W5-Collaboration and Teamwork

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PATIENT EDUCATION COMMITTEE 5

Collaborative Teamwork: Patient Education Committee

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Collaboration and Teamwork: Patient Education Committee

Patient Education Committee is a group that was formed by the American College of Surgeons (ACS) to promote the quality of patient care (Patient Education Committee, 2021). Additionally, the committee has the mandate to educate the surgeons on how to ensure the safety of patients is maintained. Also, the idea was to recognize patients as critical stakeholders of the surgical committee. Besides, the group serves to educate patients to become enlightened on operations performed on them, offer counseling services to help them make informed decisions, teach them essential skills that will help them participate in the surgical process, and aid in handling postoperative care.

Goals of the Group

Patient Education Committee has various goals aimed at addressing the patients` needs, and they include:

i. Form and analyze resources that are used in educating patients. This may exist in various formats to ensure the patients receive evidence-based training to aid them in decision-making. Besides, the group serves to enlighten the patients with the skill-sets that are important in postoperative care.

ii. Carry out research on practical, cost-effective methods of training that are simple for the patients to understand the concept. Besides, the group ensures the surgical team is compliant with all regulatory standards, such as informed consent.

iii. In collaboration with all other stakeholders, the group ensures all the training settings have enough patient education resources for patient safety and participation.

iv. To embrace patient education as a tool for ensuring the patients are active members of the surgical team. Through this, patients are offered quality care in line with the surgical guidelines.

v. To perform research on various innovative methods of implementing patient education care.

Mission

The mission of the Patient Education Committee is to embrace quality, maintain the highest standards and achieve better results.

Membership

Patient Education Committee has a total of 82000 members (Patient Education Committee, 2021). There are various membership categories that one can choose, and they include; Fellow which requires a minimum of one year period of practice, international fellow, which needs three years, of course, the associate fellow who needs at least six years of practice, resident who is currently undergoing training on one of the 13 surgical practices, medical students and affiliates.

Role of Nursing Leadership Promoting Effective Communication

Nursing leadership is essential in the Patient Education Committee as it offers a constructive climate where members feel supported (Northouse, 2014). Through Patient Education resources, the surgical team it easy to perform surgery on the patients. Diversity and inclusion is another critical area that serves to promote the success of Patient Education Committee. By bringing together people from different traditional backgrounds with other approaches, the group will have diverse approaches. Besides, communication is an integral part of solving disputes in organizations and groups. The team leader of the Patient Education Committee applies effective communication to solve the conflicts within the group (Cope & Murray, 2017). Similarly, good leaders tend to listen to all members of the group. In the event leader fails to listen to some group members, they feel unwanted and may underperform.

References

Cope, V., & Murray, M. (2017). Leadership styles in nursing. Nursing Standard, 31(43).

Northouse, P. G. (2014). Introduction to leadership: Concepts and practice. Sage.

Patient Education Committee. (2021). Retrieved 1 June 2021, from https://www.facs.org/about-acs/governance/acs-committees/patient-education-committee