Interdisciplinary Team

concept of Interdisciplinary Team

1. A nilkumar br lecturer medical-surgical nursing

2. Intetdisciplinary team

3. Introduction Interdisciplinary team work is complex process in which different types of health care profisionals work together and collaboratively to share experience, knowledge and skills, to impact on patient health care.

4. Define interdisciplinary team Interdisciplinary team is used as a generic term of reference for these health care teams which included a range if health services workers both professionals and non-professional with the majority being from professional groups.

5. A dynamic process involving two or more health professionas with complementary backgrounds,skills,sharing common health goals and exercising concerted physical and mental efforts in assessing,planning or evalvating patient care. This accomplished through interdepedent collaboration, open communication and shared descion making and clear inter depndce interaction.

6. Concepts of interdisciplinary team Team work communication decision making

7. Iimportance of interdisciplinary team work The need for interdisciplinary team work is increasing as a result of a number of factors including An aging population with frail older pepole and larger numbers of patients with more complex needs associated with chronic disease The increasing complexity of skills and knowledge required to provide comprehensive care to patients

8. Conti.... 3. Increasing specialization within health professions and a corresponding fragmentation of disciplinary knowledge resulting in health care professional being able to meet all the complex needs their patients 4. The current emphasis in many countries policy documents on multi professional team work and development of shared learning 5. The pursuit of continuity of care within the move towards continous patient care quality improvement.