This assignment will concentrate on Inter-professional working in health and care setting. It will also discuss the issues that create barriers to inter-professional working. It will also look at different professionals and how they collaborate with each other.
The World Health Organization observed that if health professionals were educated together in a multi-professional setting and figured out how to work together as a group during their study years, they were much more liable to work successfully together in their professional lives in a clinical setting (WHO, 2010). Inter-professional learning was conceived to help students from different professions to learn from each other to enable effective collaboration and to improve health outcomes. …show more content…
For example, General Practitioner (GP), Pharmacist, Social Worker (SW), Physiotherapist. Patients frequently have conditions that have multiple causes and require multiple treatments from a range of health professions with different expertise and skills (Reeves et al., 2010).
A Physiotherapist is an integral member of an inter-professional collaborative model of care. Physiotherapists help patient who has been affected by illness or injury. They help a patient to prevent disease as well as maintaining health for people of all age, a physiotherapist does not only promote movement they also offer advice on repositioning, posture and body alignment. (Peate et al., 2014). Having a Physiotherapy on site allows patients to receive treatment quicker. This reduces the impact of illness on patient’s quality of life and will help to minimize lifestyle related …show more content…
It is also important to show respect for the autonomy, dignity and privacy. When the two professionals work together they demonstrate a duty of care and act in the best interest of the patient at all times. Gaining consent before any care treatment is essential before any procedure
In conclusion as a student nurse I will be in charge for my role and work in the health care setting. It is important to maintain my actions and be responsible for my own commitment towards the group. In addition to this I have understood the important of communication skills to improve patient care, as well as working in a team as it can benefit patients when different professional work together. In order to work as team one needs to value their own role as part of a multi- professional team, to be able to make
The World Health Organization observed that if health professionals were educated together in a multi-professional setting and figured out how to work together as a group during their study years, they were much more liable to work successfully together in their professional lives in a clinical setting (WHO, 2010). Inter-professional learning was conceived to help students from different professions to learn from each other to enable effective collaboration and to improve health outcomes. …show more content…
For example, General Practitioner (GP), Pharmacist, Social Worker (SW), Physiotherapist. Patients frequently have conditions that have multiple causes and require multiple treatments from a range of health professions with different expertise and skills (Reeves et al., 2010).
A Physiotherapist is an integral member of an inter-professional collaborative model of care. Physiotherapists help patient who has been affected by illness or injury. They help a patient to prevent disease as well as maintaining health for people of all age, a physiotherapist does not only promote movement they also offer advice on repositioning, posture and body alignment. (Peate et al., 2014). Having a Physiotherapy on site allows patients to receive treatment quicker. This reduces the impact of illness on patient’s quality of life and will help to minimize lifestyle related …show more content…
It is also important to show respect for the autonomy, dignity and privacy. When the two professionals work together they demonstrate a duty of care and act in the best interest of the patient at all times. Gaining consent before any care treatment is essential before any procedure
In conclusion as a student nurse I will be in charge for my role and work in the health care setting. It is important to maintain my actions and be responsible for my own commitment towards the group. In addition to this I have understood the important of communication skills to improve patient care, as well as working in a team as it can benefit patients when different professional work together. In order to work as team one needs to value their own role as part of a multi- professional team, to be able to make