Description
As a healthcare professional, you will be a part of an Interdisciplinary team. That team will communicate together about the patient from different points of view in order to provide the best treatment plan.
You will choose two allied health specialties from either The Association of Schools for Allied Health Professions website or the textbook. Write a paper of 500-750 words addressing the specialties that would interact during a typical workday in a hospital, a long-term care facility, and an outpatient clinic. You will specifically address three out of the following six questions in your paper:
- What is their function?
- How does it affect your specialty?
- How does it affect the patient?
- If a facility did not have a particular specialty, who would be able to take over that function?
- Would you be willing to be cross-trained for the function?
- Is there a written policy for coverage issues?
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Explanation & Answer
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Running Head: INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS
Interdisciplinary Teams
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INTERDISCIPLINARY TEAMS
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An interdisciplinary team in healthcare practices brings together more than one specialty
together supported by practice and policies to provide care to the patients. It challenges the l
boundaries of care by creating collaboration and integration between various healthcare
professionals (ASAHP, 2019). As a healthcare professional, who is part of an interdisciplinary
team comprising of dental hygienists and physical therapists, I will be expected to embrace the
joint communication about the patient from diverse perspectives to provide the best treatment
plan.
The function of an interdisciplinary team that brings together dental hygienists and
physical therapists is to create an avenue of sharing information to facilitate shared decisionmaking. These interdisciplinary team will identify a leader who will provide supervision and
support to other team members and incorporate shared values to help the team achieve a
common goal of provid...