Discussion+Questions+for+Workbook

** The Health Educators Learning Partnership ** ** Saint John, NB, CANADA ** ** The patient portrayed in this video is a 44-year-old woman from Grand Manan, an island 1.5 hours off the coast of New Brunswick in Canada. She is divorced and lives with her two children. Finances are a challenge for her and she does not drive. She is a smoker and has had a cough for the last year. Over the 3 weeks prior to the appointments portrayed, she has been coughing up blood. ** ** Patients faced with this type of situation meet many different people and are challenged with navigating a healthcare system they may be unfamiliar with, and about which they may have little knowledge. ** ** Five individuals from different disciplines interact with the patient during the video with music as the backdrop. Review the interactions between the patient and these professions and consider the following questions: **
 * Interprofessional Teamwork: An Original Symphony **

1. What do you feel is the overall message of this video? 2. What is the significance of the music and instruments in this message? 3. Non-verbal communication has been described as being very powerful. Discuss the effects of the body language of the professionals in the video. Were their actions helpful to the patient? Was there contradiction in the verbal and nonverbal messages provided? 4. Identify the patient’s nonverbal communications to the professional staff. 5. Assuming that you were one of the professionals on this case, what additional points should be brought forward and discussed with the interprofessional team members? 6. Which professions, not represented in the video, would be able to contribute to a positive outcome for this patient? 7. Identify factors, which would create a barrier to interprofessional collaboration in this instance. 8. In your own profession, what role do you feel you would play in a similar case and how might interprofessional communication be improved? From Wendy August 30

Hi all, Here are my suggestions re the questions; I've changed the wording of some and added a couple. Creating the answer guide/workbook will be a great reason to have another HELP meeting! Do you think that in the workbook we will unfold more of Wendy's "story"? Judy (September 7)

The patient portrayed in this video is a 44-year-old woman from Grand Manan, an island 1.5 hours off the Bay of Fundy coast of New Brunswick in Canada. She is divorced and lives with her two children. Finances are a challenge for her and she does not drive. She is a smoker and has had a cough for the last year. Over the 3 weeks prior to the appointments portrayed, she has been coughing up blood.

Patients faced with this type of situation meet many different people and are challenged with navigating a healthcare system they may be unfamiliar with, and about which they may have little knowledge.

Five individuals from different disciplines interact with the patient during the video with music as the backdrop. As you are viewing the video, carefully watch the interactions between the patient and these professions. Following the video you may be asked to consider the following questions:

1. What is the overall message of this video?

2. Non-verbal communication is very powerful; even more so than the verbal message. Think about the body language of the professionals in the video. At what point, if any, were their actions helpful to the patient? Where did you notice contradictions in the verbal and nonverbal messages provided? What did the patient’s nonverbal communications to the professionals convey?

3. If you were one of the professionals involved with this patient (choose one of the professionals), what other issues might you want to discuss with her or what other questions you might want to ask?

4. Other professionals or would be on this patient’s health care team although they are not represented in this video. What other health professionals and/or community resources do you think would be involved?

5. Certain factors could realistically create barriers to interprofessional collaboration in this instance. Can you identify as one such factor?

6. Think of your profession. In a similar patient scenario how might you participate effectively and appropriately in an interprofessional healthcare team?

7. What issues may be brought to bear when the patent is truly a member of her/his health care team?

8. What was this patient’s primary need and at what point did any of the professionals recognize this?

9. During the video the patient’s heart rate was heard. What do you believe that the changing rhythms of her heart rate represented?

10. The music and the instruments in this video are important. The oncologist is backed by a piccolo, the nurse by a tuba (?), the respiratory therapist by a??, the pharmacist by a ??? and the clergy by an organ(?). What is the significance of the music and instruments in this video?

11. What is the meaning of the patient morphing into the conductor of the orchestra?