Describe what value you see in interprofessional education and collaborative practice in healthcare. (182) Interprofessional education (IPE) provides several benefits. Through the experience, students will learn not only about their own profession, but also other professions as well and learn about how their specialties bring to the table to assist patients. The result is professionals who act on the same level and understand how the others think and work. When providers collaborate, they can bring diverse areas of knowledge and expertise together to provide the best diagnosis and treatment for the patient. Collaboration through IPE also increases communication between the various types of healthcare professionals. The program helps students
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Compassion is easier because the person does not have to know what it feels like to have sorrow or want to alleviate suffering. For example, to emphasize with someone who has cancer without personal experience it is similar to saying that you know what it is like to be president. You can imagine the difficulty of president but you cannot truly know unless you are actually sitting in the oval office. However, you can have compassion on that person. As a person who has a chronic illness and is also involved with the disability and chronically ill community, I know what it is like to experience suffering and can truly emphasize with the sick. The reason I went into the medical field was because I want to be able to take the things I learn from my condition and bring empathy and compassion into the healthcare field. When people are feeling sick, sometimes the best medicine will not solve the problem, yet empathy makes the whole situation just a little bit better. In healthcare, compassion must be a daily part of life as we ought to see people’s pain and moved to help alleviate their suffering. I have personally seen the difference in effectiveness of providers who do not have compassion. A provider can have the greatest knowledge in the world but if they are condescending or show disregard for a condition then the patient will probably not continue with the provider. Even if the patient does continue to see the provider, they are less likely to be honest about their condition or medication adherence, causing harm to
Compassion is easier because the person does not have to know what it feels like to have sorrow or want to alleviate suffering. For example, to emphasize with someone who has cancer without personal experience it is similar to saying that you know what it is like to be president. You can imagine the difficulty of president but you cannot truly know unless you are actually sitting in the oval office. However, you can have compassion on that person. As a person who has a chronic illness and is also involved with the disability and chronically ill community, I know what it is like to experience suffering and can truly emphasize with the sick. The reason I went into the medical field was because I want to be able to take the things I learn from my condition and bring empathy and compassion into the healthcare field. When people are feeling sick, sometimes the best medicine will not solve the problem, yet empathy makes the whole situation just a little bit better. In healthcare, compassion must be a daily part of life as we ought to see people’s pain and moved to help alleviate their suffering. I have personally seen the difference in effectiveness of providers who do not have compassion. A provider can have the greatest knowledge in the world but if they are condescending or show disregard for a condition then the patient will probably not continue with the provider. Even if the patient does continue to see the provider, they are less likely to be honest about their condition or medication adherence, causing harm to