Professional Responsibilities and Overlapping General Roles in Patient Care

 

Introduction

Healthcare and healthcare services not only involves treating a patient but also showing care and providing emotional support. Emotional support and caring for the patient help in their healing process hence very important. Because of the many responsibilities connected to the provision of healthcare services, there is also an increase in allied professionals and overlapping roles of professionals. 

Problems associated with the multidisciplinary approach to patient care include poor communication from the different levels of healthcare workers. Communication barriers between specialists who feel are better than the rest is a prevailing problem. That mentality from these specialists leads to derailed procedures and decisions regarding the patient (Epstein 2014). It also does not promote teamwork which is important in healthcare in terms of providing the quality of care for the patients. In the operating room, the major problems include music and talking which acts as a distraction and therefore increases the operative risks and this leads to blaming games.

The inclusion of the patient in decision making is the professional’s responsibility. Patients and family members would want to feel included in the decision-making process. The professionals should communicate frequently about the patient (Epstein 2014). Communicating with the patient about their information, progress will enable them in their recovery process. It is satisfying to a patient when they are respectfully and with compassion given information about their condition and possible recovery.

Conclusion

Overlapping roles of professionals causes problems that negatively affect the patient’s outcome. Poor communication between professionals and other healthcare workers is a major problem. Professionals should take it as their responsibility to communicate with the patients about their health and recovery. This information should be given respectfully and compassionately.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References

Epstein N. E. (2014). Multidisciplinary in-hospital teams improve patient outcomes: A review.

Surgical neurology international, 5(Suppl 7), S295–S303. https://doi.org/10.4103/2152-7806.139612