Interprofessional Communication Care

Communication is indeed a necessity to effectively provide care for patients. Reading Noah’s story from an ENT specialist point of view, there were a lot of communication barriers that could be avoided to prevent this tragedy from happening. I did notice that four of the sub-competencies of the Core Competencies for Interprofessional collaboration practice were not strictly adhered to on the part of the ENT specialist. These sub-competencies are RR6, CC1, CC2 and CC3. Clarification of each team member’s role in providing care to Noah was not communicated well. If there was clear clarification of roles by the ENT surgeon to the other team members Noah would have not been discharged earlier. There was no utilization of any effective communication