Principles Of Health Care Quality

The classmate’s post brings into focus the error committed during interprofessional practice in health care setting. A team of professionals with different kinds of clinical knowledge works together in ICU's and operation theaters to perform complex surgeries and operations. The post highlights the need to design a skill-based, rule-based and knowledge-based safer system that minimizes error in health practices. It stressed on the need of giving training on how to work in an inter-professional group. For safer health practice, it suggested that each team members should clearly understand each other responsibility. It helps in the systematic division of task, minimizes burnout and also aids in safer health care environment. It stressed on the fact that interprofessional team members must have trust in each other's judgment and always look at ways to minimize risk in practice. Another advantage of a safe design system will be that people will have more trust in that particular healthcare organization where the minimum medical error is seen.  Hospitals can adopt inter-professional team simulation model that would focus on developing four competency skills for collaborative practice which are as follows:

• Values for interprofessional practice.
• Understanding each other role and responsibilities.
• Accurate interprofessional team communication.
• Teamwork behavior that facilitates patient-centered delivery of care (2).

Effective clinical practice is established when critical information of the patient is accurately communicated. Miscommunication between medical staff often creates a situation where medical errors occur. It may also cause severe injury or unexpected patient death. Therefore an interprofessional team with adequate skills required for team collaboration is needed to minimize errors (1).

Reference

1. Reeves S, Perrier L, Goldman J, Freeth D, Zwarenstein M. Interprofessional education: effects on professional practice and healthcare outcomes (update). Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2013 Mar 28;3(3).
2. Weaver SJ, Dy SM, Rosen MA. Team-training in healthcare: a narrative synthesis of the literature. BMJ quality & safety. 2014 Feb 5:bmjqs-2013.