A registered nurse has a patient assignment of caring for six postoperative patients in the orthopedic unit. The nurse completes the patient assessments, distributes medications, and pro-vides care to the patients as outlined within the job (position) description. Which term best de-scribes the nurse's behavior?
a. Interprofessional collaboration
b. Responsibility
c. Interprofessional rounding
d. Case management
B
Responsibility refers to the duties and activities that an individual is employed to perform. A po-sition description outlines a professional nurse's responsibilities in patient care and in participat-ing as a member of the nursing unit. Interprofessional collaboration involves bringing represent-atives of the various disciplines together to work with patients and families to deliver quality care. Members of the health care team round on patients and share patient information, answer questions asked by other team members, discuss patients' clinical progress, plan of discharge, and focus all team members on the same patient goals during interprofessional rounding. What is unique about case management is that clinicians, either as individuals or as part of a collaborative group, oversee the management of patients with specific case types.
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