Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal

Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal
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Professional Capstone and Practicum Reflective Journal
Interprofessional Collaboration
Interprofessional collaboration is where two or more health workers from dissimilar professional backgrounds work together with caregivers, communities, patients, and their families to deliver high-quality care. Healthcare providers contribute their unique knowledge and skills in a cooperative atmosphere to improve clinical and patient outcomes. Interprofessional collaboration is not a new concept. Various healthcare agencies have repeatedly stressed the importance of different healthcare professionals working together to enhance care for individual patients and community populations (Green & Johnson, 2015). In addition, partnerships between clinicians present opportunities for effective implementation and improvement of hand hygiene programs.
A robust hand hygiene program in any healthcare institution requires the cooperation of all healthcare professionals. A collaborative culture and effective technological and communication strategies are critical to improving hand hygiene compliance among healthcare workers. Health hygiene is considered an effective preventive measure against healthcare-associated infection, a primary cause of mortality and morbidity in healthcare centers. Interprofessional collaboration in hand hygiene programs is bound to reduce preventable healthcare infections, decrease morbidity and mortality rates, and improve hand hygiene practices among carers (Shobowale et al., 2016).
The healthcare sector entails an array of healthcare facilities, clinicians, insurers, and purchasers of healthcare services, all functioning in different configurations of networks, groups, and independent practices. Some of these actors are based in the private sector, others in the public sector, while others operate as not-for-profit practices. The healthcare sector also entails both voluntary and governmental regulators. All these different organizations and individuals are collectively referred to as the healthcare delivery system, and collaboration and systems planning are incidental to their operations. In addition, America's healthcare system is faced with the challenge of combating preventable healthcare-associated infections, which increase associated morbidity and mortality rates and the cost of treatment.
Healthcare-associated infections have drawn increasing attention from patients, clinicians, insurers, and regulatory bodies because of the increasing severity of illness and cost of treatment. As a result, Healthcare delivery and clinical systems are gradually reversing to hand hygiene to combat cross-transmission of infection in healthcare institutions. Hand hygiene protocols have been shown to reduce healthcare costs, mortality, and morbidity rates arising from preventable hospital-acquired infections.
The ethical considerations in healthcare include respecting the patient's choices, acting in the best interests of the patient, valuing the patient's beliefs and culture, acting lawfully with all patients, being trustworthy and honoring patient commitments, ma...