scholarly journals Interprofessional Care and Role of Team Leaders

2015 ◽  
Vol 53 (197) ◽  
pp. 70-74
Author(s):  
Bachchu Kailash Kaini
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Health Service Delivery ◽  
Care Team ◽  
Team Leaders ◽  
Health Care Organisation ◽  
Interprofessional Care ◽  
Care Organisation ◽  
Effective Delivery

Interprofessional care is an essential part of the health service delivery system. It helps to achieve improved care and to deliver the optimal and desired health outcomes by working together, sharing and learning skills. Health care organisation is a collective sum of many leaders and followers. Successful delivery of interprofessional care relies on the contribution of interprofessional care team leaders and health care professionals from all groups. The role of the interprofessional care team leader is vital to ensuring continuity and consistency of care and to mobilise and motivate health care professionals for the effective delivery of health services. Medical professionals usually lead interprofessional care teams. Interprofessional care leaders require various skills and competencies for the successful delivery of interprofessional care. Keywords: interprofessional care; team leaders; roles; competencies.

The potential for inadvertent adverse consequences of open disclosure in Australia: when good intentions cause further harm

2019 ◽  
Vol 59 (4) ◽  
pp. 265-274 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alice Holmes ◽  
Lyndal Bugeja ◽  
David Ranson ◽  
Debra Griffths ◽  
Joseph Elias Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
Care Providers ◽  
Health Care Organisation ◽  
Open Disclosure ◽  
Care Organisation ◽  
Family Expectations ◽  
Training And Support

Open disclosure is a valuable process which has the potential to benefit both the patients who receive the open disclosure and the health care professionals (or organisations) who provide it. The benefits from open disclosure will most often be seen when open disclosure is performed in an ‘ideal’ manner. When open disclosure is suboptimal, it can lead to harmful consequences for patients and health care providers alike. Numerous factors may contribute to an inadequate open disclosure including: potentially inadequate legal protection for health care professionals or organisations; failing to meet patient and/or family expectations; health care professionals experiencing a lack of education, training and support from the health care organisation; or a fear of litigation. An inadequate open disclosure may result in inadvertent consequences including: patients/families who are dissatisfied; potentially preventable litigation; legal repercussions for health care professionals and organisations; and patient harm where open disclosure is not implemented. This article seeks to explore these barriers and considers how the implementation of open disclosure could be improved to overcome these barriers. Overcoming these barriers should help to reduce the risk of inadvertent consequences and lead to better outcomes for patients, health care professionals and health care organisations.

scholarly journals Leaving early or staying on? Retirement preferences and motives among older health-care professionals

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-27
Author(s):  
Mikael Stattin ◽  
Carita Bengs
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Early Retirement ◽  
Work Motivation ◽  
Health Care Organisation ◽  
Work Related ◽  
Workplace Conditions ◽  
Care Organisation ◽  
Swedish Health Care

Abstract There is a need for improved knowledge about how workplace conditions and organisational factors may obstruct or facilitate work in late life. By means of both quantitative and qualitative data, this study aims to explore retirement preferences among employees (aged 55 and older) in a large Swedish health-care organisation and to identify work-related motives influencing their retirement preferences. The quantitative analysis showed large variation in retirement preferences in the organisation. The qualitative results were summarised into two overarching types of motives for late and early retirement preferences, general and group-specific. The general motives were shared by the early and late preference groups, and included recognition, flexibility, health and work motivation. The group-specific motives were exclusively related to either an early or a late retirement preference. Criticism towards the organisation and strenuous working conditions were specific motives for an early retirement preference, while positive accounts of work and a wish to utilise one's own competencies as well as being financially dependent on work was stated as specific motives for wanting to retire late. The results illustrate the need to improve organisational practices and routines, as well as working conditions, in order to make an extended working life accessible for more than already-privileged groups of employees.

scholarly journals The expected and actual communication of health care workers during the management of intrapartum: An interpretive multiple case study

2015 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Doreen K.M. M'Rithaa ◽  
Sue Fawcus ◽  
Mikko Korpela ◽  
Retha De la Harpe
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Multiple Case Study ◽  
Health Care Organisation ◽  
Critical Information ◽  
Levels Of Care ◽  
Care Organisation ◽  
Multiple Case

Background: Daily activities within a health care organisation are mediated by information communication processes (ICP) involving multiple health care professionals at different levels of care. Effective perinatal management requires critical information to be accurately communicated. If there is a breakdown in this communication patient safety is at risk for various reasons such as: inadequate critical information, misconception of information and uninformed decisions being made. The purpose of this study was to interpret the complexities around ICP in order to contribute to the effective management of the intrapartum period.Methods: Multi method, multiple case study approach was used to understand the ICP during the management of the intrapartum period. During the study, the expected ICP, the actual ICP, the challenges involved and the desired ICP were analysed. Twenty-four in-depth interviews with skilled birth attendants (SBAs) employing observer-as-participant roles, field notes, and document review methods were utilised to gather the data. Thematic analysis was utilised to analyse the data using Atlas TI software.Results: The study revealed three subthemes which emerged from the expected ICP, whilst three others that emerged formed the theme actual ICP. The subthemes from the expected ICP included: accessibility of obstetric services, expected referral, recommended tools, expected communication and expected documentation. The theme actual ICP held threee merging subthemes: the handover processes, collaborative information seeking, information communicated and referral processes.Conclusion: This study showed that what was expected was not what was actually happening. The requirements of the policies and protocols need to be effectively implemented to improve practice building these into current biomedical guidelines.

Management for Primary Health Care

1996 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sally Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
Strategic Alliances ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Health Care Systems ◽  
Health Care Organisation ◽  
Care Organisation ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Care Systems

This paper is about the implementation of primary health care and particularly about the role of management in this approach to health care. Just as the organisation for primary health care has a very different 'look' from that of conventional health care systems so does its management. One of the reasons for this is the strong commitment in primary health care to community participation which grounds it solidly in the people whose health is at stake. Best practice in management for primary health care is about shared management, strong organisation with shared meanings, and the making of strategic alliances. The discussion focuses on some of the skills needed by a primary health care manager, and the effective use of these skills for the primary health care organisation. There is no doubt that the role of the manager in the implementation and maintenance of primary health care is critical to achieving best practice in this approach to health care.

scholarly journals Nursing service management standards

2000 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 3-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marie Muller
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Service ◽  
Full Text ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Health Service Delivery ◽  
Health Care Organisation ◽  
Nursing Service ◽  
Care Organisation ◽  
Management Standards ◽  
Service Manager

The nursing service manager is responsible and accountable for quality nursing service management to facilitate optimal attainment of the goals/objectives and outcomes within the context and scope of health service delivery of the health care organisation. OpsommingDie verpleegdiensbestuur is verantwoordelik en aanspreeklik vir gehalte-verpleegdiensbestuur om optimale bereiking van doelwitte/doelstellings en uitkomste binne die konteks en omvang van gesondheidsdienslewering in ‘n gesondheidsdiens te fasiliteer. *Please note: This is a reduced version of the abstract. Please refer to PDF for full text.

Embodied Spatial Practices and the Power to Care

2019 ◽  
pp. 360-377
Author(s):  
Elise Paradis ◽  
Warren Mark Liew ◽  
Myles Leslie
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Critical Care ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Critical Care Units ◽  
Interprofessional Care ◽  
The Social

Drawing on an ethnographic study of teamwork in critical care units (CCUs), this chapter applies Henri Lefebvre’s ([1974] 1991) theoretical insights to an analysis of clinicians’ and patients’ embodied spatial practices. Lefebvre’s triadic framework of conceived, lived, and perceived spaces draws attention to the role of bodies in the production and negotiation of power relations among nurses, physicians, and patients within the CCU. Three ethnographic vignettes—“The Fight,” “The Parade,” and “The Plan”—explore how embodied spatial practices underlie the complexities of health care delivery, making visible the hidden narratives of conformity and resistance that characterize interprofessional care hierarchies. The social orderings of bodies in space are consequential: seeing them is the first step in redressing them.

Collective soul: The spirituality of an interdisciplinary palliative care team

2006 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
SHANE SINCLAIR ◽  
SHELLEY RAFFIN ◽  
JOSE PEREIRA ◽  
NANCY GUEBERT
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Palliative Care ◽  
Focus Groups ◽  
Health Care Professionals ◽  
Palliative Care Team ◽  
Care Team ◽  
Cancer Center ◽  
Team Members ◽  
Spiritual Journeys ◽  
Common Goals

Objective:Although spirituality as it relates to patients is gaining increasing attention, less is known about how health care professionals (HCP) experience spirituality personally or collectively in the workplace. This study explores the collective spirituality of an interdisciplinary palliative care team, by studying how individuals felt about their own spirituality, whether there was a shared sense of a team spirituality, how spirituality related to the care the team provided to patients and whether they felt that they provided spiritual care.Methods:A qualitative autoethnographic approach was used. The study was conducted in a 10-bed Tertiary Palliative Care Unit (TPCU) in a large acute-care referral hospital and cancer center. Interdisciplinary team members of the TPCU were invited to participate in one-to-one interviews and/or focus groups. Five interviews and three focus groups were conducted with a total of 20 participants.Results:Initially participants struggled to define spirituality. Concepts of spirituality relating to integrity, wholeness, meaning, and personal journeying emerged. For many, spirituality is inherently relational. Others acknowledged transcendence as an element of spirituality. Spirituality was described as being wrapped in caring and often manifests in small daily acts of kindness and of love, embedded within routine acts of caring. Palliative care served as a catalyst for team members' own spiritual journeys. For some participants, palliative care represented a spiritual calling. A collective spirituality stemming from common goals, values, and belonging surfaced.Significance of results:This was the first known study that focused specifically on the exploration of a collective spirituality. The culture of palliative care seems to foster spiritual reflection among health care professionals both as individuals and as a whole. While spirituality was difficult to describe, it was a shared experience often tangibly present in the provision of care on all levels.

Patient hospital experience and satisfaction on social media

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Subhajit Chakraborty ◽  
E. Mitchell Church
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Media ◽  
Patient Satisfaction ◽  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Negative Binomial ◽  
Negative Binomial Regression ◽  
Health Service Delivery ◽  
Health Care Team ◽  
Care Team ◽  
Content Type

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to show the value of open-ended narrative patient reviews on social media for elucidating aspects of hospital patient satisfaction. Design/methodology/approach Mixed methods analyses using qualitative (manual content analyses using grounded theory and algorithmic analyses using the Natural Language Toolkit) followed by quantitative analyses (negative binomial regression). Findings Health-care team communication, health-care team action orientation and patient hospital room environment are positively related to patient hospital satisfaction. Patients form their hospital satisfaction perceptions based on the three facets of their hospital stay experience. Research limitations/implications In the spirit of continuous quality improvement, periodically analyzing patient social media comments could help health-care teams understand the patient satisfaction inhibitors that they need to avoid to offer patient-centric care. Practical implications By periodically analyzing patient social media comments hospital leaders can quickly identify the gaps in their health service delivery and plug them, which could ultimately give the hospital a competitive advantage. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this is one of the first studies to apply mixed methods to patient hospital review comments given freely on social media to critically understand what drives patient hospital satisfaction ratings.

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