ICare Concept And Interprofessional Teams Assignment

Instructions:

The purpose of the iCARE Paper assignment is to explore the concept of interprofessional teams and patient outcomes. Nursing supportive actions of compassion, advocacy, resilience, and evidence-based practice will serve as a way to apply care concepts. Interprofessional teams are part of practice trends we see developing in all aspects of care delivery.

Consider your own work environment. For this assignment, consider the concept of interprofessional teamwork and patient outcomes. Look to your current workplace as an example. Apply the components of the iCARE concept to interprofessional teams in a short paper. (Body of the paper to be 3 pages, excluding the title page and references page)

Use APA format throughout, particularly in citations and on the References page.

Please paraphrase throughout. One short quote is permitted.

PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING SOURCE:

Facilitating Implementation of Interprofessional Collaborative Practices Into Primary Care: A Trilogy of Driving Forces Bareil, Duhamel, Lalonde et al And one additional source

PLEASE USE THE FOLLOWING WORKSETTING:

Cardiovascular ICU Nursing Paper Directions:

  • Use the template given

Getting Started: Interprofessional teams are part of practice trends we see developing in all aspects of care delivery. Consider you own work environment (or recent clinical setting)

For this assignment, consider the concept of interprofessional teamwork and patient outcomes.

Look to your current workplace as an example. (If you are not currently employed, look to a past workplace or clinical practice area.)

Apply the components of the iCARE concept to interprofessional teams in a short paper. (Body of the paper to be 3 pages, excluding the title page and references page)

iCARE components are:

  • Compassion
  • Advocacy
  • Resilience
  • Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)

How could you contribute to an interprofessional team and patient outcomes through nursing actions of: compassion, advocacy, resilience, and evidence-based practice?

Select one scholarly nursing article from CINAHL as a resource for your paper.

Additional scholarly sources can be used but are optional.

  • Use APA format throughout, particularly in citations and on the References page.
  • Please paraphrase throughout. One short quote is permitted.

The prepared paper template is RECOMMENDED for this assignment.

Elements Of ICARE Paper

Title Page

Below are the headings to be used for this assignment.

Introduction: (No heading needed here in APA) Explain the type of work setting you are discussing and whether interprofessional teams are currently present. If interprofessional teams are present, indicate a team function that could be improved. If interprofessional teams are NOT present, indicate what type of team you think might be possible in the setting.

Describe a nursing action item for each component below that could contribute to: interprofessional team support; how this might impact the culture of your unit or organization; and possible impact on patient outcomes.

  • Compassion
  • Advocacy
  • Resilience
  • Evidence-Based Practice

Summary: Include a summary statement of how iCARE components can support interprofessional teams and patient outcomes. Address how you may be able to influence this process of support for interprofessional teams overall in your unit or organization.

Assignment

This paragraph(s) is to introduce the paper. Explain the type of work setting you are discussing and whether interprofessional teams are present. If present, indicate a team function that could be improved. If not present, indicate what type of team you think might work well in this setting and how it might function. Remember this is a scholarly APA assignment so you cannot use first person. Remember also that you will keep all the bolded headings and just remove the non-bolded content when you start your paper.

Compassion

In this paragraph, describe a nursing action that could contribute to compassion through interprofessional team support; describe how this might impact the culture of your unit or organization; and possible impact on patient outcomes.

Advocacy

In this paragraph, describe a nursing action that could contribute to advocacy through interprofessional team support; describe how this might impact the culture of your unit or organization; and possible impact on patient outcomes.

Resilience

In this paragraph, describe a nursing action that could contribute to resilience through interprofessional team support; describe how this might impact the culture of your unit or organization; and possible impact on patient outcomes.

Evidence-Based Practice

In this paragraph, describe a nursing action that could contribute to evidence-based practice through interprofessional team support; how this might impact the culture of your unit or organization; and possible impact on patient outcomes.

Summary

Provide a clear and concise summary. Include a summary statement of how iCARE components can support interprofessional teams and patient outcomes through nursing actions. Address how you may be able to influence this process of support for interprofessional teams in your unit or in your organization.

Inter-professional or multidisciplinary healthcare teams are groups of health professionals from different disciplines collaborating to provide care to patients. Effectively coordinated and collaborative inter-professional teams are essential to the care and treatment of patients (Rowlands & Callen, 2013; Doyle, 2008; Ruhstaller.

Roe, Thürlimann & Nicoll, 2006; Simpson & Patton, 2012, p. 300). Communication is a process of conferring information between individuals through use of speech, writing or various other means, and is critical to the success of a multidisciplinary team (MDT) (Higgs, McAllister & Sefton, 2012, p. 5; Rowlands & Callen, 2013; Sargeant, Loney & Murphy, 2008).

An MDT must use multiple strategies to enhance communication and ensure their success (Doyle, 2008). An effective MDT generates opportunities that benefit healthcare, which is the reason for the recent dominance of interprofessional care in health practice (Simpson & Patton, 2012, p. 300; Rowlands & Callen, 2013). 

Many barriers prevent effective communication within interprofessional teams. Lack of communication within MDTs presents challenges to their success, leading to numerous consequences, including the failure of the MDT (London Deanery, 2012; Sargeant et al, 2008).

Communication between professionals is the key factor underpinning the potential success or failure of inter-professional teams, the outcome of the functioning of MDTs will either benefit or impair care of patients.

Question Description

Purpose

The purpose of the iCARE Paper assignment is to explore the concept of interprofessional teams and patient outcomes. Nursing supportive actions of compassion, advocacy, resilience, and evidence-based practice will serve as a way to apply care concepts.

Course Outcomes

This assignment enables the student to meet the following course outcomes:

  • CO1: Applies principles of nursing, theories, and the care philosophies to self, colleagues, individuals, families, aggregates and communities throughout the healthcare system. (PO#1)
  • CO6: Plans clinical practice activities that integrate professional nursing standards in accordance with the Nursing Code of Ethics and the American Nurses’ Association

(ANA) standards of practice. (PO#6)

Points

The assignment is worth 200 points.

Due Date

Submit your completed assignment by Sunday end of Week 5 by 11:59 p.m. MT.