Group 7 - Pla 2 Ipe 2022

Interprofessional Education
Post-Lesson Activity 2: Roles and Responsibilities

Group Number: Group 7 Date: August 30, 2022
Group Members (Last Name, First Name):
● Capatan, Jessica Camille (SLPB)
● Caresosa, Claire Lucille (OTA)
● Chua, Maria Therese (SPS)
● Go, Carlo Benjamin (PTA)
● Ico, Ayhessa Ann (PTC)
● Jose, Algeo (PTB)
● Lachica, Ronald Matthew (SLPB)
● Montenegro, Alias Jireh (OTB)
● Precilla, Jana Gabrielle (SLPB)
● San Miguel, Alyssa Irene (PTA)
● Santander, Nicholai Marian (PTC)
● Tamayo, Athena Dominique (PTB)
● Torre, Maria Alissa (OTA)
General Guidelines:
● With your team, watch this recorded meeting on roles and responsibilities (LINK:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Eev-6d5ZanJTicIXI1HG28RE8q9B6q83/view?usp=sharin
g). Acknowledging the roles of different professionals in quality patient centered care,
note the contributions of each member, issues or conflicts they might face, and ideas
that can help sof these issues.
● After watching the video, answer the guide questions on the succeeding section. Kindly
answer these questions with no less than 250 words.
● Submit your output on August 30, 12MN, through our course site.
● Upload your team meeting video recording through PLA 2 Meeting Recording
For the students enrolled in the Interprofessional Education Course of University of Santo Tomas- College of Rehabilitation
Science (AY 2022-2023). This is intended to be used for the aforementioned class. No parts of this document shall be used for
other purposes without informing and obtaining consent from the author or the course coordinator
Guide Questions:
1. What were the Roles and Responsibilities of each member of the team?
After watching the video, I learned a lot about the various roles and
responsibilities of the members of the rehabilitation team in ALRES. First, Sir Marius, a
Chief Physical Therapist, shared that he sees children as young as two weeks up to
teenagers. He teaches them early interventions, Physical Education, motor and sports
skills, wellness, and fitness. He is also in charge of teaching Physical Therapy Interns
with patient handling and the likes. As Chief PT, it is also his responsibility to supervise
operations of the department and monitor the performance of the members of the
department. Second, Teacher Audrey from the Occupational Therapy department shared
that she also handles younger and older kids specifically on cases involving gross motor
delay, communication delay, communication problems, and sensory processing
problems. OTs also specialize in feeding kids with feeding concerns, ranging from 2 to 8
years old, and other distinct areas are also targeted. Third, Teacher Shawn from the
Speech Pathology department focuses on cases such as language delays, language
disorders, hearing impairment, phonological disorders, apraxia, among others. She sees
children as young as 2 years old up to 20 years old. Moreover, according to Teacher
Audrey, they have shared clients among departments.
Above all these individual roles and responsibilities, it is also important to know
where these roles and responsibilities would fall in a team. As I learned from the video,
the members of the rehabilitation team consist of different healthcare professionals with
their own different specializations or scope of practice. For PTs, they are more focused
on working with patients to improve their movement by strengthening muscle groups. As
for OTs, they are the ones responsible for improving patients’ fine motor skills needed for
their day to day life. Lastly for the SLPs, they are on the other hand more focused on the
speech, language, and communication in children and adults. Although having these
specific tasks, there are still overlapping roles among them which they acknowledge by
working together as a team. Partnering, collaborating, and through mentoring each other
help them as a team in creating a more holistic treatment plan for the patients. With this,
they can learn from each other and become better professionals and individuals as well.
2. What are some of the issues / conflicts that the team faced? How were you able to
resolve this conflict?
The team shared that one of the issues/conflicts they faced was the members'
overlapping goals/interventions, which was a very common occurrence in the clinics.
There could be occasions where the interventions done would look the same and seem
repetitive to the parents, and IEPs overlap one another.
In situations like this, the team overcomes it through communication and
teamwork, where each team member would share their goal and interventions and then
collaborate to create a plan that addresses the patient's needs. It is important to know
the similarities and differences in goals and be clear when it comes to the roles in the
rehabilitation team. In cases wherein IEPs overlap, it is important to know your role and
the priorities of the patient, because it would affect the overall intervention process.
Furthermore, the goals and target area must be thoroughly discussed to efficiently target
the skills through each member’s expertise and avoid having similar activities when
targeting certain skills of the patient. Though overlapping is seen as a conflict, it is also
considered beneficial to the patient and team members as they would be able to observe
how the child exhibits certain skills in different contexts and it would also encourage the
child to perform these skills in different settings.
3. Can you discuss any areas where there is an overlap in their professional roles?
Rehabilitation professionals from different departments have shared clients

wherein they work together to achieve a common goal. Sometimes their roles overlap in
the process as they provide similar services from other professionals; although their
interventions may be somehow similar, each department offers an intervention that
targets a specific goal within their scope of practice. Some examples of these are the
overlapping of roles of occupational therapists and physical therapists in which
occupational therapists attend to kids with gross motor delay while physical therapists
teach gross motor skills, another would be the overlapping of roles of occupational
therapists and speech language pathologists in attending to children with
communication delays/problems. Although there were no sports therapists present in the
video recording, we can also say that sports therapists can contribute to the overall
wellness and functioning of the children as they can identify the demands of the sport/s
or physical activities that one wishes to engage in and be able to improve their
performance and abilities accordingly. Moreover, physical therapists can aid in ensuring
the safety of the client by screening for physical/ movement limitations and what can be
done to address this in terms of preventing injury and possibly promote recovery if
applicable. Thus, these professions can work together to create proper program design,
corrective exercises, and aid in skill development depending on the client’s goals and
needs.
All three professionals work hand in hand teaching the kids about wellness, and
independence to maximize their optimal function. Interdisciplinary training among the
different rehabilitation professionals is necessary to gain more knowledge about the
specialties of each professional and how these can be complemented by one’s role.
Using an interdisciplinary approach would entail collaboration and communication
among the rehabilitation professionals. This would enable the rehabilitation professionals
to be clear with their specific roles so their manner of carrying out their plan would target
the primary tasks of their roles. The differences and overlap of the roles would enable
each professional to gain new perspectives and knowledge regarding their practice.
using the findings of each professional.
With communication, these overlaps are seen as more beneficial rather than a
mishap, as the rehabilitation professionals are able to prepare and discuss interventions
and session goals to prevent redundancy of similar activities to make the client's
progress more efficient. They are also able to discuss with other rehab professionals
precautions regarding a specific client, wherein they could create an alignment of goals
making the plan more cohesive which helps in reaching the goals of the client.
4. What can be done to address overlapping roles?
Since the Rehabilitation Sciences work in similar ways, overlapping roles cannot
be avoided, but it is not something that should impede the team’s collaboration.
Communication is especially important so the team members can properly relay to the
team what areas they specifically specialize in, maximizing their skills for the team.
Before executing tasks, we think having meetings with the team to delegate tasks is
also important so everyone has a clear idea of the responsibilities each team member
has for that session, giving transparency as to who does what part of the job.
Moreover, in the discussion, none of the professionals took the overlapping roles
in a negative way. In fact, they were even happy as their goals can be carried over to
different sessions and their kids will generalize the targeted skills better. We think that
based from this, one way to address the overlapping roles is to be open to the
perspectives of other rehab professionals so we can divide the areas better and also
know how much of a priority you really are - that means if you are targeting the same
skill, it’s better to determine which therapist can go first to streamline the therapy and
also understand when you need to step back in the meantime.
Lastly, when collaborating with other professionals who have similar goals, the
first step we need to take is learn about their professions thoroughly. In the course of
our training, we tend to become accustomed to our own professions and eventually
generate naive perceptions on the roles of the other health care team members. To
exercise effectively in a primary health care team, one should have a thorough
comprehension of the members’ contributions: their limitations and strengths, areas
of expertise, and educational backgrounds. Every provider should have a deep basis
for respect and demonstrate trust for one another in order to fulfill their responsibilities
and serve the best kind of care for the patient.
5. What are the characteristics of Interprofessional collaboration?
Interprofessional collaboration is when healthcare professionals from different

fields work together to reach a common goal and that is to give the highest quality of
care for their clients. What we believe makes the team achieve that goal is having
effective teamwork. While watching the recorded meeting, the following are the
characteristics of interprofessional collaboration the group believe should have:
● Good Communication: It is important for us to improve and focus on how we

communicate with other members of the medical team. In interprofessional
collaboration, the members should be able to communicate, share their insights
and opinions which they think is best for the client. Moreover, good
communication should include listening and openness to others’ opinions. If
everyone in the team will participate and take part in the communication process,
the group will be able to address the problems of the client effectively, as well as,
the group will be able to solve misunderstandings that may arise in the future.
● Goal-oriented: Being in an interprofessional collaboration, we all have a goal of

giving our patients a good quality of life. In whatever choices we make or
whatever medical opinions we have, we always have to stick to that goal. The
members of the team should be able to set goals based on what we aim to
achieve for our client. Moreover, being goal-oriented gives the members a clear
direction on what to do to aim for a certain goal.
● Trust and Respect: It is important that in a team, we learn to trust each other,
their decisions, and their medical opinions because they are well-aware of what
they’re doing. With this, members also show that they respect each other’s
differences, which will increase collaboration and productivity. Having mutual
trust and respect is essential so that we can be comfortable in opening up and to
build rapport with each other.
● Being cooperative and showing initiative: Showing initiative shows good

leadership that will highlight cooperation and working together efficiently.
Moreover, being cooperative would make the members of the team more
committed in doing their respective tasks and contributions to the group.
● Accountability: In every group set-up, accountability is an important value to

withhold as individuals in an interprofessional collaborative team. Accountability
pressures each member to do good and make the right decisions for the welfare
and safety of our respective clients. This premise alone teaches us to learn how
to lean on each other. When we are in a place of comfort wherein we know that
our members strive only for the common good, accountability breeds a sense of
trust among uniquely different individuals in a team.
● Empowerment: No man is an island. The essence of interprofessional

collaboration in the field of healthcare service is that professionals, no matter
their place in the healthcare delivery hierarchy, have their own set of limitations
and weaknesses. Hence, we don't hoard all responsibilities for ourselves. In
reality, there is no such thing as a jack of all trades. We let our members do what
they are meant to do. Learn to trust and lean on each other for us to grow in our
respective fields. Empowerment optimizes our team's ability to deliver our
services properly to our clients. This value helps cultivate a sense of growth in
each one of us. Remember, there is no "I" in a team. My downfall will be the
deterioration of the whole team. Hence, we work together and collaborate to
reach our fullest potential.
In general, being in an interprofessional collaboration should also have willingness to

learn new things, new learnings, new approaches that will be helpful for other clients in
the future. Being open to these and keeping consistent communication makes the dream
team a reality.
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Date/ Time: August 28, 2022 / 7:00 PM onwards

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Interprofessional Education

Post-Lesson Activity 2: Roles and Responsibilities

Rehabilitation professionals from different departments have shared clients

4. What can be done to address overlapping roles?

Interprofessional collaboration is when healthcare professionals from different

● Good Communication: It is important for us to improve and focus on how we

● Goal-oriented: Being in an interprofessional collaboration, we all have a goal of

● Being cooperative and showing initiative: Showing initiative shows good

● Accountability: In every group set-up, accountability is an important value to

● Empowerment: No man is an island. The essence of interprofessional

In general, being in an interprofessional collaboration should also have willingness to

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