NUR 204 - Interdisciplinary Team and Collaboration (Week 11)

Interdisiplinary teams

Groups (two or mroe) of caring professionals and experts from different fields

Brings specialty knowledgefrom diverse health persepctives

Complexity requires collaboration ofr poisitivie clinical outcomes

Interdisciplinary trams work smoothly, logically, consistently, and harmoniously

Strong interdisciplinary teamwork has been shown to imporve patient care quality and support continous qualtuy improvement, which enhances overall helath outcoems

Competencies

Training and critical thinking activities designed to ensure that lal nursing staff and specialty atreas remain current with evidence-based practices and the latest standards of care

Team communication bonuses

Reducing errors - interdisciplinary tema commuoication and medical errors reduction

Reducing inequities - speak up in interdisicplinary rounds

Patient advocacy - giving voice to patietns needs

Communication in Nursing

The nurse communicates with all team members

Communication needs to be strong, clear, precise, interrogative, infroamtive

Quality of nursing communication influences patient’s health outcomes

Patient teaching

Patients may present with limitations, disabilite,s language differences or diverse learning styles

Clear communication is neeedde for teaching health restoration and illness prevention

patients need to learn how to - ask for immediate assistance, implement skills and self-care tasks, determine when to seek help after discharge

Four C’s of communication

Concise, clear, correct, complete

They work well as a nurs eplans for patient care, assessments, teaching, adn discharge planning

Cultural influences

Nurses have the rich experience of working with culutrally diverse patients and their families

Effective commiunication starts with an assessment of preferences for communication

Always ask who should be present as culture influences family group processes

types of communication

Verbal, nonverbal, sign language, electronic, graphic, written, musical, hapatic (human touch)

Characteristics of poor communication

mistrust, dissapointment, anger, lack of use of goal-oriented discussion adn nursing process, can include the environemt, and overall it leads to errors

ISBAR - communication tool

Introduction, Situation, Background, Assessment, Reccomendations

SBARR - communication tool

Siotuation, background, assessment, recommendatins, read abck

IPASS - ocmmunication tool

Illness severtiy, patient information,a ction list, situational awareness and conitigency plans, and synthesis by reciever

CUS - communication tool

I have a concern, I am uncomfortable with what I am seeing, hearing, or findings

Motivational interviewing

When a patient is particualrly reisstant to change behaviors towards healthier lifestyke, the technique of moticatiion interviewing helps a patient identify, best understnad, and finally overcome barriers to change

Includes - a set of techniques to elicit change, a type of interpersonal interaction that promotes a sense of readiness, and avenue to resolve ambivalence, a means to identify and mobilize goals, effective method of guidance

Communiating during emergencies

Staying calm and turning on one;s high-level assessments and communicatin techniques highly imrpove outcomes and save lives