Health care team in health assessment nursing, and community health
nursing
1. Team based Approach Members of the Health Care Team
- A team based model of care 1. Physicians- first point of contact
strives to meet patient needs for patients when they seek
and preferences by actively medical care.
engaging patients as full - Responsible for diagnosing and
participants in their care, while treating illnesses and injuries,
encouraging and supporting all prescribing medication and
health care professionals to tests and other diagnostic
function to the full extent of procedures.
their education, certification - They work with other members
and licensure of the healthcare team to
Health Care Team develop treatment plans and
- A complex and challenging provide ongoing care to
field that requires a patients.
multidisciplinary approach to 2. Nurses- essential part of the
ensure optimal patient healthcare team, providing
outcomes. patients with care and
- Healthcare team play a crucial attention throughout their stay
role in providing patient- in the hospital.
centered care - They work with physicians to
- Effective communication and administer medication, monitor
collaboration among team patients vital signs and provide
members are key components emotional support to patients
of success. and their families.
3. Pharmacists- responsible for
Primary Care dispensing medications and
- Promotes wellness and prevents ensuring patients receive the
disease. correct medications and
- Includes health promotion, dosages.
education, protection such as - They work closely with the
immunizations, early disease physicians and nurses to
screening and environmental provide medication therapy
considerations. Settings management and ensure that
providing this types of health patients understands how to
care include physician officers, take their medications
public health clinics, school correctly.
4. Physical therapists- responsible - Work with patients to ensure
for helping patients regain their that they receive the right
strength and mobility after an nutrition to support their
illness or injury. recovery and overall health.
- Work with patients to develop 9. Respiratory therapists- help
personalized treatment plans to patients with breathing
help them achieve their goals difficulties due to an illness or
and regain their independence injury.
5. Occupational therapists- help - Work with patients to develop
patients regain their ability to personalized treatment plans to
perform daily tasks such as improve their breathing and
bathing, dressing and cooking. overall health
- Work with patients to develop 10.Diagnostic professionals-
personalized treatment plans to includes radiologists,
help them regain their sonographers and laboratory
independence and improve technicians.
their quality of life. - Responsible for performing
6. Speech therapists- work with diagnostic tests and providing
patients who have difficulty accurate results to physicians to
speaking or swallowing due to aid in diagnostic and treatment
an injury or an illness. plans
- Help patients regain their ability 11.Administrative professionals-
to speak and swallow by include medical billers, coders,
developing personalized and receptionists.
treatment plans - They play an important role in
7. Medical social workers- ensuring that the healthcare
provides patients and their facility runs smoothly and that
families with emotional support patients receive the best care
and assistance with navigating possible.
the healthcare system.
- Work with patients to identify Common Nursing Specialties
their needs and connect with 1. Critical Care Nurses- provide
community resources and care to patients with serious,
services. complex and acute illnesses or
8. Dietitians- developing injuries that require very close
personalized nutrition plans for monitoring and extensive
patients. medication protocols and
therapies. Critical care nurses
most often work in intensive and postoperative care to
care units of hospitals. patients undergoing anesthesia
2. Public Health Nurses- work to or assist with surgical
promote and protect the health procedures by selecting and
of populations based on handling instruments, controlling
knowledge from nursing, social bleeding and suturing incisions.
and public health sciences. - These nurses work in hospitals
- They often work in municipal and outpatient surgical centers.
and state health departments. 7. Rehabilitation Nurses- care for
3. Home Health/ Hospice Nurses- patients with temporary and
provide a variety of nursing permanent disabilities within
services for chronically ill inpatient and outpatient
patients and their caregivers in settings such as clinics and
the home, including end of life home health care
care 8. Psychiatric/ Mental Health
4. Occupational/ Employee Nurses- mental and behavioral
Health Nurses- provide health health problems and provide
screening wellness programs nursing care to individuals with
and other health teaching, psychiatric disorders. Psychiatric
minor treatments and nurse work in hospitals,
disease/medication outpatient clinics and private
management services to offers.
people in the workplace. 9. School Nurses -provide health
- Focus is more on promotion and assessment, intervention and
restoration of health, prevention follow up to maintain school
of illness and injury, protection compliance with health care
from work related policies and ensure the health
environmental hazards. and safety of staff and students.
5. Oncology Nurses- care for - They administer medications
patients with various types of and refer students for additional
cancer administering services when hearing, vision,
chemotherapy and providing and other issues become
follow up care, teaching, and inhibitors to successful learning.
monitoring. Oncology nurses ADvance Practice Nursing Roles
work in hospitals, outpatient - An RN who has a graduate
clinics, and patients homes. degree and advanced
6. Perioperative / Operating Room knowledge
Nurses- provide preoperative
1. Nurse practitioners
-work in a variety of settings and
complete physical
examinations, diagnose and
treat common acute illness and
manage chronic illness, order
laboratory and diagnostic tests,
prescribe medications and
other therapies, provide health
teaching and supportive
counseling with an emphasis on
prevention of illness and health
maintenance and refer patients
to other health professionals
and specialists as needed.
2. Clinical Nurse Specialists-
practice in a variety of health
care environments and
participate in mentoring other
nurses, case management,
research, designing and
conducting quality
improvement programs, and
serving as educators and
consultants.
- Specialty areas include, but are
not limited to
Adult/Gerontology, Pediatrics
and Neontal.
