Its a bird, its a plane, its Roles and Responbilites ...
I monitor the patient, provide ongoing care, assess for changes in their condition, educate the patient, and communicate important findings to the healthcare team.
What is Registered Nurse (RN)?
A nurse needs to tell the physician that a patient's condition has suddenly changed. What communication tool could help organize the information?
What is SBAR?
This is the goal of healthcare teams when they work to prevent errors, injuries, and harm to patients.
What is patient safety?
This is important in healthcare because it brings together the knowledge and expertise of different healthcare professionals to provide safe, coordinated, and patient-centred care.
What is interprofessional collaboration?
A patient has several health and social needs that require input from more than one healthcare professional. What is this an example of?
What is complex care/complexity?
I assess medical conditions, help diagnose problems, develop treatment plans, and make clinical decisions with the healthcare team.
What is a Physician/Hospitalist?
During an emergency, a healthcare professional gives a clear instruction and the receiver repeats it back to confirm it was understood. What type of communication is this?
What is closed-loop communication?
This common patient safety concern can be reduced through proper assessment, mobility support, and environmental precautions.
What are falls?
What is one important benefit of having different healthcare professionals work together?
What is bringing different knowledge and perspectives to patient care?
A patient cannot safely return home because they do not have anyone available to help them. What is this?
What is a barrier to discharge?
I focus on medications. I assess for side effects, interactions, dosing concerns, medication safety, and whether the patient understands their medications.
What is Pharmacist?
A healthcare professional gives an important patient update but uses unclear and vague language. What should they do to make their communication more effective?
What is use clear, specific, and concise language?
A patient tells the RN they feel dizzy when standing. The RN tells the PT before the patient's mobility session. How can this help keep the patient safe?
What is helping prevent a fall?
A physician creates a patient's care plan without considering the patient's goals or recommendations from the other members of the healthcare team.
What is poor interprofessional collaboration?
A patient's health is affected by their housing, finances, family support, and access to resources. These factors are examples of what?
What are social determinants of health?
I assess mobility, strength, balance, and physical function. I help patients move safely, reduce fall risk, and improve their ability to function independently.
What is Physiotherapist (PT)?
A healthcare professional listens carefully while a colleague is speaking, asks questions to clarify the information, and makes sure they understand before responding. What communication skill is being demonstrated?
What is active listening?
DAILY DOUBLE
Your Med-Surg patient suddenly needs help with their airway. You grab the patient safety kit. What supplies should you find inside?
Yankauer
Suction device/catheter
Suction tubing
Oxygen mask
Nasal prongs (NP)
A healthcare team works best when each professional understands their own responsibilities and the responsibilities of the other team members. What is this called?
What is role clarity?
When looking at the complexity of a patient's care, what three main areas should an interprofessional team consider?
What are boundaries, perspectives, and interprofessional relationships?
I focus on the patient's life outside the hospital. I consider family support, housing, finances, community resources, and barriers that may affect the patient's ability to manage at home.
What is Social Worker?
A patient has experienced a change in their health status. Each member of the interprofessional healthcare team will receive different information about the patient. Work together to share your information and create an SBAR to communicate the patient's current situation.
What is SBAR?
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Each member of the interprofessional team has different information about the same patient. Share your information with your team and identify the main patient safety concern that the team needs to address.
What is the patient's risk of falling?
Charades time!!! Without speaking, your team must act out their assigned healthcare roles and use non-verbal communication to figure out who belongs beside whom. Then, line up in the correct order.
RN → Physician → Pharmacist → Physiotherapist → Social Worker
A patient is being considered for discharge. Each member of the interprofessional team has different information about the patient.
What is having no safe living situation / no safe discharge destination?