NMC domain two and seven
Report on the learner’s engagement with the
multi-disciplinary team
In the clinical placement it is vital to promote and
maintain a close communication and collaboration between the members of the
professional team in order to deliver the best patient care. Our
inter-professional team is formed of a multi-professional staff such as doctors
(SPR, SHO, HO, consultant), sisters, discharge sister, dialysis nurses, staff
nurses, healthcare assistant, physiotherapists, occupational therapists,
dietitian, porters, and outside from the clinical practice such as social
services, district nurses. Each member of the teamwork has their role in order
to run efficiently the medical process that needs to be delivered to the
patients according to their needs. There are always running meetings between
the multi-professional team on our ward in order to achieve the best care plan
for our patients such as nursing handover, ward rounds, MDT meetings to
discharge a patient in a safe environment with the appropriate care tailored to
each patient according to their needs. The student was taught and encouraged to
attend at these meetings for further professional development. The student was
also taught the sequences of the process such as how and to whom to pass a
message when a scenario needs urgent input for the patient, how to refer a
patient to the physiotherapist, OT, dietitian for specialist input, how to get
in contact with porters for equipment or blood, how to access the external
medical team through the phone etc. In order to understand the importance of
being part of teamwork, the student was asked to give continuous feedback and
encouraged to reflect upon and ask questions whenever necessary. By the end of
the placement the student understood how important is to work as a teamwork for
patients’ good, the role and importance of each member of the teamwork and
acknowledged that failing to pass on medical information to the right member or
skipping a member of the teamwork can have a major negative impact on the
patient.
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