MEDS 580 LECTURE 7 EXAM QUESTIONS
WITH DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS
Paradigm shift in history
moving away from the idea that outcomes are the result of individual efforts
Why has the acceptance of team-based healthcare been slow?
-In training, clinicians are given the idea that they are individually responsible for what happens
-Each member of the healthcare system is educated in isolation
-Interprofessional training is uncommon
What is a work team
A work group with specific characteristics that make it a team
Characteristics of a work team
- Shared team goal
- Shared responsibility for achieving said goal
- Defined membership
- Authority for taking action to achieve the goal
- Interdependency of team members
- Absence of larger sub-groups
- Accountability to a larger organization
Benefits of Teams
- Perform tasks faster than individuals working alone
- Enable individuals and organizations to learn
- Enable organization to retain lessons learned despite turnover of individuals (Practices are
codified within the operation of the organization)
- Enable innovation (with time, efficiency and accuracy is built and the team becomes better
equipped to function)
Risks of Teams
,- Social loafing (i.e. free loading or free riding)
- Degrading of decision making by hierarchy or personality
- Diminished creativity if the team is not managed well
What is a true team
- To provide clinical care over extended periods of time or for repeated, time-limited episodes
- Technical term and refers to teams that have all of the 7 defining characteristics PLUS stability
of membership over time
- Have clear leaders
- Provide clinical care over extended periods of time or for repeated, time limited episodes
What are template teams
- To provide clinical care for time-limited episodes
- Have the 7 characteristics and a clear leader.
- They DO NOT have stable membership
- Typically provide time limited episodes of healthcare like code teams, OB teams
- Changing membership defines template teams
- Every time the team provides clinical care, the roles and procedural routines remain stable/the
same
What is a knotwork team
- to provide clinical care for a particular patient's specific need
- Teams that come together temporarily in order to care for a patient; these teams have no clear
leader or stable membership
- Provide care for a specific need
- Think of physicians working together temporarily together like in a knot
What is a network team
- to provide information and support to network clinicians in providing care to patients
- "complexes of links between individuals and organizations, driven largely by the interests of
the parties and their recognition of the value of working together"
-Provide information to other physicians to aid patient care
,- A looser grouping than those of knotworks
- Have no characteristics of work teams (the 7 characteristics)
- They show cooperation and shared interests
- No defined leaders, membership, or responsibility
- Meet together to further individual goals, which will ultimately help patient care
Background about Smallpox and poxvirus
•Poxvirus
-Largest type of virus, almost visible with light microscopy
-Includes variola (smallpox), molluscum contagiosum, cowpox, monkey pox
•Many poxviruses are only present in animals
-These share common antigenic components with small pox which allow for the production of a
vaccine
•Smallpox virus is only found in humans
Information about smallpox infection
•Once inhaled, it reproduces in the respiratory tract
-Less efficiently spread through contact with dried virus on clothes and scabs
•Disseminates through blood (viremia) and lymphatic system
•After this initial infection, a more intense viremia occurs
-Spread to internal organs and skin, causing the characteristic "pocks" to erupt
Strategies used for smallpox eradication
-Direct vaccination of vulnerable populations utilizing national healthcare networks
-Actively seeking out cases and containing outbreaks
-Quarantine
-Increased efficiency of delivery (development of bifurcated needle)
•Cheap, provided more effective vaccines with less material, easy to use
-Use of jeeps and specialized vehicles to reach off road areas
Definition of Eradication
, permanently reducing the number of worldwide new infections to zero, with interventions no
longer needed
Four unique factors of eradication
-Human beings were the only known reservoir for the virus
-No asymptomatic carrier state existed
-An effective vaccine was available
-Vaccination of contacts resulted in prevention or modification of disease
Occupational interests from the definition from O*NET program
- Realistic: involves work activities that include practical, hands on problems and solutions
- Investigative: involve working with ideas and require an extensive amount of thinking
- Artistic: involve working with forms, designs, and patterns
- Social: involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people
- Enterprising: involve starting up and carrying out projects
- Conventional: involve following set procedures and routines
Role of Physicians
•Diagnose illnesses, and prescribe and administer treatment for people suffering from disease
•Examine patients, obtain medical history, order and interpret diagnostic tests, prescribe drugs,
perform surgery, manage chronic disease
Obtained either an MD or DO degree
Role of the Pharmacy
•Distribute prescription drugs to individuals for the treatment of disease in response to a
prescription
•Advise patients, physicians, and other healthcare workers on the selection, dosages, interactions,
and side effects of medications
•Monitor the health and progress of the patients they provide medications to ensure they are
using their medications safely and effectively
Values of the pharmacy
WITH DETAILED VERIFIED ANSWERS
Paradigm shift in history
moving away from the idea that outcomes are the result of individual efforts
Why has the acceptance of team-based healthcare been slow?
-In training, clinicians are given the idea that they are individually responsible for what happens
-Each member of the healthcare system is educated in isolation
-Interprofessional training is uncommon
What is a work team
A work group with specific characteristics that make it a team
Characteristics of a work team
- Shared team goal
- Shared responsibility for achieving said goal
- Defined membership
- Authority for taking action to achieve the goal
- Interdependency of team members
- Absence of larger sub-groups
- Accountability to a larger organization
Benefits of Teams
- Perform tasks faster than individuals working alone
- Enable individuals and organizations to learn
- Enable organization to retain lessons learned despite turnover of individuals (Practices are
codified within the operation of the organization)
- Enable innovation (with time, efficiency and accuracy is built and the team becomes better
equipped to function)
Risks of Teams
,- Social loafing (i.e. free loading or free riding)
- Degrading of decision making by hierarchy or personality
- Diminished creativity if the team is not managed well
What is a true team
- To provide clinical care over extended periods of time or for repeated, time-limited episodes
- Technical term and refers to teams that have all of the 7 defining characteristics PLUS stability
of membership over time
- Have clear leaders
- Provide clinical care over extended periods of time or for repeated, time limited episodes
What are template teams
- To provide clinical care for time-limited episodes
- Have the 7 characteristics and a clear leader.
- They DO NOT have stable membership
- Typically provide time limited episodes of healthcare like code teams, OB teams
- Changing membership defines template teams
- Every time the team provides clinical care, the roles and procedural routines remain stable/the
same
What is a knotwork team
- to provide clinical care for a particular patient's specific need
- Teams that come together temporarily in order to care for a patient; these teams have no clear
leader or stable membership
- Provide care for a specific need
- Think of physicians working together temporarily together like in a knot
What is a network team
- to provide information and support to network clinicians in providing care to patients
- "complexes of links between individuals and organizations, driven largely by the interests of
the parties and their recognition of the value of working together"
-Provide information to other physicians to aid patient care
,- A looser grouping than those of knotworks
- Have no characteristics of work teams (the 7 characteristics)
- They show cooperation and shared interests
- No defined leaders, membership, or responsibility
- Meet together to further individual goals, which will ultimately help patient care
Background about Smallpox and poxvirus
•Poxvirus
-Largest type of virus, almost visible with light microscopy
-Includes variola (smallpox), molluscum contagiosum, cowpox, monkey pox
•Many poxviruses are only present in animals
-These share common antigenic components with small pox which allow for the production of a
vaccine
•Smallpox virus is only found in humans
Information about smallpox infection
•Once inhaled, it reproduces in the respiratory tract
-Less efficiently spread through contact with dried virus on clothes and scabs
•Disseminates through blood (viremia) and lymphatic system
•After this initial infection, a more intense viremia occurs
-Spread to internal organs and skin, causing the characteristic "pocks" to erupt
Strategies used for smallpox eradication
-Direct vaccination of vulnerable populations utilizing national healthcare networks
-Actively seeking out cases and containing outbreaks
-Quarantine
-Increased efficiency of delivery (development of bifurcated needle)
•Cheap, provided more effective vaccines with less material, easy to use
-Use of jeeps and specialized vehicles to reach off road areas
Definition of Eradication
, permanently reducing the number of worldwide new infections to zero, with interventions no
longer needed
Four unique factors of eradication
-Human beings were the only known reservoir for the virus
-No asymptomatic carrier state existed
-An effective vaccine was available
-Vaccination of contacts resulted in prevention or modification of disease
Occupational interests from the definition from O*NET program
- Realistic: involves work activities that include practical, hands on problems and solutions
- Investigative: involve working with ideas and require an extensive amount of thinking
- Artistic: involve working with forms, designs, and patterns
- Social: involve working with, communicating with, and teaching people
- Enterprising: involve starting up and carrying out projects
- Conventional: involve following set procedures and routines
Role of Physicians
•Diagnose illnesses, and prescribe and administer treatment for people suffering from disease
•Examine patients, obtain medical history, order and interpret diagnostic tests, prescribe drugs,
perform surgery, manage chronic disease
Obtained either an MD or DO degree
Role of the Pharmacy
•Distribute prescription drugs to individuals for the treatment of disease in response to a
prescription
•Advise patients, physicians, and other healthcare workers on the selection, dosages, interactions,
and side effects of medications
•Monitor the health and progress of the patients they provide medications to ensure they are
using their medications safely and effectively
Values of the pharmacy
