Interdisciplinary Team Flashcards
What are 2 reasons why people in rural and remote areas need an interdisciplinary team?
- Lack of resources
- Lack of services
- Lack of professional support
- Lack of knowledge
- Cultural safety: interaction between health professional and patients culture and power
- Confidentiality/ anonymity/ privacy/ accountability
- Increased travel/ distances
- Increased work load
What is a unidisciplinary team?
A. A team with one person on it
B. A team of many providers from a single background.
C. A team with only one interest
D. A team from a non-traditional background.
B. A team made up of many providers from a single background.
E.g. A traditional dentistry/pharmacy practice. All team members share the same professional skills and training, speak a common language of healthcare, and function in the same role within the group.
What is a multidisciplinary team?
A. A team made of many providers from a single background
B. A collaboration between a group of healthcare professionals, with less emphasis on their roles and more focused on contributing ideas as an overall problem solving collaboration.
C. A team involving more than one discipline involved in client care.
D. The participation of two or more disciplines in a clinical team who practice in an integrated approach to coordinate care and service delivery.
C. A team involving more than one discipline involved in client care.
- Utilise the skills and experience of individuals from different disciplines
- Each discipline approaching the patient from their own perspective
- Each team member conducts separate assessment, planning and
provision with varying degrees of coordination.
What is an interdisciplinary team?
A. A team where the patient is always the centre of the team.
B. A team with two or more disciplines practicing an integrated approach to coordinate care and service delivery
C. A team where decisions are made by consensus, with all parties having an equal voice in decisions.
D. All of the above
D. All of the above
What is the difference between a multidisciplinary team and an interdisciplinary team?
A in a MDT, health professionals work in conjunction with each other but act autonomously with one “leader” making treatment decisions.
In an IDT, communication involves different disciplines pooling their knowledge in setting team goals regarding patient care. Decisions are made collaboratively and the patient is the centre of all decisions.
A collaboration between a group of healthcare professionals, with less emphasis on their roles and more focused on contributing ideas as an overall problem solving collaboration is an example of which type of team?
A. Unidisciplinary
B. Transdisciplinary
C. Multidisciplinary
D. Interdisciplinary
B. Transdisciplinary
List 3 advantages of working in an interdisciplinary team.
- Heightened awareness and appreciation of one’s own discipline
- Understanding and respect for other disciplines
- Opportunities for cooperative research ventures
- Development of a mindset to work cooperatively
- Improved role satisfaction for practitioners
- Improved problem solving
- Improved access and overall care for patients
- Better continuity of care
- Improved patient efficacy in self-care behaviours
- Improved service productivity and use of resources
List 3 challenges of working in an interdisciplinary team.
- Differing status accorded to different disciplines and team members
- Unequal benefits of team participation
- Tensions related to team participation and personalities
- Different levels of personal commitments by team members
- Disparate jargon and technologies
- Differing language and terminology
- Differing knowledge base
- Physician dominance
- Role confusion and blurring
- Time commitments of the team members
- Interpersonal conflict
What are the 8 key elements of successful collaborative practice?
Assertiveness, Autonomy, Cooperation, Commitment, Communication, Coordination, Governance and Responsibility.
Why is cooperation in an IDT important?
A. To make shared decisions and relationships based on equality.
B. To express an individual’s views
C. To trust each other to act independently and competently.
D. All of the above
A. To make shared decisions and relationships based on equality.
Why is commitment important in an IDT?
A. To express an individual’s views.
B. It forms the basis of task-focused working relationships.
C. To trust each other to act independently and competently.
D. All of the above.
B. It forms the basis of task-focused working relationships.
Why is assertiveness important in an IDT?
A. It forms the basis of task-focused working relationships.
B. To make shared decisions and relationships based on equality.
C. Team members are able to express their views.
D. All of the above.
C. Team members are able to express their views.
Why is responsibility important in an IDT?
A. It makes team members are accountable for their own viewpoint and support decisions made by consensus.
B. It makes team members interact productively with colleagues from a range of disciplines.
C. If necessary, it facilitates conflict resolution in the interests of the clients and the team.
D. All of the above.
D. All of the above.
Why is communication important in an IDT?
A. To negotiate role boundaries, define the scope of practice and establish the ‘boundaries of authority’.
B. To trust other team members to act independently and competently.
C. A sense of joint ownership.
D. All of the above.
A. To negotiate role boundaries, define the scope of practice and establish the ‘boundaries of authority’.
Why is Autonomy important in an IDT?
A. To negotiate role boundaries, define the scope of practice and establish the ‘boundaries of authority’.
B. To maintain harmonious working relationships.
C. Team members can trust each other to act independently and competently.
D. All of the above.
C. Team members can trust each other to act independently and competently.
