Question

How to introduce and share new daily practice supporting instruments as a team?

Problem description

Currently, for an individual member of just started up mobile team, there is surely a risk at being isolated without the possibility to rely sufficiently on tools that support daily practice and enable to share this practice as a team.

In several situations we deal with isolated persons, living alone and presenting symptoms and a behaviour that leads to social isolation.  We are in lack of an instrument that allows us to understand how a patient understands his own network.  We often find that these type of instruments are primarily intended to leave it to the professional to describe the network

Impact - effect

Consequences at several levels, for the team, the partners, the patient, the family:

1) Not meeting the requirements of a new practice, such as: the patient in the centre of the consultations, utilising all possible resources from and around the patient

2) In this way, the patient can never be the central focus of treatment or support

3) Missing the opportunity of bringing in the knowledge of each team member and new approaches of situations

4) The personnel is left alone

5) The patient will never be understood as a whole and with his own network: the family context, the connections, the emotional relations (how distant they may seem), the relationship with doctors and other professionals working around the patient

To do

To do: gathering the entire team around the network card.  Patient in the centre, and next everything that can be found around the patient.  The network card visualises conflictual relationships, where things went wrong with previous support and help.  Next, a jointly discussion as multidisciplinary team will follow regarding the best way to help the patient. The patient stays in the centre of this discussion. Each team member can deliver knowledge, vision and formulate proposals.  Such a network card enables to communicate and to reflect together.

The network card is an instrument that can be studied and learned by the team, or a smaller working group, and subsequently be used as an team “colloque” of consultation method in complex cases, for instance once or twice a month

De netwerkkaart is een instrument dat door ons team, of door een kleine werkgroep, bestudeerd en aangeleerd kan worden, om het vervolgens als overleginstrument te gebruiken bij complexe casussen.  Bijvoorbeeld 1 tot 2 maal per maand.

Hyperlink

http://www.mobileteamsconnecting.eu/bijlagen/H29%20-%20carte%20reseau%20(Lausanne).pdf

Theme

Starting up and further development/deployment of mobile teams

Topic

useful practice supporting instruments important for starting up and further development/deployment

Reference -  contact

Isabelle Tonnelier, infirmière EM Henri-Chapelle

Mobile team

2B

Project

RéSME

Intership abroad - place

Lausanne (SIM)

Date

February 2014