This document discusses organizational health and interdisciplinary care. It defines interdisciplinary care as different healthcare providers working together as a team towards shared treatment goals for patients. Key aspects of interdisciplinary care include clearly defining each provider's responsibilities, respect among team members, transparency in sharing patient information, and addressing challenges like time management and communication. An example is a trauma team treating a motor vehicle accident patient from different specialties. Evidence-based practice within this team approach considers data, resources, patient-centered goals, and preferences. Leadership, person-centered practice, teamwork, and communication are integral to successful interdisciplinary approaches.
2. Strategies for managing human and financial
resources
• Making use of Human Resources
• Focus on education and growth
• Always keep the customer in mind.
• Work on the quality services or products
• Employing the use of technology
3. How can the Interdisciplinary plan can be
Implemented
• Basically interdisciplinary plan requires a clear definition of each of the
provider’s responsibilities, respect among the group and transparency among
the different providers in the sharing of information about the patient.
• Research has shown that interdisciplinary approach is beneficial to both the
healthcare providers and the patients.
4. • Challenges facing Interdisciplinary Care include:
• Time management
• Communication skills
• Clear responsibilities
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6. Example of Interdisciplinary Team
• An interdisciplinary team comprises professionals from various disciplines
who work in collaboration to address a patient with multiple physical and
psychological needs.
• Interdisciplinary team is not just a group of experts implementing separate
treatments on a patient.
• They complement one another's expertise and actively coordinate to work
toward shared treatment goals.
7. • An example of an interdisciplinary team would be a trauma team treating a
patient after a motor vehicle accident.
• The surgeon, emergency room physician, nurses, therapists, lab specialists
and imaging specialists all work together for the shared goal of the patient's
treatment and recovery.
8. Implementing Evidence Based Practice within
an Interdisciplinary Team
• There are four important factors one has to consider.
1. Understanding the data.
2. Considering your resources.
3. Establishing patient-centered goals.
4. Identifying your preferences.
9. Evidence Based Interdisciplinary Plan
• An interdisciplinary approach relies on health professionals from
different disciplines, along with the patient, working collaboratively as
a team.
• The most effective teams share responsibilities and promote role
interdependence while respecting individual members' experience and
autonomy.
10. Elements integral to a successful
interdisciplinary approach
1. Leadership
2. Person-centred practice
3. Teamwork
4. Communication
11. Evidence-based criteria used to evaluate the
degree to which a project is successful in
achieving the improvement goal.
• Projects are analyzed on the basis of six key criteria:
a) Relevance
b) Coherence
c) Efficiency
d) Effectiveness
e) Sustainability
f) overarching developmental impact
13. References
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Strategies for managing human and financial resources will include allowing the employees to make use of technology, working on quality services or quality products. It addition to that it also allows the customer to always be kept in mind. The focus on education and the use of human resource will also be fully utilized.
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At their core, interdisciplinary care plans are detailed plans of care created by representatives from several medical disciplines or specialties, each focused on a specific patient’s condition, treatment goals, and methods for improving outcomes. As part of the care planning process, input from each provider must be taken into consideration and weighed against the benefits and risks to the patient. In many healthcare facilities, interdisciplinary rounds are an essential part of patient care planning. This highly structured, multidisciplinary process occurs either at the patient bedside or in a location that can accommodate representatives from the entire care team
Time management
Unstructured team meetings, either at the bedside or not, can severely hamper a team’s ability to create a care plan that maximizes patient outcomes. To be successful, interdisciplinary care plans must be created during meetings that occur at the same time and in the same place every day. Representatives from each discipline must be present in order to offer opinions and provide advice to other caregivers.
Communication skills
It’s important to keep in mind that each team member has their own unique set of skills and treatment goals for each patient based on varying degrees of education and experience. Interpersonal differences or variations in level of expertise can make it easy for one member of the group to try to override other members. If necessary, formal training in effective communication techniques that enhance interdisciplinary collaboration should be provided to all team members, regardless of their position within your organization.
Clear responsibilities
Successful implementation of interdisciplinary care plans requires clear definition of each provider’s responsibilities, respect among the group, and transparency among providers sharing information about a specific patient. It can be helpful to select a leader, like a clinical team facilitator, to help make multidisciplinary discussions productive
A picture showing interdisciplinary team
In devising a coordinated care plan, an interdisciplinary team might ask the following patient-centered questions to improve the quality of care:
What are the patient's symptoms and needs?
Who can address the patient's needs?
What interventions can lead to a good outcome?
What are the goals of each intervention?
An interdisciplinary team is not just a group of experts implementing separate treatments on a patient. They complement one another's expertise and actively coordinate to work toward shared treatment goals. An example of an interdisciplinary team would be a trauma team treating a patient after a motor vehicle accident.
Understand the data. While some evidence-based practices and treatments are applicable to multiple clinical contexts, in other instances, the data behind an evidence-based practice may not translate to your organization
Consider your resources. Similarly, every organization has different resources at their disposal, making it likely that leaders will need to modify evidence-based practices to fit the resources that are available to them, Luciano and colleagues write.
Establish patient-centered goals. When implementing a new evidence-based practice, health care leaders need to identify goals based on patient-centered outcomes, according to the Luciano and colleagues. "The goal of implementing an evidenced-based practice should not be the implementation itself," they write.
Identify your preferences. Finally, leaders should note that health care providers' personal preferences often determine whether an organization will adopt a new practice, according to Luciano and colleagues.
Evidence suggests that teams of people from different disciplines who work together can improve work processes and patient care outcomes. Multiple disciplines are invariably involved in solving complex patient problems, making knowledge sharing across the disciplines foundational to effective car
Leadership
Positive leadership and management give clear direction and vision for the team through:
Promoting an atmosphere of trust where contributions are valued and consensus is fostered.
Ensuring that the necessary resources, infrastructure and training are available, as well as a mix of skills, competencies and personalities amongst team members
Person-centred practice
Well-integrated and coordinated care that is based on the needs of the patient can contribute to reducing delays to provision of care and duplicating assessment.1
Involving the patient in all aspects of their care empowers them to speak up and contribute to decision-making.
Formulating shared standardised interdisciplinary care plans and records of care to contribute to holistic and comprehensive person-centred care.
Teamwork
An interdisciplinary approach relies on health professionals from different disciplines, along with the patient, working collaboratively as a team. The most effective teams share responsibilities and promote role interdependence while respecting individual members’ experience and autonomy.9
Ensure team members have clear goals, and an understanding of their shared roles and responsibilities within the team structure.5
Participate in joint assessment, diagnosis and goal setting.
Recognize the overlap in knowledge and expertise of staff from different disciplines.
Communication
Communication across disciplines, care providers and with the patient and their family/carers, is essential to setting the goals that most accurately reflect the person’s desires and needs.
Involve the patient’s GP or pharmacist to increase the success of the intervention.11
Communicate openly to encourage genuine collaboration. A breakdown of communications between health professionals is a common factor in hospital errors and adverse events
RELEVANCE
The extent to which the intervention objectives and design respond to beneficiaries , global, country, and partner/institution needs, policies, and priorities, and continue to do so if circumstances change.
Coherence
The compatibility of the intervention with other interventions in a country, sector or institution.
Efficiency
The extent to which the intervention delivers, or is likely to deliver, results in an economic and timely way.
Effectiveness
The extent to which the intervention achieved, or is expected to achieve, its objectives, and its results, including any differential results across groups.
Sustainability
The extent to which the net benefits of the intervention continue, or are likely to continue.
overarching developmental impact
The extent to which the intervention has generated or is expected to generate significant positive or negative, intended or unintended, higher-level effects.
A picture showing how projects are analyzed on the basis of key criteria
