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2. What is the value of role clarity among members of the team?

Clarity would allow for effective communication among all team members, which I believe is very important in a clinical setting and even outside that. As a future physical therapist, I am tasked with helping my patient gain normal functioning. However, this is not the only aspect in their life. With the help of my team members, we are able to provide more holistic care, which is accomplished only if we know about the goals and actions of each person of the team. Clarity allows for this effective communication and through this, we are able to provide the best care for the patient. 

As a future physical therapist, the profession is known to be the movement experts in the medical field, who provides hands on care to their patient and clients by prescribing the right treatment interventions and exercises to restore function, adapt and compensate with the environment and condition, and prevent re-injury. 

As part of the professionals in the multidisciplinary medical field, role clarity is important to manage each and every roles and responsibilities of the team members to be able to work efficiently and effectively. 

Teamwork and communication is important to be able to provide efficient patient care. In a multidisciplinary medical field, each and every different specialities have their own roles and responsibilities as a team member and as a health care provider for clients/ patients. Much like in a medical field, our team’s members are consists of future Physical Therapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Pathologist, and Sports Scientist our role towards our profession is clear for all, we know our strengths in the professional field. We also acknowledge our integrity and excellence in practice. 

Sports Scientists are responsible for testing, training, nutrition and statistical analysis of the client’s performance. We have to administer different types of screening, assessments and tests to know the body condition of the client and their performance. With that, we could create a training program or give an exercise prescription based on the results from the tests. We can also collaborate with a nutritionist for a client's diet. This is important because a good diet can help provide energy that the client needs for the training, it’s one of the factors that helps enhance performance. As a sports scientist, we also have to monitor the client’s progress and performance, we can’t just say that they improve based on observation, we have to provide evidence such as descriptive statistics, graphs and evaluation based on normative data. It would help us to conduct a more thorough training program because we can see what skills we have to improve and maintain. 

2. What is the value of role clarity among members of the team?

In a team, we have our respective roles that we need to do and each of the team members should know their part, what they have to do and their responsibilities in the team. Role clarity is important because we have to know the assigned task for us and what we have to focus on. It will make the delegation of tasks much easier and to avoid confusion within the team. We have to know the boundaries, the limits of our role to avoid conflicts within the team due to role conflict. To make an effective team, all the members should know and understand their roles because what they do will impact how the team performs. The strength of one member would be a big help for the other team members, especially in collaborative works. We would know whom to ask or to consult when it comes to cases that are within their expertise. 

I have learned in the webinar that the roles and responsibilities of an occupational therapist is to communicate and collaborate with the team members, the patient and their family members. OTs would also assess the contexts of the client in terms of the person, environment and occupations model. As a healthcare profession, it is important for OTs to help the clients achieve their goals and support them along the way. Lastly, OTs help to educate, encourage and empower clients to the best of their ability. As mabuting OTs, we do not only say we care, but we demonstrate that we care for our patients. OTs are also responsible for providing their clients with opportunities and in a holistic approach in addressing the needs of their clients.

2. What is the value of role clarity among members of the team?

A client in therapy may have multiple needs from various expertise, thus role clarity is important in a team for them to identify whom to seek expertise when it comes to a certain aspect of the client’s condition or case. In the interprofessional team, role clarity also enables the team to maximize their full potential when it comes to planning effectively, implementing and evaluating goals and services for their clients. Also, role clarity would show understanding and respect towards the roles and responsibilities of other healthcare professionals in the team. Role clarity is also important to avoid role overlap or conflicts.

2. What is the value of role clarity among members of the team? 

2. What is the value of role clarity among members of the team?
Role clarity is especially important when working with a team with different aspects to each member. Role clarity is defined as how much each member understands their individual roles, their tasks and responsibilities, and processes at work. It is understanding of what one needs to do as well as what is expected of them. Furthermore, the understanding of roles is not just limited to the individual's role but the roles of other members as well. This is important as it contributes to the productivity of the group as a whole and without it, miscommunication, confusion, and additional stress can occur within the group.

a. What was your role? 

b. What actions did you make?   

c. Is there any specific sub-competency applicable to the situation?

d. What was the outcome?

2. What is the value of role clarity among members of the team?

1. As an Occcupational Therapist, my professional roles and responsibilities are to help my clients achieve their full occupational performance, no matter what disabilities or illnesses they have, following the client-centred approach, especially knowing that we have clients that possess different roles in life and engage in valued occupations. In additions, OTs utilized these occupations as therapeutic methods to rehabilitate, improve, or maintain skills needed by our clients for their engagements. As for the non-professional roles and responsibilities, we push for equality and occupational justice for the sake of the clients, and speak out of issues regarding inequality for the marginalized sectors of society, including OTs.

2. Knowing the roles and responsibilities, as well as the limits of the profession, shows how role clarity plays a key part for the IP team, since in each case, there are different aspects that needs to address and there would be some parts that would be addressed by 2 different professions, and it is important that knowing what you need to do and what you are asked to do is vital for the benefit of the client. Yes, the multidisciplinary field of medicine consists of different professions that approach the well-being of a client in different aspects, and it is important the the role of each member is understood well, so that confusions and mistakes would be avoid and that the track of addressing the needs of the client will go on smoothly until the client has reach its potential.