nr451 Week 5 Assignment i CARE Paper latest 2021

iCARE Paper Interprofessional teamwork in nursing has continued to play a central role in improving patient health outcomes such as reducing medication errors, morbidity and mortality rates, enhancing care coordination, reducing work burdens and related stress/ burnout, and increasing job satisfaction (Nissim, Malfitano, Coleman, Rodin, & Elliott, 2019). In this regard, this paper discusses interdisciplinary teams in the acute coronary care unit where I am currently working. The acute coronary care unit has an interdisciplinary team in which is devoted to the delivery of quality patient-centered care founded on compassion, advocacy, resilience, and evidence-based practice (EBP). The team function that needs improvement is shared-decision making among interprofessional teams within the acute coronary care setting. The paper will also discuss the nursing actions for each iCARE element in improving interprofessional teams in the unit, impact on the organizational culture/ unit, and potential impacts of patient outcomes. Compassion One compassionate action for improving team nursing is implementing compassionate collaborative care (CCC) in the unit. Compassion is recognizing and responding to others’ distress and suffering. In nursing, compassion and empathy are the key foundation of CCC. CCC is realized when healthcare professionals, patients, and families work together to create and deliver care guided by mutually developed and agreed-upon goals (Pfaff & Markaki, 2017). Without collaboration, compassion leads to uncoordinated care. Collaboration without compassion leads to depersonalized care which does not satisfy the unique patient’s psychosocial and emotional needs. Therefore, healthcare teams must practice CCC by sharing concerns, supporting each other to improve health, wellness, and resilience. With this, the interprofessional teams will achieve the quadruple aim to improve patient health, patient care experience, reducing healthcare costs, and supporting the wellbeing of providers. CCC is characterized by the promotion of respectful and caring patient-provider and provider-provider relationships, emotional support, open communication, and shared empowerment and decision-making among the interprofessional team (Lown, McIntosh, Gaines, McGuinn, & Hatem, 2016). The impact of CCC on the unit culture is that a safer and healthier organizational culture will be established characterized by interprofessional collaboration and communication among healthcare professionals and patients/ families (Lown et al., 2016). This will improve the reputation of the organization to the population, enhancing patient loyalty, and ultimately, increasing the organizational outcomes. The possible impacts of CCC on patient outcomes include increased patient satisfaction, adherence to treatment, quality of life, and reduced readmissions, medical errors, costs of care, and malpractice claims (Pfaff & Markaki, 2017). Advocacy An advocacy action that can interprofessional teams in nursing is influencing the development of healthcare policies that promoted interprofessional teams (American Nurses Association (ANA), 2015). Nurses can realize this by taking leadership positions within the healthcare unit or organizations, participating in the implementation of programs and policies such as standardized communication protocols, interdisciplinary rounding, and regular team meetings. Also, nurses can advocate for these policies through nursing organizations such as the ANA, medical organizations such as the American Medical Association, academic organizations, and/ or policymakers. The impacts of advocacy for interprofessional teams on the organizational/ unit culture include increased adherence to team-based protocols and policies, improved communication, collaboration, and coordination of patient care among nurses, physicians, administrators, and even patients and their families. The poss