Interprofessional Education Response

Please respond to this 2 Discussion Prompts.

Please respond to discussion posts separately. The TWO peer posts should state whether you agree or disagree with the post, then provide a short explanation to support your reasoning (50 – 100 words each).

If there any citation, Please cite APA 7th edition.

Discussion pompt #1

St Martha’s hospital needs a long educational course on how to be professional and ethical. They allow such ethical violations as unauthorized treatments being given to patients, improperly trained staff caring for patients, and falsifying legal documentation to name a few things.

In the case of the affair. Leann the Pharmacist slept with Bobby the Nurse. When the affair was over the two could no longer work together professionally and Leann got back at Bobby by not filling the medications his patients needed. If the two individuals had interprofessional education they would know that sleeping with a coworker is extremely unprofessional, especially a married coworker. According to Pozgar (2016), a pharmacist is legally required to prepare and dispense drugs for patients. The fact that she denied Bobby’s patients the medications they needed is considered unprofessional conduct. According to Pozgar (2016), she could get her license revoked or suspended for such actions.

The whole staff should have a briefing about the dangers of having a romantic relationship with a coworker. There is a risk of patients getting caught in the crossfire so to say, just like in the case mentioned above. They should also all have a briefing on the hospitals Code of Ethics because the staff has broken most if not all the ethical codes. For example, the codes avoid conflict of interest and set metrics and report results accurately were broken when the hospital president hired her best friend to be the accountant and they falsified legal documents to get a loan for the hospital.

If the staff was properly trained, then there would be far less risk of injury the patients and ethical codes would not get violated like they are now. If they are violated, I think the clinician should be instantly fired. They should be fired because they have been trained on the importance of professionalism and ethics and violates should not be tolerated.

Discussion pompt # 2

An interprofessional education could be beneficial to the employees in St. Martha’s General Hospital Scenario particularly since it will help the employees gather shared knowledge of other health care workers duties in the facility. Interprofessional education (IPE) refers to the situations where two different professionals learn about one another to improve the collaboration and quality of care patients receive (Guraya & Barr, 2018). A hospital setting can benefit tremendously by incorporating interprofessional education simply by helping employees collaborate and promote teamwork within the workplace (Guraya & Barr, 2018).

Looking at the different scenarios at St. Martha’s General Hospital, the lack of interprofessional education shows drastically particularly in the slacker scenario part 1 & 2. In these scenarios, Tom and Bobby disregard their job as nurses by passing along their work to their nurse assistants, act unprofessionally, misuse proper hygiene responsibilities, falsely request medication for patients that do not need them, and improperly dispose waste products in the healthcare facility. These unprofessional behaviors that the nurses are demonstrating can lead to tragic consequences for patients, hospitals, and co-workers. The use of interprofessional education could benefit in this scenario by helping nursing assistants know the job of their fellow nurses and what their responsibilities are to reduce the improper conduct these nurses are exemplifying into their workforce. Nursing assistants being aware of the nurse’s responsibilities in the workforce would help eliminate the questionable behavior on what they should and shouldn’t be doing. This can reduce risk and improve the quality-of-care patients are receiving.

Some different ways knowledge can be passed on to other employees regarding job responsibilities are through in-service trainings. As a caregiver my employer relies our duties and the duties of others through yearly and 6-month trainings which include the responsibility and duties of our team in order to provide the best care to our patients. These trainings are very beneficial since they act as a tool to update and refresh an employee’s occupational knowledge and skill duties that are necessary for fulfilling the duties and responsibilities that we as a healthcare provider must adhere to.

Aging Populations & Healthcare Case

Research and select a current (last 5 years) scholarly journal article of interest from Seneca’s library in which the author(s) discuss(es) a chronic illness that can impact the older adult. Identify the chronic illness. (Be sure to cite and reference the journal article).

1. Describe the main points discussed in the journal article.
2. Summarize any recommendations healthcare managers can consider for future practice.
3. Select and view one of the aging ‘simulations’ outlined on power point slides 17 or 18 in the week 4 class notes. State the aging simulation viewed.
4. Share your thoughts and initial reactions concerning the aging simulation.

Health and Medical Population Health

Define public health and define population health. How are the two concepts related?
What are the core functions of public health?
Describe the ten essential functions or services of public health.
What is systems thinking and why is it useful for public health?
What is Healthy People 2020 (or 2030) and what does it seek to accomplish? How might it serve to guide public health administrators in their program planning?

District Reply to Tan

Tan

Inital Response:

In terms of the COVID-19 pandemic, I think we can see this with the rapid spread of COVID-19 within America, but also in the spread of the new variants. When we look at Covid-19 in comparison to the SARs pandemic, both carry similar origins and attack the respiratory system as RNA viruses within the Coronaviridae family (Caldaria et al., 2020). However we see that Covid-19 has been significantly more widely spread globally and has a much higher prevalence rate, but SARS has a higher mortality rate. In this case, you could state that since SARS was much more controlled in its spread, the virus evolved into a less lethal virus that allows it to be much more contagious and more difficult to identify. Since Covid-19 can go undetected in asymptomatic individuals, it is able to spread much quicker within gatherings and families, while SARS had a shorter incubation period and would have symptoms appear quicker. In terms of infectious rate, COVID-19 was found to have an R0 number ranging from 1.95-5 as more research is performed while SARS was only 3. Then when we account for the new COVID-19 variants in the U.K., South Africa, and Brazil despite the arrival of the vaccine, we could say that while we have reached a potential end to the pandemic, COVID-19 is evolving at a rate to compete with human research to infect our population as much as possible. While our food quality has improved so much, we have also seen an increase in other diseases that were not as widespread before such as E.coli and Salmonella. With the increasing industrialization, a lot of companies will try to make food harvesting and processing processes as efficient as possible to increase profit margins which can lead to oversight in the safety and easy spread of these bacteria from animal fecal matter to fruits, vegetables, and meat. Despite this, we’ve seen many changes year after year for rises and falls in E.coli and Salmonella infections rates, but no solutions to completely remove the chance of infection despite increasing usage of poultry vaccinations and USDA quality oversight (Schnirring, 2018). While we have come to use processes such as pasteurization for dairy products, there are so many strains of E.coli and Salmonella that have arisen in response to our attempts to decontaminate our crops and animals that have become much more resistant to treatments. Overall, I would say that while our health standards and treatments have been developing very quickly, many bacteria and viral diseases have also evolved as a response and we need to be aware of this for public health.

Caldaria, A., Conforti, C., Di Meo, N., Dianzani, C., Jafferany, M., Lotti, T., . . . Giuffrida, R. (2020, July). COVID-19 and SARS: Differences and similarities. Retrieved February 03, 2021, from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7235519/ (Links to an external site.)

Schnirring, L. (2018, March 23). CDC says Some FoodNet Salmonella infections rising. Retrieved February 03, 2021, from https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2018/03/cdc-says-some-foodnet-salmonella-infections-rising (Links to an external site.)

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