GCU NUR514 Organizational Leadership and Informatics Week 8 Discussion

NUR514 Organizational Leadership and Informatics

Week 8 Discussion

DQ1 Open and clear communication is critical for the effective functioning of the interprofessional team and the delivery of safe patient care. Discuss the way communication technologies can enhance coordination of care by interprofessional teams. Be sure to discuss a specific communication technology in your response.

Virtual care and telehealth exploded during the COVID-19 lockdowns. In the area of mental health virtual care and telehealth became extremely vital and has now helped to reshape the landscape of mental health allowing more people to access mental health specialists from anywhere across the country. It has also helped many healthcare specialists reach more people as it allowed them to communicate with patients virtually from the comforts of their home and office allowing them to increase their patient. telehealth has also allowed patients to communicate with their doctors from the comforts of their home or office and is another for patients to communicate with their physicians if they are sick without them having to come to the office and possibly spread their illness to individuals outside or in the office or even to the physicians. “With telemedicine, you don’t have to drive to the doctor’s office or clinic, park, walk or sit in a waiting room when you’re sick. You can see your doctor from the comfort of your own bed or sofa. Virtual visits can be easier to fit into your busy schedule. With telemedicine, depending on your schedule, you may not even have to take leave time from work or arrange for child care” (Hopkins Medicine, n.d.) Telehealth has allowed healthcare professionals to reach patients in areas that suffer from healthcare clinic deserts patients who live hours away or even states away and have allowed people to see specialists in other areas that they probably wouldn’t have met if they had to see them in person. Some of the drawbacks from virtual care slash telehealth include missing out on the face to face interaction with the doctors or healthcare professional and sometimes it could be difficult to possibly examine a patient virtually and in some cases when a patient sees a doctor in person the doctor can also or the health care specialist can also examine their body and examine them in full to recognize other possible healthcare issues that the patient may not have realized they were suffering from.

DQ2 Virtual care and telehealth technologies have the capability to greatly expand access to quality health care. Discuss some benefits and drawbacks of virtual care/telehealth particularly related to the collaboration and coordination of care and the role of the advanced registered nurse.