Communication - making it happen
This week's learning material.
This week you will start to consider the practical application of multidisciplinary care. The video will explain what this week is all about.
Whilst you work through the tasks in week 4 consider these focus questions:
- Who needs to know what?
- How might you to ensure the key messages from your role are understood and acted upon by the wider team?
- How is communication organised in your work environment currently?
Recommended reading
The NICE guideline on MND emphasises the importance of coordinated care. But it does not specify who should undertake the coordination. In the field different approaches are taken to coordination and more than one can be effective.
Processes which record patient wishes, such as advance care planning, may support coordination and help ensure a positive experience of care for the person living with MND. Health and social care professionals may find such documents useful to avoid asking repetitious questions of their patient and also to know the interventions either discussed, or carried out, by their MDT colleagues.
Essential reading for the week:
Motor neurone disease: a guide for GPs and primary care teams, MND Association, 2022
For more depth - here is a recommended reading list for the week:
A professional’s guide to end of life care in motor neurone disease. MNDAssociation, 2022
http://www.goldstandardsframework.org.uk/advance-care-planning
Carr, D. and Luth, E.A Advance Care Planning: contemporary issues and future directions.