Healthcare & Nursing: A select sport
Ed Smith: ‘We can’t risk stars’ mental health by playing too much’
Gruelling summer proved to England selector that player welfare is critical
Apparently, cricket is a late arrival to team building around a strong core and leader and then using a selection strategy. According to Wilde (below*), cricket is playing catch up with baseball (1880) football (1990) and rugby in 2010s. Even with a squad and substitution some players can play too much with physical and mental impacts. Delivery of healthcare is no 'game' even though certain aspects are open to gamification. Everyone understands the need to stay 'fresh' and avoid injury (burnout too). Nurses are not the only professionals and team players to experience the paradox of a break. On the one hand it's like you've never been away; on the other it is great to pick up the threads of cases, caseloads, referrals old and new. Key here too is the cover provided by colleagues while you were temporarily 'off the field'.In health, the appliance of sport's 'win ratio' is not in dispute. We can test this! What is the satisfaction rating of the patient and family? But, let's broaden things to include the tax-payer and the patient's recovering, staying that way and becoming self-caring as far as possible. What has to be considered is the context, for example, palliative, end-of-life care and the aims of care."Eddie Jones was asked after England's quarter-final
win over Australia if he felt vindicated in his decision
to drop George Ford. He said, we didn't drop him, we
changed his role - welcome to modern rugby."
Nurses have no choice but to 'play'. Sometimes an astute manager will recognise that a specific staff member is best suited to deal with a specific referral, or re-referral even.
As you guessed it, 'selection' does not end there.
If Hodges' model is the compound field of play, then the selection of care concepts is the vital strategy to assure -
- person-centredness;
- integrated care;
- parity of esteem;
- reflective practice;
- critical thinking;
- a learning encounter;
- preventive approaches
- addressing health and other literacies ?
- teamwork ...
Yes, care assessment, evaluation can be a team effort. The significant care concepts (social determinants ... ), associations and priorities, risks and opportunities can be identified by an individual practitioner and also as a collective effort (group case discussion) and always with the patient / carer - guardian.
So, let Play commence - and congratulations South Africa!
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Simon Wilde, Cricket correspondent, The Big Interview. ‘We can’t risk stars’ mental health by playing too much’. The Sunday Times. October 27 2019. p.9.
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