Question

In nursing practice, nurses collaborate with the client and other care providers and engage in teamwork every day to achieve the best for the client. Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative (CIHC) National Interprofessional Competency Framework identifies role clarification as one of key competency domains health care providers need to enact to practice collaboratively within a client’s health care team. Role clarification means you can articulate your nursing knowledge, skills, and expertise and also understand the roles of other health care providers.

Explore how, as a beginning nurse professional in the context of long-term care, you can work within interprofessional teams by responding to following three items.

Practice explaining your professional role to a team member from another profession by providing a description of your role.

Consider the role of two other professional team members. Conduct research on the professions by reviewing the professional association website (e.g., Dieticians of Canada; Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists; Canadian Therapeutic Recreation Association; Canadian Physiotherapy Association) and provide a brief description of the role.

What are the similarities and differences between the professions/roles (including yours)?

Answer 1

1. practice explaining your role to a team member:

hello, i am a professional nurse who is designated to provide direct health care services for the patients in terms of prevention of illness, promotion and restoration of health. the nurse is responsible for admission, initial assessment, daily assessment, assisting and performing invasive and non invasive procedures, meeting the nutritional, elimination and activity needs, transport, referral, rehabilitation and discharge.

2. role of other two professional team members:

occupational therapist helps in developing and restoring skills related to physical and mental ability and social skills training. these therapists helps the patient to develop and restore the skills required to lead a quality life and earn for themselves through referrals to various factories and industrial centres.

dietiticians help the patient in planning a helalthy nutrition to balance the heath and teach on various diet pattern that could benefit the health of patients. dietician also prepares menu plan for each patient depending on the need or condition. calorie requirement would be charted foe each patient based on the disaese condition.

3.

similarities:

nurse, occupational therapist and dietician work and collaborate together for better health outcomes of the patient.

these are different professionals with specified roles but ultimate goal is to improve the health status of the patient.

dissmiliarities:

the roles of a nurse is the overall restoration of health of a patient.

dietician focus on the improvement of nutritional needs of the patient.

occupational therapist focus on the improvement of social and vocational needs of the patient.