At clinical I experienced a situation which reminded me of an ethical concern in which poor communication existed among health care professionals. One of the other student nurses in my group told me that her nurses was not listening to what she was saying. The student nurse informed me she told the nurse that the patient’s pulse ox was 82 and the nurse did not address the concern. She said the nurse was looking at her, but started talking to the doctor who just walked in the room. A couple minutes later the nurse asked the student if she took the pulse ox. Even though this was a minor issue regarding miscommunication, the incident still needed to be talked about because the nurse was not listening or noting importance. A pulse ox that low needed to be taken into consideration. The communication error pertains to the importance of interprofessional collaboration in healthcare.
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Rather, the decisions are meant to be made together as a team to obtain insight from other point of views and beliefs. More so, nurses are there to communicate with each other. That is why members of the team, like aids and students are important. Engel (2013) confirms, “What moves interprofessional beyond multidisciplinary is a much greater intent to have professionals engage in interaction with one another and for decision-making to be shared, rather than to be an autonomous activity, as in multidisciplinary care” (p. 431). All types of nurses work as a team. If there is a safety issues for example; it is the aid’s responsibility to have good observational skills and to tell the nurse. It is also important for the nurse to use observational skills to see if there is something wrong with the patient that may have been missed earlier by another healthcare professional. The types of nurses are going to have different scopes of practice, but they need to be willing to communicate with each
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Rather, the decisions are meant to be made together as a team to obtain insight from other point of views and beliefs. More so, nurses are there to communicate with each other. That is why members of the team, like aids and students are important. Engel (2013) confirms, “What moves interprofessional beyond multidisciplinary is a much greater intent to have professionals engage in interaction with one another and for decision-making to be shared, rather than to be an autonomous activity, as in multidisciplinary care” (p. 431). All types of nurses work as a team. If there is a safety issues for example; it is the aid’s responsibility to have good observational skills and to tell the nurse. It is also important for the nurse to use observational skills to see if there is something wrong with the patient that may have been missed earlier by another healthcare professional. The types of nurses are going to have different scopes of practice, but they need to be willing to communicate with each