Main discussion

Instructions:

Read two of your colleagues’ postings from the Discussion question.

Respond with a comment that asks for clarification, provides support for, or contributes additional information to two of your colleagues.

Csilla Orban Bonacci

Collaboration and teamwork are ingredients needed to offer safe patient care.

Before a patient gets discharged professionals of different disciplines often get together to discuss the plan of care, interventions, progress, and outcome of the patient’s plan of care.

A good team runs like a well-oiled machine

     It takes  respect towards your profession and other team members for a patient to have the best outcome once discharged.

As a student, I laughed at the first video because it looks silly how distracted almost everyone seems to be. Playing with your own hair, looking at your phone, passing on the responsibility to someone else, picking at your nails, zoning out, etc. all show little interest in the patient’s care and a lack of respect towards one another. They do not look like professionals. They do not respect one another while talking. They are not active listeners.

They also do not respect the patient. In the first video, the nurse mocks the patient for talking so much about gardening. In the second video, the nurse treats the patient’s interest with respect and makes it a point to consider it important himself.

 

Professionals take  responsibility for their patient’s safety and care until discharged. Taking responsibility to talk to the patient is something I see in the second video compared to the first one where it seems that some members state that someone else should talk to the patient.

As a nurse, if I were on that team, I would feel little confidence in my team. I would wonder if they did their best for this patient. Almost everyone seems so distracted in the first video.

If I were to compare the first video to the second based on communication styles, the first video seems to lack organization, flow, and respect toward one’s profession and role in patient care. The second video is just the opposite. Everyone is involved and contributes their part to the bettering of this patient. Everyone is united, organized, up to date with everything, and present during that meeting. In the second video, it clearly shows the patient has much better support and a chance of having a successful recovery, compared to the way things are managed by the team in the first video.