Question

Unfortunately, Mrs. Fox’s right leg could not be saved, and a surgical amputation was performed below the level of the knee. At that time, the patient also displayed impairments to the following: swallowing solid foods, speaking words and full sentences, anterograde memory, fine and gross motor function of the right upper and lower extremity.

Mrs. Fox spent 2-3 weeks in inpatient care receiving all necessary rehabilitation services with good improvement in objective measurements. However, it was determined that the patient was not yet prepared to return home safely with her family. The necessary paperwork was processed so that the patient could be transferred to Helen Hayes Hospital, a skilled nursing facility, where she could continue to receive rehabilitative and nursing services.

Prior to her accident, Mrs. Fox had a 15 year history of cigarette smoking. Her physician strongly advised her to cease smoking due to its negative effect upon tissue healing and overall negative effects upon her health. During a rehabilitation session, the patient reported that her situation had left her feeling depressed, particularly because of her difficulty communicating with her husband and 2 children. She also expressed fear that she would never walk “normally” again or be able to do things such as brush her hair, or feed herself like she did before. She stated she used to enjoy walking her dog, but now the only time she felt “happy” lately was when she was painting in the common room.

1) What health professionals may now be involved in her care? Name at least 3.

_a.__________________________________________________________

_b.__________________________________________________________

_c.___________________________________________________________

2. Why might providers need to communicate with one and another specific to this case?

3. How might they communicate? Choose the best answer:

A. As a Patient Centered Team

B. As a Functional Team

C. Both A & B

D. Neither A or B

4. Would you consider recommending the addition of Complementary Medicine providers or methods to Mrs. Fox’s healthcare recovery strategies? Briefly discuss, who or what would you add and why?

Answer 1

1-Psychologist, Orthopedic and Physiotherapist

2-Adopting an all-inclusive opinion of clients in management is particularly significant for any provision provider production transfers to other providers or activities. At the opinion of transfer, there is together a chance to speech a client's unmet requirements and a possible risk of mislaying the client. Collaboration is critical for avoiding clients from dropping through the cracks amongst self-governing and self-directed activities. Operative collaboration is also crucial to portion the client in the widest possible setting.

3-Both A and B

One of the major tests to any collaborative or system founded prototypical happens when respectively of frequent activities needs to use a dissimilar valuation tool to fold the same info.

4- A communal vision amid possible collaborators eases plans to attain mutual goals. The main advantage of teamwork amongst health activities is the better-quality fitness of customers and therefore of the community. One learning creates that fitness is reliant on on how individuals observe the excellence of their public. Management and vision among collaborative activities can make a alteration in the superiority of a community health care scheme and in the cost efficiency of the care delivered.

Collaboration amongst activities is the important to averting disintegration. In totaling to plummeting the probability of customers dropping through the snaps amid dissimilar and separate activities, collaboration can substitute a more all-inclusive interpretation of the client. Occasionally just a modest alteration of viewpoint can make the change amid conditions being observed as "requirements" and being observed as possessions.