Inter and Intradisciplinary Communication

Inter and Intradisciplinary Communication

Introduction

The healthcare systems have an objective to uphold and perk up patient care with respect to its functional status, sense of well being and the disease. This aim can achieve through a strong inter disciplinary communication link between the healthcare providers i.e. physicians, nurses, psychologists and the patient and the interdisciplinary collaboration between the nurse and the patient. The health care facilities deliver mostly through the collaborative teams. This involve the understanding of healthcare providers function, accountabilities and proficiencies in relation to other fields to control the indistinctness and improbability and working in cooperation with each other to evaluate strategies and supply care.

Discussion

The differences between intra and interdisciplinary teams

Interdisciplinary Team Model

The interdisciplinary health care team (IHCT) is a group of professionals that work in collaborative environment including physicians, nurse, pharmacist, and psychologist etc. to support and resolve patient issues that are complicated by any single discipline. IHCT consists of informal and formal arrangements and derive common team missions and goals (Drinka, 2000).

The successful working of a team involve institutional culture promotion to enhance the teamwork through the support from organizational head with and acquiescent legislative and regulation system that eloquent nurses role, ideological differences decline, organizational support, and plunder for the interdisciplinary interaction among different healthcare providers.

Intradisciplinary Team Model

The Intradisciplinary teams include only one professional field involve in direct interaction with the patient i.e. nurses. The registered nurse communicates with patient and facilitates them through the primary health provision to patients individually or in communities. The interdisciplinary nurse must have progressive knowledge and decision making ability in the patient's health diagnosis, analysis, the management of healthcare, the interventions related to therapeutics which involve pharmacologic , counseling and complementary interventions, and community planning and development to improve patient's health. The interdisciplinary teams allows the patient to stay in direct contact with the physicians, nurses, psychiatrists and have on e on one communication with them. Successful communication skills within healthcare teams

The principal communication skills includes the collaboration among the nurses, the physicians, the collaborative working staff and the physiotherapists is mandatory requirement of inter and interdisciplinary teams. The partnership in the teams involve the coordination and the cooperation in the planning and working all together and determination of the plans, goals, problem resolving, responsibility and the power to make decisions (Baggs and Schmitt, 1988).

Nurse- Physician Collaboration

The interaction of the nurse and the physician is important in the history collection, diagnosis and treatment. The purpose of the team work is to decrease the personal old hierarchy between the nurses and physicians (Prescott & Bowen, 1985).

Nurse Practioner & Physician Collaboration

The nurse Practioner helps the physician in the team work in the treatment and the management of the patient in the inpatient and outpatient departments (Campbell-Heider & Pollock, 1987). They also work mutually to provide long term patient care and improve efficiency of the patient care.

Social Worker & Physician Collaboration

They work together to determine the social and psycho factors determination to provide health care ...