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A 5 page paper that defines and describes what an interdisciplinary team would look like in health care. The paper provides three examples and also comments on the advantages of this type of team to patients, health care providers and health care delivery institutions. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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health care institutions tend to be separated and even segregated according to their own specialty profession. This easily leads to not only duplication of services but to an even worse
situation, that being a lack of services or medical errors. The patient may be told one thing by one specialist and another thing by a different specialist. The overall outcome
of segregated services is lower quality patient care and lower patient satisfaction. In health care, an interdisciplinary team may be comprised of the primary physician, medical specialists, such as an
internist or cardiologist, registered nurses, other nurses, such as advanced nurse practitioners, physician or nursing aides, dieticians, pharmacists, social workers, psychologists and other types of therapists, such as physical, occupational
or language therapists (UNC, 2008). On top of any combination of these professionals, there are also medical records workers, health insurance plan employees, receptionists, office managers, hospital admission and dismissal
workers and so on (UNC, 2008). In the traditional organizational structure, it is all but impossible for any collaboration to occur between and among all these professionals. They are seldom
in the same place at the same time. This can easily be evidenced by visiting anyone who is in the hospital. When the attending physician drops by to see the
patient, the attending nurse is seldom in the room at the same time. The attending physician may refer the patient to a cardiologist who stops in for a minute or
two with the patient having absolutely no idea why that individual is standing at the foot of the bed, except cynical family members and patients do believe this person drops
in for seconds to a couple of minutes for the purpose of billing a very large fee to the patient. An interdisciplinary team that functions effectively can assure the
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