Chir892 Clinical Chiropractic Of Clinical Assessment Answers

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1. 2a. As described in 2a of Clinical and Professional Chiropractic Education: a Position Statement, an evidence-based approach to the rational clinical interventions for the patient is important. The case study, physical examination, diagnosis, report’s findings is important to plan the treatment and management of the patient. The case study and medical history is important, as it is the core of patient care. It provides the information about what happened to them, personality, unique circumstances, current medications and past illness. The entering into patient data is important that provide information about the patient health history and a chiropractic assistant gather the information like first appearance of symptoms, existence of disorder, previous treatments. This is helpful for the case evaluation to determine the type of examination procedures that would be best suited or the patient and related contradictions. For example, in a severe chronic condition, the chiropractic assistant meets the patient and studies the patient case to discuss his recommendations for treatment plan or referral. In chiropractic, the physical examination is important to rule out specific conditions. After the physical examination, the chiropractor can focus and pay attention to the areas of complaint. For example, a patient with spine pain has to go through x-rays to focus on the area of complaint. It also decides variety of assessments by chiropractor like palpitation, range of motion, reflex testing, orthopaedic and neurological tests that require adequate focus. Accurate Diagnosis and diagnostic imaging is also important for the comprehensive and specific care plan. The discovery of the patient’s problems is crucial to provide problem-oriented therapy and in the specific area of complaint. Report findings and management plan in chiropractic is important as high-quality imaging and digital access to radiology imaging aid in the professional interpretation by specialists. Diagnostics is important to fully understand the musculoskeletal system and provide proper treatment intervention for positive patient outcomes. The evidence-based approach to these above clinical interventions is to penetrate and transform this profession to a level where they can strengthen their practice curricula.

2b. In the healthcare system, patient handoffs and numerous interfaces takes place that require accurate communication and collaborative care. Without it, patient safety is at risk due to misinterpretation of information, lack of critical information, poor clinical handoffs and overlooking of vital parameters of the patient. Medication errors can also happen due to lack of effective communication, as there is failure to communicate about the patient’s condition.. For this, effective communication is crucial to overcome faulty and incomplete information exchange that might lead to errors and ignore the clinical discrepancies and red flags. Structured communication can serve the purpose of assisting chiropractors to make effective clinical decisions and take required actions. It provides openness and trust that enable chiropractors to work in partnership with the patients under their care.

2c. The public health focus is to improve the quality of life and health of the population through prevention measures and treatment of the disease. For this, it is important to take into consideration the knowledge of the population regarding the preventive measures about a particular infection and how these measures are being practiced in daily life. For example, the knowledge of possible preventive measures can be helpful in preventing the infectious diseases and promote healthy lifestyle practices. The knowledge of preventive measures among the population is important to assess the incidence of a disease, physical and mental health conditions and provide tailored health promotion programs to take preventive initiatives.

2. The practice styles outlined above in the position statement does not comply with the Chiropractors Code of Conduct and Chiropractic Board of Australia March 2014. According to Professional Behavior point 9, there should be standards behavior by chiropractors that warrants respect and trust in the community. According to point 9, there should be professional boundaries and clear separation between the chiropractor’s profession to meet the patient health needs and his or her personal views and feelings. This promotes appropriate patient dependency and working under professional boundaries. According to point 3.4-confidentiality and privacy, under Chiropractors Code of Conduct, Australia, it is stated that chiropractors have the legal and ethical obligation to protect the confidentiality and privacy of the patients by withholding their personal information and releasing only when required in law or public considerations. To ensure standards of care, it is important to maintain patent’s privacy, confidentiality in their practice setting. Under the point 7.2 in the code of conduct, chiropractors should perform good practice to risk management that ensures patient safety. Therefore, it is important for the chiropractors to avoid continuous exposure to radiations that might have harmful and long-term health effects like mutation.

3. As the chiropractic profession is transforming from transitional models of care to evidence-based, it will have a huge impact on the chiropractic identity.For example, the biopsychosocial model of health for acute and chronic pain in spine and bones is important to assess the warning signs of psychological conditions like fatigue, back pain, headaches, mood changes and stress (9). The chiropractic identity is influenced in a way where they have to consider the psychological parameters to understand the spine pain with a biopsychosocial approach. There would be changing in the screening tools and collaborative healthcare encompassing the social factors that affect health. In the broader context, there will be a change in the chiropractic practice where pain was considered an elusive condition and traditional model of care, however, now chiropractors have to consider variables in pain including physiological, biological and psychological parameters. There would be a huge impact on chiropractic identity as it provide a holistic care approach in the pain management like patient-centred care through biopsychosocial model of health. Concisely, due to shifting of model of care from traditional to evidence-based, there would be inclusion of mind and body by chiropractors to fully manage pain and address the disease in the chiropractic service delivery.

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