Assignment:
Writing Assignment. Interprofessional Team in Health
Interprofessional Team in Health
Writing Assignment 3 - ONE PAGE.
a) Apply a SWOT analysis to creating an Interprofessional Team to improve healthcare delivery.
b) Create a team of at least two other professionals (e.g., law enforcement, psychologist, nursing, medicine, social worker)
c) Conduct a structured focus group regarding the opioid epidemic or violence. Develop an ice-breaker Write at least 5 focus group questions Conclude the focus group.
d) Report on the themes brought forward by your interprofessional team. What did you bring to the discussion that others in different disciplines not? What did those in different disciplines bring to the discussion that you did not? (ONE PAGE)
Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) format of analysis is utilized to be an efficient tool to determine the strengths and possibly reduced the challenges or difficulties faced by healthcare industry. The subject of this paper is to focus on the issue of violence as seen with an uprise in the rate of active shooting and any form of hate crime in society. Nate who has served in the military from 2012-2016 and Carlo who is a registered nurse actively working in the bay area gave their inputs in this paper. With the question thrown out "How is the crime rate in your area?" , both professionals attested to the increase in the crime rate in their respective areas of living and both also mentioned the recent shooting outside laurel district bar in east Oakland a few days ago.
Carlo, being a healthcare professional, specifically an operating room nurse, feels that violence is something that is learned. He explains that someone who has seen or experienced violence in the family during their childhood learns that violence projected to someone else is the only way to let anger out. While Nate who was a sailor for four years, suggested that the individuals who commit violence are victims themselves. Nate stated the story of his colleagues who became violent because they were traumatized due to being deployed in different war zones. The interviewers background being mental health care, have worked with children suffering from Autism Spectrum disorder as a registered behavior therapist and is now a graduate student. Both the interviewer and the professionals truly believe in further investigating the matter to find the actual problem that is the root cause of the violent behavior of individuals among communities. There were 5 focus group questions that were asked:
1. What violence related news have you heard lately?
2. How did you run across this news?
3. Where were you when that incident happened?
4. What are your emotions about the occurrence?
5. If your family was involved, how would you approach the situation?
Both professionals agree that violent behavior is experienced as an individual is growing. They could have experienced or saw these behaviors manifested by their parents, in a violent quarrel for example.
To sum up, the strengths of the focus group on violence was that the answers to the problem was attainable and realistic. The focus group had the same point of view even if they were coming from different backgrounds professionally. A weakness I observed was the insufficient data to understand the underlying cause of violence. It also would have been better to have interviewed someone with a background in mental health. Opportunities to participate and work together with other health care departments in attempt to find a solution will arise. The real danger lies in the lack of interest in the issue of violence within different societies and communities.
Attachment:- Opioid Epidemic and Interprofessional Education.rar