NHS 8040: Unit 1 Discussion It Takes a Team!
NHS 8040: Unit 1 Discussion It Takes a Team!
To develop high-performing teams, a leader must first understand disciplines other than his or her own. In this discussion, you will examine individual professional contributions to health care and public health teams and the roles and responsibilities of interprofessional primary care team members.
Preventative screening for chronic diseases gives individuals clarity and a sense of security, protecting them, and allowing them to live a longer, healthier life. To achieve this, the word needs to be spread about these wonderful immunizations and screenings. One way to do this is by creating a patient profile. This patient profile would be essentially a portal with all of their medical info, immunizations, medical history, and family history. This patient portal will remind them of the dates to be tested. For example, every year a woman should have a pap smear. It will alert them when it is needed, while also showing various health centers near them. Another example would be when their immunizations expire, such as the Tdap and tetanus shots. Based on family history, it would alert you at certain ages to be tested or screened for cancer. For example, if you have a history of breast cancer, should be tested at 30 and every year after. There is a lot of information out there and it tends to get lost in translation. This app or patient profile helps track and keep your medical history up to date.
A multidisciplinary approach to address patient, family, and community needs requires mutual respect and understanding among various health care professionals. In a multidisciplinary team, each discipline contributes independently to a patient’s care or to a new policy analysis or formulation. In an interprofessional team, members work closely together and communicate frequently to optimize outcomes for the individual, family, or community. This type of team is organized around a common set of problems and meets frequently to consult (American Public Health Association, n.d.).
After reviewing the unit readings, please begin your initial post by defining the terms multidisciplinary and interprofessional, and then discuss your experiences in health care or public health teams. Give an example of a successful team and an unsuccessful team if possible. Analyze whether each team was multidisciplinary or interprofessional.
Be sure to include at least one APA-formatted citation (in text plus full reference). The citation may be from course textbooks, assigned readings, or an outside source.
Note: For all course discussions, be sure to adhere to the requirements for initial posts and peer responses addressed in the School of Nursing and Health Sciences Faculty Expectations message (FEM).
Response Guidelines
Read and respond to your peers’ posts according to FEM guidelines. In each response, compare your own experiences to those of your peer. Ask for clarification or comment on the learner’s analysis of whether the team was multidisciplinary or interprof
essional. If your response offers an alternative viewpoint or refers to the ideas or work of others, your assertions must be supported by citing an outside source, using APA formatting.
Reference
American Public Health Association. (n.d.). Promoting interprofessional education. Retrieved from http://www.apha.org/policies-and-advocacy/public-health-policy-statements/policy-database/2014/07/23/09/20/promoting-interprofessional-education
Learning Components
This activity will help you achieve the following learning components:
Define effective leadership.
APA Writing Checklist
Use this document as a checklist for each paper you will write throughout your GCU graduate program. Follow specific instructions indicated in the assignment and use this checklist to help ensure correct grammar and APA formatting. Refer to the APA resources available in the GCU Library and Student Success Center.
☐ APA paper template (located in the Student Success Center/Writing Center) is utilized for the correct format of the paper. APA style is applied, and format is correct throughout.
☐ The title page is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
☐ The introduction is present. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
☐ Topic is well defined.
☐ Strong thesis statement is included in the introduction of the paper.
☐ The thesis statement is consistently threaded throughout the paper and included in the conclusion.
☐ Paragraph development: Each paragraph has an introductory statement, two or three sentences as the body of the paragraph, and a transition sentence to facilitate the flow of information. The sections of the main body are organized to reflect the main points of the author. APA format is applied correctly. There are no errors.
☐ All sources are cited. APA style and format are correctly applied and are free from error.
☐ Sources are completely and correctly documented on a References page, as appropriate to assignment and APA style, and format is free of error.
Scholarly Resources: Scholarly resources are written with a focus on a specific subject discipline and usually written by an expert in the same subject field. Scholarly resources are written for an academic audience.
Examples of Scholarly Resources include: Academic journals, books written by experts in a field, and formally published encyclopedias and dictionaries.
Peer-Reviewed Journals: Peer-reviewed journals are evaluated prior to publication by experts in the journal’s subject discipline. This process ensures that the articles published within the journal are academically rigorous and meet the required expectations of an article in that subject discipline.
Empirical Journal Article: This type of scholarly resource is a subset of scholarly articles that reports the original finding of an observational or experimental research study. Common aspects found within an empirical article include: literature review, methodology, results, and discussion.
Adapted from “Evaluating Resources: Defining Scholarly Resources,” located in Research Guides in the GCU Library.
☐ The writer is clearly in command of standard, written, academic English. Utilize writing resources such as Grammarly, LopesWrite report, and ThinkingStorm to check your writing.
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