HNN120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Pain Management
HNN120
TEAM WORK
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What is the role of the nurse in a multi-disciplinary team?
- Autonomous and collaborative care of individuals
- Promotion of health
- Prevention of illness
- Care of the ill, disabled and dying
- Advocacy
- Promotion of safe environments
- Research
- Pain management
What characteristics would an ideal multi-disciplinary team have?
- Clear and regular communication
- Enabling separate and shared knowledge of different providers to enhance the care provided
- Role clarification
- Common goals
- Recognition of and respect for respective strengths and differences
- Equitable and effective decision making
What are the benefits in working in a multi-disciplinary team?
- Main benefit is that the patient receives a wide range of care
- Learning from each other, more career mobility
- Work better collaboratively
- Broader repertoires of knowledge and skills thereby increasing access to care
What are some challenges of working in a multi-disciplinary team?
- Unclear positions/roles/responsibilities
- Unclear goals/objectives
- Inadequate action plans
- Conflicting personalities
- People that dont want to be there
- Lack of ability to accept change
- Unstable leadership/lack of leadership
- Receiving direction from two or more bosses
- Limited staff decision-making and power issues
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