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Reference: Family Practice, 17 (1), 123

Inter-professional collaboration helps reduce errors and improve patient care by allowing the entire healthcare team to discuss patients together. When all members can agree on a treatment plan while sharing information, it decreases mistakes and increases safety. These team meetings are becoming more common as a way to continuously deliver higher quality care through transformed nursing education and inter-professional skills like leadership. Electronic health records also incorporate an interdisciplinary approach to care by allowing different providers like nurses and doctors to securely access and input a patient's information, aiding in diagnosis and reducing errors to improve outcomes.

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Reference: Family Practice, 17 (1), 123

Inter-professional collaboration helps reduce errors and improve patient care by allowing the entire healthcare team to discuss patients together. When all members can agree on a treatment plan while sharing information, it decreases mistakes and increases safety. These team meetings are becoming more common as a way to continuously deliver higher quality care through transformed nursing education and inter-professional skills like leadership. Electronic health records also incorporate an interdisciplinary approach to care by allowing different providers like nurses and doctors to securely access and input a patient's information, aiding in diagnosis and reducing errors to improve outcomes.

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DQ 1

Inter-professional collaboration helps to reduce errors in patient care because each

member of the patients care team is able to be in the same place at the same time and discuss

patient care (Fleischmann et al., 2016). This eliminates the "he said, she said" passing of

information in the health care setting. Higher quality of care is able to be delivered when the

entire health care team is able to agree on the course of action to be taken for the patient. This

also helps to decrease errors and increase safety for the patient due to the fact that all information

is being discussed at the same time instead of being passed around. These types of care team

meetings are an emerging trend that will help to increase the quality of care provided to patients

in healthcare facilities. Transformation of nursing education is one of the areas where inter-

professional collaboration will be required. The area of health care is transforming rapidly

especially in terms of what is taught to nursing students (Whitney, 2020). Inter-professional

collaboration is vital as nurses are required to also learn new qualities such as leadership and

they are expected to display their skills while in the workplace. Leadership qualities are vital in

the development of inter professional collaboration as everyone is expected to have some input

within the healthcare setting.

Reference

Fleischmann, N., Tetzlaff, B., Werle, J., Geister, C., Scherer, M., Weyerer, S., ... & Mueller,

C. A. (2016). Interprofessional collaboration in nursing homes (interprof): a grounded theory

study of general practitioner experiences and strategies to perform nursing home visits. BMC

family practice, 17(1), 123.


Whitney, S. (2020). Trends in Health Care: A Nursing Perspective. Retrieved 14 March

2020, from https://lc.gcumedia.com/nrs440vn/trends-in-health-care-a-nursing-

perspective/v1.1/#/chapter/1

DQ 2

The application of Electronic health records is an innovative healthcare delivery model

that incorporates an inter-disciplinary care delivery team. EHRs are useful forms of technology

that deals with information and data that is collected in a particular healthcare organization.

EHRs ensure that critical information is available instantly and securely to users that are

authorized. EHRs are also models that are put in place to go beyond the standard provisions of

care and are supposed to include broader views of patient’s care. EHRs technology tends to

incorporate different disciplines in the healthcare system (Haas, 2011). It will incorporate the

input provided by nurses, doctors, pharmacists, and all of them are able to provide quality care to

patients. All patients collected by these disciplines is useful in the determination of the best type

of care for a particular patient. Electronic records improve the ability of a healthcare setting to

diagnose diseases. EHR records are also able to reduce and prevent medical errors and all that

improves patient’s outcomes (Haas, 2011).

Reference

Haas, S. (2011). Health Care Reform Act: new models of care and delivery

systems. AAACN, 33(2), 1H2.

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