best practices as a measure of performance. Outcome measures also help assess performance (Kyeremanteng et al., 2019). There is a lack of an established direct link between interprofessional practice and the P4P model, but there is a direct correlation between interprofessional practice and performance (Kyeremanteng et al., 2019). Therefore, for a healthcare organization adopting this model to enhance performance, forming interdisciplinary teams is imperative. Providers work together to increase the quality of care, and patient safety, reduce errors and offer comprehensive care to increase financial rewards or incentives attached to the pre-set performance indicators. (Interprofessional Collaboration Responses)
References
Anselmi, L., Borghi, J., Brown, G. W., Fichera, E., Hanson, K., Kadungure, A., Kovacs, R., Kristensen, S. R., Singh, N. S., & Sutton, M. (2020). Pay for Performance: A Reflection on How a Global Perspective Could Enhance Policy and Research. International journal of health policy and management, 9(9), 365–369. https://doi.org/10.34172/ijhpm.2020.23
Kyeremanteng, K., Robidoux, R., D’Egidio, G., Fernando, S. M., & Neilipovitz, D. (2019). An Analysis of Pay-for-Performance Schemes and Their Potential Impacts on Health Systems and Outcomes for Patients. Critical care research and practice, 2019, 8943972. https://doi.org/10.1155/2019/8943972
Response S
Hi,
Your discussion addresses a current and innovative approach to healthcare delivery that I enjoyed learning. Indeed The CHECK healthcare delivery model was developed to enhance care coordination and delivery for chronically ill children (Caskey et al., 2019). It adopts expertise from multiple disciplines, including medicine, nursing, social services, and education, indicating the use of the interdisciplinary practice. The system comprehensively addresses social determinants of health, caregivers’ well-being and mental health needs, and disease management, focusing on specific diseases, including prematurity, seizure disorder, sickle cell disease, asthma, and diabetes. These conditions, particularly among children, are associated with increased healthcare costs linked to longer hospital stays or hospitalization, regular readmissions, and increased use of emergency services (Glassgow et al., 2017). The CHECK system uses interdisciplinary teams to ensure well-coordinated, comprehensive, and improved healthcare services. It connects various stakeholders, patients, and providers to improve the quality of care and reduce unnecessary hospitalizations, readmissions, and emergency services use. (Interprofessional Collaboration Responses)
References
Caskey, R., Moran, K., Touchette, D., Martin, M., Munoz, G., Kanabar, P., & Van Voorhees, B. (2019). Effect of comprehensive care coordination on medicaid expenditures compared with usual care among children and youth with chronic disease: a randomized clinical trial. JAMA network open, 2(10), e1912604-e1912604.
Glassgow, A. E., Martin, M. A., Caskey, R., Bansa, M., Gerges, M., Johnson, M., Marko, M., Perry-Bell, K., Risser, H. J., Smith, P. J., & Van Voorhees, B. (2017). An innovative health-care delivery model for children with medical complexity. Journal of child health care : for professionals working with children in the hospital and community, 21(3), 263–272. https://doi.org/10.1177/1367493517712063
Response R
Hello,
Thank you for an educative and insightful discussion. Registered nurses’ scope of practice still faces multiple limitations, such as the one you have mentioned, providing nutritional education. Nutrition care provision is critical in promoting healthy bodies and minds and reducing morbidity and mortality rates and medical costs (Mogre et al., 2018). Nurses are less prepared during their education to offer nutrition education and care, limiting their scope of practice. However, there are specialists like registered dietitians who offer nutrition education and can collaborate with nurses to ensure comprehensive nutrition care using a team-based care delivery model (Riverin et al., 2017). This model requires different professionals to offer their expertise in a collective effort to ensure the quality of care and optimal patient outcomes. (Interprofessional Collaboration Responses)
References
Mogre, V., Stevens, F. C. J., Aryee, P. A., Amalba, A., & Scherpbier, A. J. J. A. (2018). Why nutrition education is inadequate in the medical curriculum: a qualitative study of students’ perspectives on barriers and strategies. BMC medical education, 18(1), 26. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-018-1130-5
Riverin, B. D., Li, P., Naimi, A. I., & Strumpf, E. (2017). Team-based versus traditional primary care models and short-term outcomes after hospital discharge. CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l’Association medicale canadienne, 189(16), E585–E593. https://doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.160427
Response K
Hi,
I enjoyed reading your discussion for its clarity. You have discussed collaborative models of care delivery as integral to offering better patient care, safer nursing care, and achieving better patient outcomes. Collaborative care models are fundamental in addressing the increasing disparities affecting patient outcomes (Martin & Bryant, 2018). Interprofessionalism is embedded in collaborative care models, promoting relationship-building, communication, and collective effort in problem-solving (Sanchez, 2017). I agree that advanced practice registered nurses can be involved in health screening schools and other places, working closely with teachers and school nurses to promote health and prevent disease among school-going children. Interprofessional collaboration is required in such settings because teachers have a role to play. (Interprofessional Collaboration Responses)
References
Martin, R. L., & Bryant, J. A. (2018). Collaboration.
Sanchez K. (2017). Collaborative care in real-world settings: barriers and opportunities for sustainability. Patient preference and adherence, 11, 71–74. https://doi.org/10.2147/PPA.S120070
