Question
How can we optimise the multidisciplinary team work, taking into account the limited number of hours of availability of the psychiatrist?
Problem description
During a week, a psychiatrist is 6 hours available for our team. Many clinical decisions are taken by other team members
Impact - effect
The fact that many clinical decisions are taken independently or based on telephone advice from the psychiatrist, requires an approach with a fixed structure, supported by the use of instruments that can support and motivate clinical decisions. For example, we are already working with consultations within a fixed structure, interventions in pairs followed by case consultation in pairs after the interventions (but not always multidisciplinary).
To do
The multidisciplinary teamwork and the generalist vision for employees to further optimize. There are already a lot of instruments and structures developed that can lead to appropriate clinical decisions, such as the use of the CTRS-Scale (risk taxation), including the corresponding flow chart for actions, the drafting of a clear behavioural suicide protocol (determining suicide and risk level), the use of the work plan to structure clinical objectives and the multidisciplinary intervision regarding this issue at team meetings, the therapeutic work cases containing useful tools related to specific problems.
Can the presence of the psychiatrist during the interventions of MTA deliver an added value (more frequent oral consultation, joint therapeutic discussions, joint telephone contacts)? Is it possible to involve and to integrate MTA team members in the client consultations of the psychiatrist?
Hyperlink
http://www.mobileteamsconnecting.eu/bijlagen/H34%20-%20multidisciplinaire%20teamwerking%20(ERIC).pdf
Theme
Starting up and further development/deployment of mobile teams
Topic
multidisciplinary team functioning
Reference - contact
Bregwin Vantieghem, Marleen Lierman
Mobile team
2A
Project
Ieper-Diksmuide
Intership abroad - place
E.R.I.C.
Date
April 2014
