Every Tuesday at a set time, our ICU head physician holds a rounding session with members of the interdisciplinary team on each patient in the unit. There are questions asked as to the status of the patient’s nutritional state, physical state, discharge planning and so forth. The nurse for each patient plays the part as the advocate for the patient since most are either intubated, confused, or without any family present. If the patient is coherent we walk into the patient room and they are involved in the conversation. A lot is accomplished during these rounding sessions as each member of the interdisciplinary is able to ask pointed questions to better care for the patient. “The ultimate purpose of teamwork and collaboration is to achieve high-quality patient care” (Masters, 2017, p. 336). Each establishment must ensure that, the nurses if not the general staff have current available data on
Every Tuesday at a set time, our ICU head physician holds a rounding session with members of the interdisciplinary team on each patient in the unit. There are questions asked as to the status of the patient’s nutritional state, physical state, discharge planning and so forth. The nurse for each patient plays the part as the advocate for the patient since most are either intubated, confused, or without any family present. If the patient is coherent we walk into the patient room and they are involved in the conversation. A lot is accomplished during these rounding sessions as each member of the interdisciplinary is able to ask pointed questions to better care for the patient. “The ultimate purpose of teamwork and collaboration is to achieve high-quality patient care” (Masters, 2017, p. 336). Each establishment must ensure that, the nurses if not the general staff have current available data on