Best-practice Interdisciplinary Collaboration Strategies

Best-practice Interdisciplinary Collaboration Strategies

Modern healthcare inculcates a dynamic set of teams from different disciplines for increasing positive outcomes and success. It supports innovation, effective work, collaborative effort, and the best outcome for a healthcare problem. There are four pillars of best interdisciplinary collaboration.

These four pillars are strategies for building trust and confidence teamwork communication, Implementation designs, and transparency. Without the help of prerequisites interdisciplinary collaboration cannot work efficiently (Morley & Cashell, 2017). In the above situation, the healthcare providers were new to each other but due to trust, immediate implementation, and transparency, they were able to deliver the baby successfully. If the team wouldn’t agree on one suggestion they would be a huge loss of two lives.

However, challenges remain in the way of achieving the team’s success. the challenge that existed in this particular situation was the patient’s agreement on c-section. This situation was also dealt with patience and unity as the obstetrician politely conveyed each risk to the patient which was understood by her immediately.

One of the most effective and primary approaches to dealing with a healthcare emergency is PDSA i.e. “Plan, Do, Study, Act”. PDSA approach is used to improve the healthcare quality (Prybutok, 2018).

In the above scenario of childbirth, the entire team planned the decision to go for a normal delivery or c-section. All team members were equally contributing in suggesting the best option for the respective patient. They thoroughly studied the sequence of events and eventually came to a final decision. At that moment, timely leadership and decision-making of the gynecologist brought forth positive outcomes. Therefore, collaborative planning, study, and action is the primary strategy required for dealing with healthcare emergencies.

Other than team collaboration, expert training, knowledge, skill development, and perpetual professional progress are important strategies to have a high-quality interdisciplinary collaboration . These will ensure better patient safety, lower mortality rates, safety, and decreased errors in a healthcare setting.

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Conclusion

Interdisciplinary collaboration is an effective tool of communication between healthcare professionals from different professions to coordinate for the best patient outcome. There are a number of strategies that can make inter-professional collaboration successful. These strategies work at the team level as well as require an elite leadership approach. Other than collaboration, interdisciplinary collaboration also aims at reducing errors, providing high-quality healthcare services, and utmost patient satisfaction.

References

Barr, J., & Dowding, L. (2022). Leadership in Health Care. In Google Books. SAGE Publications. https://books.google.com.pk/books?hl=en&lr=&id=Sx1tEAAAQBAJ&oi=fnd&pg=PP1&dq=best+leadership+in+healthcare&ots=ErvhJPFQG6&sig=DB7wkwoqQntD3EPcuRaQEA-yPxg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=best%20leadership%20in%20healthcare&f=false