Ethical Decision-Making Framework
- Determine wether the issue is an ethical dilemma.
-Gather all the information relevant to the case.
-Examine and determine your own values on the issue
-Verbalize the problem
-Consider possible courses of action.
-Reflect on the outcome.
-Evaluate the action and the outcome.
Whats the value in Inter-professional Collaboration? (Patients)
-Increases safety.
-Reduces hospitalizations and readmissions.
- Fewer errors
-Lower incidence of collateral disease and mortality.
-Decreases patients length of stay
-Improves patient satisfaction
Whats the value in Inter-professional Collaboration? (Providers)
- Communication and working relationships
-Satisfaction
-Retention of staff
Whats the value in Inter-professional Collaboration? (For the healthcare system)
- Increases access to health services.
-Reduces issues that cause burnout and leaves of absence.
-Improve the quality of healthcare.
-Reduce the costs related to healthcare.
Inter-professional collaboration is what?
A relationship between a team of health care providers and a client in a participatory collaborative and coordinated approach to shared decision-making around health and social issues.
What is the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative? (CIHC)
- National group of educators, policy makers, health providers and students who are committed to changing the healthcare system for the better.
-This group has been working for more then a decade to strengthen the knowledge base and practice for a collaborative, patient centered practice.
What is Role Clarification? (part of CIHC)
Learners and practitioners understand their own roles and the roles of those in other professions and use this knowledge appropriately to establish and achieve collaborative relationship-focused care/services.
What is Team Functioning? (part of CIHC)
Teams bring their shared perspectives to cooperate, coordinate, and collaborate toward shared goals through shared decision-making.
Team functioning requires optimizing the efficiency and effectiveness of all members time, expertise and contributions.
What is Relationship focused care/services? (part of CIHC)
All members of a team will dynamically collaborate fostering purposeful relationships among and between care/service partners and persons participating in or receiving care/services.
What is Collaborative Leadership?
All members of a team value each others knowledge, skills and expertise, and acknowledge that everyone contributes different strengths and perspectives.
What is Team communication?
