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Interprofessional Communication in Healthcare: A Study Guide, Exams of Advanced Education

Princeton UniversityAdvanced Education

This study guide covers key aspects of interprofessional communication in healthcare, focusing on the roles of various healthcare professionals, including pharmacists, doctors, nurses, and therapists. It explores the importance of effective communication and collaboration in ensuring patient safety and improving healthcare outcomes. The guide also addresses potential barriers to communication and collaboration, such as low self-confidence, cultural differences, and lack of clear definitions and supportive systems. It highlights the characteristics of effective collaboration, including sharing, partnering, interdependency, and power, as well as the association of communication and teamwork for patient safety, emphasizing leadership, mutual support, situation monitoring, and communication strategies. Useful for students and professionals in healthcare fields.

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2024/2025

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PHA 6111 LEC CHAPTER 2 EXAM
STUDY GUIDE
is vital among healthcare professionals
and their patients - ANSWER Communication
is at risk when healthcare providers are NOT
communicating effectively - ANSWER Patient safety
Lack of communication results in misinterpretation of
information, lack of critical information - ANSWER Medication Errors
helps build teamwork and positive work environment. - ANSWER Effective
communication
increases awareness among team members of their professional knowledge and skills,
which leads to developing improvement in decision-
making. - ANSWER COLLABORATION
Product-oriented to a patient-oriented profession - ANSWER Pharmacists' Role in the
Healthcare Setting
most performed activity
alongside management, patient care, public health
services - ANSWER Dispensing
not widely practiced in the country - ANSWER Patient counseling
Recent development -patient care services -
medication counseling, blood pressure and glucose
monitoring, medication adherence monitoring,
provision of daily dose packs, drug information,
smoking cessation, counseling lifestyle modification. - ANSWER Pharmacists' Role in
the Healthcare Setting
Conduct free medical checkup, health promotion,
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PHA 6111 LEC CHAPTER 2 EXAM

STUDY GUIDE

is vital among healthcare professionals and their patients - ANSWER Communication is at risk when healthcare providers are NOT communicating effectively - ANSWER Patient safety Lack of communication results in misinterpretation of information, lack of critical information - ANSWER Medication Errors helps build teamwork and positive work environment. - ANSWER Effective communication increases awareness among team members of their professional knowledge and skills, which leads to developing improvement in decision- making. - ANSWER COLLABORATION Product-oriented to a patient-oriented profession - ANSWER Pharmacists' Role in the Healthcare Setting most performed activity alongside management, patient care, public health services - ANSWER Dispensing not widely practiced in the country - ANSWER Patient counseling Recent development -patient care services - medication counseling, blood pressure and glucose monitoring, medication adherence monitoring, provision of daily dose packs, drug information, smoking cessation, counseling lifestyle modification. - ANSWER Pharmacists' Role in the Healthcare Setting Conduct free medical checkup, health promotion,

and education in their communities - ANSWER Pharmacists' Role in the Healthcare Setting

**- Adaptation of Clinical Pharmacist

  • Focus from dispensing to patient's drug related** problems, medication errors, ADRs, drug information system, therapeutic management and planning **- Expanding Role in Antimicrobial Stewardship Program
  • Public Health
  • Pharmacovigilance** - ANSWER Pharmacists' Role in the Healthcare Setting Doctors Nurses Medical Laboratory Scientists Radiologic Technologies Therapists and Rehabilitation Specialists Volunteers Traditional Medicine Practitioners Occupational therapists Physical therapists Respiratory therapists Speech therapist Volunteers Traditional Medicine Practitioners - ANSWER Roles of Other Healthcare Professionals key members of the healthcare team - ANSWER Doctors **- Primary Care doctors
  • Specialists** - ANSWER Doctors - key members of the healthcare team **- Clinic coordinators
  • Administrative medical assistant**

coordination of individual actions, cooperation in planning and working together, sharing goals, planning, problem-solving, decision-making, and responsibility. - ANSWER Collaboration

- It is a kind of communication in which people communicate their feelings, ideas, emotions, and information face-to-face with each other or through medium of communication. - It can be verbal or nonverbal form. - ANSWER Interprofessional Communication in Healthcare a. Low self-confidence b. Shyness c. Dysfunctional internal monologue d. Lack of Objectivity e. Cultural differences f. Discomfort in sensitive situations g. Negative perceptions about the value of patient interaction - ANSWER Potential Barriers to Pharmacist Communication Avoid interpersonal communications in most situations, including interactions with patients, physicians, or other health care providers. - ANSWER Low self-confidence and Shyness May limit your ability to listen effectively as you focus on your thoughts rather than on what other says. These internal conversations often result in prejudging others or coming to a hasty conclusion about the perceived problem and suggested solutions. - ANSWER Dysfunctional internal monologue While taking care of patients, you may be tempted to take on patients' emotional problems. Many patients who you will serve to have multiple, complex problems, and you may be enticed to help them resolve emotional as well as physical issues. You get so involved that you carry their emotional burdens as well. It is probably more appropriate to refer patients to professionals who can assist them with these issues - ANSWER Lack of Objectivity May put tremendous pressure on you to "say the right thing" and cause you to avoid

interacting with others. Experience has shown that people tend to blow these types of situations out of proportion, making issues larger and more difficult than they are - ANSWER Cultural differences and Discomfort in sensitive situations Many pharmacists believe that talking with patients is not a high-priority activity. They may perceive that patients neither expect nor want to talk with them. Thus, they are reluctant to approach patients. - ANSWER Negative perceptions about the value of patient interaction

- Lack of clear definitions for the collaborations so that effective communication among stakeholders can occur. - Lack of a supportive culture at the public, institutional, professional, and agency levels so that broad support can be gleaned among colleagues. - Lack of supportive regulatory and statutory system so that clear articulation of professional responsibilities can occur. - Lack of economic incentives to reward collaborating professionals who seek the benefits of collaboration to outstrip any investment in its costs. - ANSWER Barriers to Interprofessional Collaboration - Lack of educational program that encourage health professionals to work collaboratively. - Lack of understanding by patients about the benefit collaborative care, which leads to decreased demand for collaborative care - Lack of communication technology to allow partners to communicate with each other easily - ANSWER Barriers to Interprofessional Collaboration

  • SHARING
  • PARTNERING
  • INTERDEPENDENCY
  • POWER - ANSWER FOUR Key Characteristics of Effective Collaboration

ANSWER MUTUAL SUPPORT

**- Review on going team performance

  • Adjust, adapt, and relocate tasks and responsibilities as required** - ANSWER SITUATION MONITORING **- Share information with other team members
  • Communicate using objective language, corrective terminology, and structured** processes or tools, where available - Acknowledge communication and check for correct interpretation (closed -loop communication) - ANSWER COMMUNICATION