Health isn’t just one person’s responsibility, it’s everybody’s responsibility; individuals, community members, professionals, businesses, families, public services. Health is not just about the prevention and cure of disease anymore, it is the wellbeing of all. Everyone has their own role to play but effective healthcare and improvement consists of multidisciplinary professions brought together to not only lengthen the scope of practice but to provide the best possible care for the patient at hand. Inter-professional communication is an intervention in which the members of multiple health or social health care professions collaboratively work together through the process of communication and decision making with patients, families, carers
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Elements of collaborative practice not only include good communication across each discipline but also reside on responsibility, accountability, coordination, cooperation, assertiveness, autonomy and mutual trust and respect (Morrison, 2013). Rao (2011) stated “Collaborative interactions exhibit a blending of professional cultures and are achieved though sharing skills and knowledge to improve the quality of patient care”. This approach supports the collaborative team making decisions that healthcare professions require to maintain and uphold the health, wellbeing and social issues presented in the patient. This collaborative approach also allows for a wider scope of practice with the involvement of specialists while still ensuring that the patient is obtaining optimal healthcare goals designed for their individual needs. Shared responsibility without effective communication or high-quality team work healthcare professionals cannot provide qualitative care and this can result to immediate risks for the patient (O’Daniel, 2012). Thus, Interprofessional collaborative group approach in handling a patient is a shared responsibility and for this reason requires input and cooperative teamwork from the multiple healthcare disciplines within our
Elements of collaborative practice not only include good communication across each discipline but also reside on responsibility, accountability, coordination, cooperation, assertiveness, autonomy and mutual trust and respect (Morrison, 2013). Rao (2011) stated “Collaborative interactions exhibit a blending of professional cultures and are achieved though sharing skills and knowledge to improve the quality of patient care”. This approach supports the collaborative team making decisions that healthcare professions require to maintain and uphold the health, wellbeing and social issues presented in the patient. This collaborative approach also allows for a wider scope of practice with the involvement of specialists while still ensuring that the patient is obtaining optimal healthcare goals designed for their individual needs. Shared responsibility without effective communication or high-quality team work healthcare professionals cannot provide qualitative care and this can result to immediate risks for the patient (O’Daniel, 2012). Thus, Interprofessional collaborative group approach in handling a patient is a shared responsibility and for this reason requires input and cooperative teamwork from the multiple healthcare disciplines within our