Integrating care pathways
When planning to follow a patient pathway, students should ‘think integration’ how the pathway interlinks professions and the ways in which they work together.
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Think: health/illness - what is the nature of the illness/condition?
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Think: patient journey/care pathway - where will the health/social care journey take the person?
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Think: discipline - who is involved?
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Think: purpose - what is the reason for involvement?
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Think: practice - what are the specific interventions?
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Think: interconnection - what collaborative relationships exist? Do services/interventions merge?
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Think: reflection - what does this mean for the patient/client, for the carer, the practitioner, the service and for me?