[Answered] NR451 Week 5 Assignment: iCARE Paper

Directions

  1. Please review the infographic as way to guide you in getting started with your assignment: Developing an Assignment with Integrity
  2. View a short tutorial with tips for completing this assignment: iCARE Paper Tutorial
  3. Getting Started: Inter-professional teams are part of practice trends we see developing in all aspects of care delivery. Consider you own work environment (or recent clinical setting).
    • For this assignment, consider the concept of interprofessional teamwork and patient outcomes.
    • Look to your current workplace as an example. (If you are not currently employed, look to a past workplace or clinical practice area.)
    • Apply the components of the iCARE concept to interprofessional teams in a short paper. (Body of the paper to be 3 pages, excluding the title page and references page)
    • iCARE components are:
      • Compassion
      • Advocacy
      • Resilience
      • Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)
    • How could you contribute to an inter-professional team and patient outcomes through nursing actions of: compassion, advocacy, resilience, and evidence-based practice?
  4. Select one scholarly nursing article from CINAHL as a resource for your paper.
    • Additional scholarly sources can be used but are optional.
    • When searching in the CINAHL database, please limit your search word to one component of the paper you wish to emphasize, such as ‘Resilience’.  Searching for the term iCARE will not produce the results you need.
  5. Elements of iCARE paper
    • Title page
    • Below are the headings to be used for this assignment.
      • Introduction: (No heading needed here in APA) Explain the type of work setting you are discussing and whether interprofessional teams are currently present. If interprofessional teams are present, indicate a team function that could be improved. If interprofessional teams are NOT present, indicate what type of team you think might be possible in the setting.
      • Describe a nursing action item for each component below that could contribute to: interprofessional team support; how this might impact the culture of your unit or organization; and possible impact on patient outcomes.
        • Compassion
        • Advocacy
        • Resilience
        • Evidence-Based Practice
      • Summary: Include a summary statement of how iCARE components can support interprofessional teams and patient outcomes. Address how you may be able to influence this process of support for interprofessional teams overall in your unit or organization.
      • References: List any references used in APA format.

 

Solution

Interprofessional Team and I-CARE Components

Recent research points to the importance of interprofessional teams in healthcare. Also, the American Nurses Association identified the lack of interprofessional collaboration as one of the hindrances to RN scope of practice. Interprofessional teams are teams that comprise of various healthcare providers providing care in collaboration with their patients, families, communities, and caregivers (Müller et al., 2018). The parties involved are required to communicate and collaborate so as to deliver the highest quality of care possible. In my setting (long term care), interprofessional teams have gradually become a standard of practice..………….please follow the link below to purchase the solution at $10