INTERPROFESSIONAL CARE IN THE

COMMUNITY
RECORDS/REPORTS IN FAMILY HEALTH
NURSING PRACTICE
OBJECTIVES
1. Define interprofessional care and know its benefits.
2. Identify levels of health care in the community.
3. Identify government and non-government organizations.
4. Know the purposes and uses of records and reports in family health nursing
practice.
 WHAT IS INTERPROFESSIONAL CARE?

• Interprofessional collaboration (interdisciplinary

collaboration) is defined as "when multiple health
workers from different professional backgrounds work
together with patients, families, carers (caregivers),
and communities to deliver the highest quality of
care." It is based on the concept that when providers
consider each other's perspective. (WHO)
• Interprofessional teams of healthcare professionals
can include nurses, physicians, pharmacists,
therapists and others working together to deliver
the best quality of care in every healthcare setting.
Team-based care can help medical professional
use their time more effectively and help patients
access the most effective and efficient care.
BENEFITS OF INTERPROFESSIONAL CARE
BENEFITS OF INTERPROFESSIONAL CARE

1. It Empowers Team Members.

BENEFITS OF INTERPROFESSIONAL CARE

1. It Empowers Team Members.

2. It Closes Communication Gaps.
BENEFITS OF INTERPROFESSIONAL CARE
1. It Empowers Team Members.
2. It Closes Communication Gaps.
3. It Enables Comprehensive Patient Care.
BENEFITS OF INTERPROFESSIONAL CARE
1. It Empowers Team Members.
2. It Closes Communication Gaps.
3. It Enables Comprehensive Patient Care.
4. It Minimizes Readmission Rates.
BENEFITS OF INTERPROFESSIONAL CARE
1. It Empowers Team Members.
2. It Closes Communication Gaps.
3. It Enables Comprehensive Patient Care.
4. It Minimizes Readmission Rates.
5. It Promotes a Team Mentality.
BENEFITS OF INTERPROFESSIONAL CARE
1. It Empowers Team Members.
2. It Closes Communication Gaps.
3. It Enables Comprehensive Patient Care.
4. It Minimizes Readmission Rates.
5. It Promotes a Team Mentality.
6. It Promotes Patient-Centered Care.
PERSPECTIVES ON INTERPROFESSIONAL
COLLABORATION
How does interprofessional collaboration
impact care?

A patient’s perspective
LEVELS OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE
Rural Health Unit Personnel
The BHS (Barangay Health Station) is the initial unit,
which dispenses basic health care, i.e. maternal and
childcare, immunizations, treatment of simple medical
conditions, nutrition, family planning, sanitary health
care, emergency treatment and health education.
BARANGAY HEALTH CENTER AND ITS IMPORTANCE.
The Barangay Health Center is a community-based and
patient-directed organization. Its goal is to provide first
aid, maternal and child health care, diagnosis of social
diseases, and other basic health services to all the
members of the community it is serving.
Local Government Units

Functions

 Local authorities are multi-purpose bodies responsible

for delivering a broad range of services in relation to
roads; traffic; planning; housing; economic and
community development; environment, recreation and
amenity services; fire services and maintaining the
register of electors.
The Constitution of the Philippines recognizes the
importance of local governments. It provides as a policy
that "the State shall guarantee and promote the
autonomy of the local government units -- especially the
barangays -- to ensure their fullest development as self-
reliant communities."
Government Organizations
 DSWD
DSWD (Department of Social Welfare and Development) is
the primary government agency mandated to develop,
implement, and coordinate social protection and poverty-
reduction solutions for and with the poor, vulnerable, and
disadvantaged children, youth, women, older persons, person
with disabilities, families in crisis or at-risk and communities
needing assistance.
 Nutrition Council
National Nutrition Council, abbreviated as NNC, is an
agency of the Philippine government under the
Department responsible for creating a conducive policy
environment for national and local nutrition planning,
implementation, monitoring and evaluation, and
surveillance using state-of the art technology and
approaches.
 NNC Core Functions

1. Formulate national food and nutrition policies and strategies and serve as the policy,
coordinating and advisory body of food, nutrition and health concerns;
2. Coordinate planning, monitoring, and evaluation of the national nutrition program;
3. Coordinate the hunger mitigation and malnutrition prevention program to achieve relevant
Millennium Development Goals;
4. Strengthen competencies and capabilities of stakeholders through public education, capacity
building and skills development;
5. Coordinate the release of funds, loans, and grants from government organizations (GOs) and
nongovernment organizations (NGOs); and
6. Call on any department, bureau, office, agency and other instrumentalities of the government
for assistance in the form of personnel, facilities and resources as the need arises.

 Population Commission
THE POPCOM MANDATE

The Commission on Population (POPCOM) is a government agency

mandated as the over-all coordinating, monitoring and policy making
body of the population program. It is the lead agency promoting
population activities.
LEGAL MANDATE
The Commission on Population was created by virtue of R.A. 6365
enacted on
August 15, 1971 an act establishing a national policy on population and
amended by
P.D. 79, section 3, on December 8, 1972 is hereby created under the
office of the President. It is the central policy making, planning and
coordinating body for the population program.
On March 24, 2003 Malacaňang issued an Executive Order 188 attaching
POPCOM to DOH. The issuance of EO 188 calls for unified, consistent, and
integrated implementation of the population program, which will lead to
consistency of policies, and programs particularly in population
management, reproductive health and family planning.
Non- Government Organizations
Few examples of Non-government Organizations:
1. ChildHope Asia.
An international, non-sectarian organization advocating for the cause of street
children throughout the world.

2. Habitat for Humanity Philippines (HFHP)

A non-profit Christian ministry working to help build responsible and self-reliant
communities by enabling Filipino families in need to acquire affordable, decent, and
durable homes.

3. Pro-Life Philippines
 Promoting a culture of life.
4. Philippine Red Cross
The PRC provides six major services: Blood Services, Disaster Management
Services, Safety Services, Community Health and Nursing Services, Social
Services and the Volunteer Services.

5. Greenpeace Philippines

Greenpeace Philippines is an active volunteer organization that campaigns for

their mission to save the environment. Some of their campaigns include
stopping climate change, saying no to genetic engineering, and defending the
ocean.
6. Haribon Foundation -Haribon Foundation is an organization built in 1972 that
commits to helping through nature conservation. The organization is known with their
services such as conserving sites and habitats, saving species, encouraging sustainability,
and empowering people.

7. Philippine Animal Welfare Society (PAWS) - PAWS is a registered nonprofit

organization which is dedicated to protect and promote humane treatment of all animals.
The organization helps rehabilitate animals by finding them new homes. It also actively
campaigns against animal fights and using animals for entertainment.

 8. World Wildlife Fund Philippines (WWF) - Focusing on nature, World Wide Fund for
Nature – Philippines (WWF-Philippines) is focused on addressing the issues on the
Philippine environment as they also want to live in harmony with nature. Aside from this,
they also have a mission on addressing the problems on the climate, the oceans, species,
food, and water.
9. Volunteer Youth Leaders for Health-Philippines

VYLH Philippines is a service-oriented organization that aims to empower the Filipino Youth
for health. It was established in July 2009 that promotes awareness on the prevention of birth
defects, awareness on newborn screening, and support for orphan disorders.

10. United Nations World Food Programme

World Food Programme (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization which addresses the
issue of hunger. Yearly since its establishing in 1961, WFP is helping 80 million people in about
80 countries. Aside from alleviating hunger, they also focus on other issues including: climate
action, disaster risk reduction, gender equality, nutrition, and more.
11. World Vision Philippines - Improving the lives of more than 120,000
children in the Philippines, World Vision aims to help Filipino youth through
health and nutrition, child participation, education, livelihood, disaster
response, and values formation. It is a Christian humanitarian org that helps
children, families and communities to alleviate poverty and social injustices.
12. Gentle Hands - Gentle Hands Inc. is an established child and youth welfare
agency as the front lines of rescue and rehabilitation of the medical, social and
educational needs of at-risk children and youth. At present, Gentle Hands has
over 65 babies and children in stages of rehabilitation, adoption, and
reunification.

13. Gawad Kalinga - Empowered by people who are driven by faith and
poverty, Gawad Kalinga Community
 Records in Family Health Nursing Practice
A. Importance and Uses
All professional persons need to be accountable for the performance of their
duties to the public.
Records are the practical and indispensable aid to the doctors, nurses, and
paramedical personnel in giving the best possible service to the clients.
• Reports summarize the services of the person or the personnel and of the
agency.
• A report can either be an oral or written exchanges of information shared
between caregivers of workers in a number of ways.
PURPOSES OF RECORDS
•Provides staff member, administrator, or any other members and not
only members of the health team with documentation of the services
that have been rendered and supply data that are essential for
programme planning and evaluation.
•To provide the practitioner with data required for the application of
professional services for the improvement of family’s health.
•Records are tools of communication between health workers, the family,
and other development personnel.
 •Effective health records shows the health problem in
the family and other factors that affect health. Thus, it
is more than a standardized sheet or a form.
•A record indicates plans for future.
•It provides baseline data to estimate the long-term
changes related to services
 B. Types of Records and Reports
1. Cumulative or Continuing Record- is the compilation of information.
This is found to be time saving, economical and also it is helpful to review the
total history of an individual and evaluate the progress of a long period. (e.g.)
child’s record should provide space for newborn, infant and preschool data.

The system of using one record for home and clinic services in which home
visits are recorded in blue and clinic visit in red ink helps coordinate the services
and saves the time.
2.Family Record- all records which relates to the members
of the family. It gives the picture of the total health
services rendered to the family as a whole and
individually. It also serves to be a very important tool in
giving effective and economic health services to the family
as a whole.
 FILLING OF RECORDS

Different systems may be adopted depending on the purposes of

the records and on the merits of a system. The records could be
arranged:
1. Alphabetically
2. Numerically
3. Geographically and
4 . With index cards
REPORTS
Reports can be compiled daily, weekly, monthly,
quarterly and annually. Report summarizes the services of
the nurse and/ or the agency. Reports may be in the form
of an analysis of some aspect of a service. These are
based on records and registers and so it is relevant for the
nurses to maintain the records regarding their daily case
load, service load and activities. Thus the data can be
obtained continuously and for a long period.
 PURPOSES OF WRITING REPORTS

1. To show the kind and quantity of service rendered over to a specific

period.
2. To show the progress in reaching goals.
3. As an aid in studying health conditions.
4. As an aid in planning.
5. To interpret the services to the public and to other interested agencies.