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CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF A VIDEO TITLED: 'MISSED OPPORTUNITIES FOR

INTERPROFESSIONAL TEAMWORK'

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CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF A VIDEO TITLED: 'MISSED OPPORTUNITIES FOR

INTERPROFESSIONAL TEAMWORK'

It is the work of the health care team to provide quality patient care. The health care team needs

to work in collaboration to make the sharing of their unique patient care techniques possible, To

achieve the best health care for a patient. There are different distinct professions within the

health care which are needed to work together for the best outcome of a patient, and each

profession got different professional identities, knowledge and skill sets. However, barriers such

as lack of professional role models, perceived power differentials, and cultural competence

hinder the team-based system. The faculty needs to practice the core competencies for

interprofessional collaborative practice to overcome these barriers and promote shared decision

making, accountability, respect, trust and effective teamwork for quality patient care.

One of the principles of health care is the quality of practice. The principle requires that every

nurse, doctor and all the stakeholders who are dealing with the patient to show kindness to the

patient, be compassionate, people who are self-conscious and are competent with their roles and

obligations (Ireland, 2014, p. 9). Each is also expected to ensure a safe working environment for

their colleagues and that of the patients. In the video, the lack of quality of the practice is

evident. Each department does not provide a qualitative report which shows that they care for the

patient's condition. Every individual tries to prove that it is not his or her responsibility, but it

should get left in the hand of the next department.

Collaboration with the other members of the health care team is another principle that guides the

health care industry. It is well known that in each health care unit there are different

professionals with different ideas and knowledge (McCarthy, 2012, p. 2293). These individuals

need to work together for the best outcome of a patient (Ireland, 2014, p. 17). The team seems to

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be uncollaborative and indifferent. Each appears to be self-centered with no space to hear what

the other one has to say. When one person is giving his or her take in the case, the others are

busy with their hair, phones, and files.

Professional accountability and responsibility should also guide all stakeholders in the health

care unit. All the nurses and doctors are expected to portray distinctive standards of professional

practices (Dobrowolska, 2007, p. 173). They are accountable and responsible for their actions

and attitudes including omissions and inactions. The team does not portray this principle. The

patient is said to have gotten discharged from the hospital without proper guidance on how to

conduct himself after getting released. Even after highlighting this issue none seem to be moved

by the inaction, but they try to justify the situation.

The dignity of the patient should get respect at all cost (Ireland, 2014, p 9). It is the responsibility

of every nurse and the doctors to know that every person is unique and respect their fate both for

the patients and the coworkers (Reeves, 2011, p. 78). Laughing because of the patient's

conditions shows bleach of respecting the patient's dignity and disrespect to the patient. Such is

the incident in the video where the patient's condition get exposed without a motive to treat or

offer to counsel to the patient. Lack of defending the dignity of the colleagues is also evident in

the video whereby none of the team members is given attention by the other members when they

are delivering their report.

Engagement and positive attitude among the team members is another guiding principle in the

nursing profession (Reeves S. P., 2013, p. 2). Every team member should listen to the other

member’s opinions and give their stand in the issue at hand. The members should not have

prejudice to another team member before he or she delivers his position. The video portrays high

levels of poor attitude and lack of engagement. When one member of the team is talking the

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others are busy with other pieces of stuff that are not related in any way to the issue at hand. It

seems that the team gets divided since when one member is talking some are listening while

others are busy on their stuff or are showing ridiculous facial expression.

A health care team needs to work as an integrated machine with no internal conflicts and with

the same goals for the best outcome (Bridges, 2011, p. 6035). Each part of the machine needs to

perform its roles the best way it can before handing over to the next section. The video shows a

divided team where each is self-centered and not committed to achieving the goals of the group.

The team also does not seem to have a common goal or show any commitment to the universal

health care goal of giving quality services to every patient (Ireland, 2014, p. 23). There is no

cohesion within the departments involved, and many unaddressed conflicts must be existing

within the organization.

The structure of work in any healthcare promotes a difference in status. It, therefore, calls for

high levels of professionalism and respect for all the departments involved to work in harmony

(Gittell, 2010, p. 493). Each department needs to know that the other department plays an

essential role in realizing the organizational goals. Each department relies on the report from the

different departments to carry out its professional mandate (Hall, 2005, p. 194). In the video,

each department representative seems to be independent and immune from the other

departments’ report on the patient’s condition which leads to the failure of the team in offer

quality health care to the patient in question.

The team also seems to be composed of ‘knowers’ and ‘unknowns'. The setting highly affects the

way that every individual is handled in the group (Xyrichis, 2008, p. 240). The chairperson

seems to have different attitudes towards different personals in the team. She shows more respect

for some members of the team than the others. This is unprofessional delegation which makes it

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difficult for her to get MDT to take responsibility. The team has gotten divided into sections

where the knowers respect the knowers and do not show interest in the ‘others' reports.

The primary concern for any health care organization is offering quality care for every patient

(Foronda, 2016, p 37). The meeting was convened to discuss the fate of the patient, but it ends

up that the patient gets out of the topic and internal wrangles take over the meeting. No one

seems to get dedicated to ensuring that the patient receives the best care by ensuring that a

follow-up is conducted to know how the patient is fairing. Even the counseling department does

not show any concern even after the report that no counsel got offered to the patient.

In conclusion, the video does not show any professional adherence to healthcare principles.

There is no promotion of dignity, collaboration with other team members, no accountability or

responsibility, quality of practice, and no trust and confidentiality in the team.

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Works Cited

Bridges, D. D. (2011). Interprofessional collaboration: three best practice models of interprofessional

education. Medical education online, 16(1), p.6035.

Dobrowolska, B. W. (2007). Moral obligations of nurses based on the ICN, UK, Irish and Polish codes of

ethics for nurses. Nursing Ethics, 14(2), 171-180.

Foronda, C. M. (2016). Interprofessional communication in healthcare: an integrative review. Nurse

education in practice, 19, pp.36-40.

Gittell, J. H. (2010). A relational model of how high-performance work systems work. Organization

Science, 21(2), 490-506.

Hall, P. (2005). Interprofessional teamwork: Professional cultures as barriers. Journal of Interprofessional

Care, 19(sup1), pp.188-196.

Ireland, N. a. (2014). Code of professional conduct and ethics for registered nurses and registered

midwives. Bord Altranais Agus.

McCarthy, G. C. (2012). Practice nurses and general practitioners: perspectives on the role and future

development of practice nursing in Ireland. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 21(15‐16), pp.2286-2295.

Reeves, S. L. (2011). Interprofessional teamwork for health and social care (Vol. 8). John Wiley & Sons.

Reeves, S. P. (2013). Interprofessional education: effects on professional practice and healthcare

outcomes. Cochrane Database of systematic reviews, 1-3.

Xyrichis, A. a. (2008). Teamwork, a concept analysis. Journal of advanced nursing, 61(2), pp.232-241.

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