Discussion 5B Interprofessional 

Identify your future APN role and the setting in which you plan to practice.  Discuss how you can incorporate interprofessional collaboration in your advanced practice setting.  Who would be the healthcare professionals that you would anticipate to be part of your team.  

Identify ways that using interprofessional collaboration in your setting can improve care in that setting.  What are any barriers that could impede successful interprofessional collaboration in your future role?

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Being a child from the 70s, I survived all the crazy things me and my siblings did without supervision, without helmets, seat belts, and without regard to our safety at all. Both my parents worked, and we grew up on a small self-sufficient farm in rural Maine. We never wore shoes, and ran around chasing cows, pigs, horses, and chickens. Itàsome kind of miracle we didn get poisoned, serious infections, amputations from farm equipment or run over by tractors, wild horses, dump trucks or hay wagons. So, I could say `turned out fine3ort of.

I often find myself in situations with patients where I am assessing and trying to think how I can better understand a person in order to be part of the solution and not the problem. The availability heuristic stuck me as being poignant, people often relate themselves to other people when making an assessment or a judgement. Example: When I start an IV some people have so much anxiety about the needle, like they have never been injured before in any way, not a scratch or a cut or a bruise and they behave as if they are going to die. I find myself thinking, how can they be so sensitive, how can anyone in this world be that sensitive, the world is a hard place to live and there is nothing easy or soft about it. Then I remember that I have been through a lot in my life, and I am built from different stock. We are all different from one another in so many ways, why can someone be more sensitive than me? It is an arrogant dismissal of an alternative evidence-based view as the article made clear. This also relates directly to the availability heuristic. I was spanked as a child and more. Am I tougher because of it? Yes, but did I suffer because of it, yes! The mental anguish of receiving excessive anger and punishment when you¥ a child can be detrimental for years and years long after one becomes an adult. It took me years to gain enough confidence to try things I might fail at. I was afraid to challenge myself for fear of failure of undesirable repercussions. I think this had a lot to do with ðanking/r something like it.

Do I think spanking should be banned? Hereàthe thing, banning spanking sets a precedent and any kind of discipline can come under scrutiny if spanking is banned. I agree that it should be considered harmful as any kind of violence can be, but having said that, I wouldn want anyone telling me how to raise my child and I think many people would feel the same way. Some people might think that putting your kid in time out is bad too, who is to say? This debate could go on for ever.

I too know of people living into their 90s after eating bacon and eggs every day, smoking every day, and drinking scotch at night, true story. I sum that up to good genetics and luck, I do not view it as obtainable for me or 95% of the rest of the population. I also know that my high school friends continued to smoke after my mother died of lung cancer when I was only 17. Was it the addiction that kept them smoking or was it the denial that t won happen to themàThis is a complex subject, and it will be discussed for at least another 100 years. Humans are arrogant by nature; how else can we survive in our present state of being? Itàa bit depressing.