14 Lab Exercise: Roles and Scenarios
LAB EXERCISE: ROLES AND SCENARIOS
OBJECTIVES
For this lab exercise you will:
- Explain roles and responsibilities of other providers and how the team works together to provide care, promote health, and prevent illness (IPEC, 2011, RR4).
- Use the full scope of knowledge, skills, and abilities of professionals from health and other fields to provide care that is safe, timely, efficient, effective, and equitable (IPEC, 2011, RR5).
- Use unique and complementary abilities of all members of the team to optimize health and patient care (IPEC, 2011, RR9).
INSTRUCTIONS
- As a team or as individuals, decide which healthcare professions should be involved the patient’s care in each scenario. (Hint: not all roles need to be involved for each case).
- Then, write a rationale for why each healthcare profession is needed for each scenario.
SCENARIOS
Scenario #1: 18-year-old Elite gymnast with a femur fracture from a motor vehicle accident who is ready to resume training.
- Circle the Healthcare professions that would be involved in this patient’s care: Dietitian, Athletic Trainer, Hospital Administrator, Nurse, Speech Language Pathologist, Pharmacist, Physical Therapist, Physician Assistant, Social Worker, Public Health Specialist, Occupational Therapist, Other__________________
- What healthcare professions would provide care to the person who was in the motor vehicle accident? Why?
Scenario #2: 16-year-old soccer player who sustained a second game-related concussion who is having headaches and focusing issues at high school.
- Circle the Healthcare professions that would be involved in this patient’s care: Dietitian, Athletic Trainer, Hospital Administrator, Nurse, Speech Language Pathologist, Pharmacist, Physical Therapist, Physician Assistant, Social Worker, Public Health Specialist, Occupational Therapist, Other__________________
- What healthcare professions would provide care to the person who has sustained multiple concussion? Why?
Scenario #3: 25-year-old with bilateral below-the-knee amputations due to an individual explosion device (IED) who is ready to train for the wheelchair basketball team in hopes of participating in the Paralympics.
- Circle the Healthcare professions that would be involved in this patient’s care: Dietitian, Athletic Trainer, Hospital Administrator, Nurse, Speech Language Pathologist, Pharmacist, Physical Therapist, Physician Assistant, Social Worker, Public Health Specialist, Occupational Therapist, Other__________________
- What healthcare professions would provide care to the person who was the victim of an IED? Why?
Scenario #4: 42-year-old person without health insurance that requires a kidney transplant due to multi-organ failure related to a viral illness.
- Circle the Healthcare professions that would be involved in this patient’s care: Dietitian, Athletic Trainer, Hospital Administrator, Nurse, Speech Language Pathologist, Pharmacist, Physical Therapist, Physician Assistant, Socia