One experience where I was part of an interdisciplinary team involved a trauma team focused on treating patients after a motor vehicle accident. The primary goal, in this case, was to work together with the primary aim of ensuring effectiveness and positive outcomes in the recovery of the patient. Some of the members of this interdisciplinary team include a surgeon, a lab specialist, an image specialist, a nurse, and an emergency room physician, all working together towards common goals and objectives that will promote treatment and recovery of the patient (Keshmiri, 2019).
The challenging characteristic in consideration to the population and the healthcare system has contributed significantly to a shift in an interdisciplinary team. The necessity of this interdisciplinary team can be focused on integrating different disciplines through team working to help improve experiences, treatments, and, most importantly, fast recovery of the patient. The interdisciplinary team, in this case, was important in ensuring the patient is provided with the best care while facilitating how medical facilities and individual functions (Walton et al. 2019).
The team collaborating in providing care for the patient is important as it helps in improving the impact of services offered to the patient through a combination of effective and reliable expertise in specific situations. It, therefore, ensure a patient receives the best care that will improve and fasten the recovery process. From this encounter, I learned that team collaboration makes the healthcare process and responsibilities easy and, most importantly, improves the quality of services being provided to patients. It helps to motivate team members to improve patients’ experiences and satisfaction while ensuring success. This case means team collaboration remains one of the most important factors of consideration and focus in any healthcare environment or institution (Giuliante et al. 2018).
References
Giuliante, M. M., Greenberg, S. A., McDonald, M. V., Squires, A., Moore, R., & Cortes, T. A. (2018). Geriatric Interdisciplinary Team Training 2.0: A collaborative team-based approach to delivering care. Journal of interprofessional care, 32(5), 629-633.
Keshmiri, F. (2019). Assessment of the interprofessional collaboration of healthcare team members: validation of Interprofessional Collaborator Assessment Rubric (ICAR) and pilot study. Journal of Military Medicine, 21(6), 647-656.
Walton, V., Hogden, A., Long, J. C., Johnson, J. K., & Greenfield, D. (2019). How do interprofessional healthcare teams perceive the benefits and challenges of interdisciplinary ward rounds. Journal of multidisciplinary healthcare, 12, 1023.
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