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The document discusses enablers and barriers to effective interprofessional healthcare teams. It identifies role awareness, daily team meetings, and client-centered care as enablers. Time constraints, differing approaches to care, and power imbalances are identified as barriers.

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The document discusses enablers and barriers to effective interprofessional healthcare teams. It identifies role awareness, daily team meetings, and client-centered care as enablers. Time constraints, differing approaches to care, and power imbalances are identified as barriers.

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RNAO – BPG

Developing and Sustaining Interprofessional Health Care


https://rnao.ca/bpg/guidelines/interprofessional-team-work-healthcare

Reflection
1) Identify three effectives (enablers) when working in interprofessional care
team and provide a detail example of each
2) Identify three ineffective (barriers) when working in interprofessional care
team and provide a detail example of each

1. Three effectives (enablers) when working in interprofessional care teams


include role awareness, daily interdisciplinary team meetings, and client-
centered care. Role awareness is an enabler to interprofessional care as it
allows all members of a patient’s health care team to comprehend the
importance of other’s specific roles. By recognizing the boundaries in our
scope of practice, we can utilize interprofessional team members to teach
and inform patients. Daily interdisciplinary team meetings are effectors as
they provide an opportunity to update each other on current information and
the current state of the patient(s) under their care. This provides all members
an equal update on their patients, allowing them to communicate after
assessing the patient(s). Client-centered care creates the responsibility of
placing the patient’s needs and status above any issues and concerns with
co-workers or members of the health care team.

2. Three ineffective (barriers) when working in interprofessional care teams


include time constraints, different approaches to patient/client care, and
inequitable power relations. Time constraints are a barrier as nurses and
PSW’s tend to spend the most time with patients, while other professions
such as social workers and dieticians spend less time with patients.
Therefore, nurses may feel a stronger connection to the patients and have
more trusting relationships. Different approaches to patient/client care is a
barrier to care as this may lead to conflict within the healthcare team,
assumptions that one individual is right or wrong, and different timelines for
patient care. This is a conflict as interprofessional teams should all agree,
and place patient needs first. Compromise is needed to resolve this. Lastly,
inequitable power relations serve as a barrier because of needs of patients
and wants of those that cannot prescribe/place orders.

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