NR 451 iCare Paper Week 5.docx

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Interprofessional Teamwork In the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) interprofessional teams are present, alive, and well. case managers are available to assist patients with discharge needs, social workers ... assist the case managers by searching out community resources and assisting in arrangements for durable medical equipment and servies. Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy, and Speech Therapy are involved in the care of ICU patients, especially after prolonged ventilator use, in order to assess patient’s physical strengths, fine motor strengths, and swallowing capabilities. Physicians and nurses also work side by side as an integral part of the interprofessional care team. The communication between physicians and nurses is the one area where the most improvement needs to transpire. While teamwork is an absolute necessity for providing excellent patient care, communication is imperative for providing safe patient care (Amudha, Hamidah, Annanma, Ananth, 2018). Compassion Nursing epitomizes the very idea of compassion. A nurse provides intimate care to complete strangers in their weakest, most vulnerable moments. The ability to practice compassionate communication is not necessarily intuitive, but with practice can be learned. Tone of voice, smiling, touch, active listening, and communicating difficult information with sensitivity are all ways of practicing compassionate communication in nursing (Sinclair, et. al., 2016). As a nurse grows in the profession and becomes more intuitive, this compassionate communication extends to coworkers and the interprofessional team as well. This study source was downloaded by 100000829219024 from CourseHero.com on 08-13-2021 09:57:20 GMT -05:00 https://www.coursehero.com/file/40093383/NR-451-iCare-Paper-Week-5docx/ This study resource was shared via CourseHero.com TEAMWORK 3 Advocacy Patient advocacy can take on many forms within the hosp [Show More]

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