Introduction
The vast changes in modern and complex health care settings lead to face several challenges by nursing leadership (Reinhard & Hassmiller, 2012). To acquire dynamic roles the nurse leaders need more skills of management to carry out their professional performances. These nurse leaders are also responsible to provide a vision which will motivate the junior staffs and other employees that may help in survival of health care organizations and can achieve high potentials and increased quality in patient care (Spencer et al. 2009). Working in trans-cultural health are requires more skills and effectual communication among all departments and sectors in health care.
The objective of this paper is to identify the problems in multi disciplinary team approach from different sectors of health care, which will ensure quality care, and to implement strategies to increase the potentials of teamwork. This paper will also address changes in leadership strategies and enhance the potentials of nursing practice. All these require increased professionalism, technical competence, interpersonal skillfulness, effective communication and commitments to work in a team (Moss & Bamford-Wade, 2010). There have been derivation of important factors from the works of various eminent authors and experts specialized in this field of study.
Multi disciplinary team approach in nursing
Today’ nursing needs a multi disciplinary team approach where there is necessity of total teamwork, which governs patient satisfaction (Marshall, 2010). This requires applying finest quality of each member’s skills, knowledge and expertise, using of more improved technologies, to ensure faultless are and must be patient centered. Nursing plays an important role in the multi disciplinary team approach in patient care (Huber, 2014). Any nurse who is responsible for the care of any serious patient needs some special preparations to meet the needs during the critical phase of treatment. (Gross & Azaare, 2011). The critical nurses or the surgical nurses, come into the picture where there is requirement of surgery. They act as a key links in communication network in between the multi disciplinary teams. Though a nurse is only a single member in the team, the nurse’s role is vital to achieve success in treatment and patient care (Dorgham & Al-Mahmoud, 2013).
Health care teams and team collaboration
Working in a team in health care settings provides various benefits to health care (Burke & McLaughlin, 2013). This accounts not only for the patients, but also for individual health professionals and the health care providers. Good communication, effective decision making, skills to solve problems, networking, brainstorming are the fundamentals, which will be able to deliver efficient and quality care. The statement that sum is greater than parts is applicable in all health care teams (Bellot, 2011). Here each team member has to contribute his or her skills to the team and as whole to the client or the patient where there is not just medical diagnosis, or any disability in isolation. The team has to meet on regular basis to ensure treatment planning, which will help in promoting effective communication among team members for the continuation of care. This will also help in generating solutions or strategies, which will increase in client’s activity, participation, and functioning of family members (Cooper, 2009). In multi disciplinary teams, assessment findings and the objectives are sometimes specific to individual discipline, where the effectiveness of the team is the total sum of each individual efforts. The team has to identify individual goals, which are not in conflict with each other. Each discipline has to work to achieve the objectives, within the scope of their practices. If the boundaries within a team overlap, the team members have to coordinate and solve the problems together (McKenzie & Manley, 2011).
Trans disciplinary team
In such teams, one of the team members is regarded as the case manager, where the other team members have to contribute through instructions of the case manager (Purnell & Paulanka, 2008). This approach requires that all team members must have a good understanding and some amount of training in additional disciplines. In this approach, one team member is regarded to be responsible to have the objectives irrespective of their disciplines. Several team members may sometimes treat a single patient, but their roles may overlap or extend between different health care professionals (Barnard, 2010).
Challenge in incorporation of trans-disciplinary teams
- Care coordination among disciplines in acute care settings
- Creating a new partnership
- The payment models governing insurance plans
Information demonstrating gravity of the issue or problem
The above studies try to demonstrate the impact of the issue, that a multi disciplinary approach in health care can only bring quality are and patient satisfaction (Martin et al. 2010). This ensures enhancement in individual accountability, which will help in increasing responsibility among each team member. This also requires innovation in –patient care and increasing the role of nurses, detection of unnecessary complications and implanting of risk assessments.
Morbidity, mortality, occurrence in general population
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