Proposing an Evidence-Based Care Plan
To develop an evidence-based care plan that is going to best enhance the safety and outcomes of the patient in the provided case study, the care must be comprehensive. First and foremost, there should be completion of an intense workup that will confirm gender dysphoria while ruling out other pathologies. Mental health professionals, endocrinologists, mental health nurses, and surgeons will consult and provide a multidisciplinary approach to this decision. Once such a diagnosis has been determined, one can discuss the best available options in hormonal and surgical treatments, further customized to the patient’s desires and goals (Boswell & Cannon, 2022). This structured approach helps in guiding the evidence-based and patient-centered plan of care, which ensures that the outcomes for the individual are improved by the care.
Utilizing an EBP Model
A model of evidence-based practice (EBP) was widely applied in formulating the care plan of the present subject. In so doing, I integrated the best available evidence from research, clinical expertise, and patient values with regard to making decisions on effective and safe treatments. By so doing, the care plan is based on grounded and scientifically verified practices proven to improve patient outcomes. It has helped me critique and synthesize the relevant evidence as I designed a plan of care that would directly fit the specific needs of the patient yet, at the same time, be grounded within best practices in gender dysphoria treatment (Boswell & Cannon, 2022). I particularly sought evidence that could have shaped its care plan, such as studies that had sought to demonstrate the efficacy and safety of hormonal and surgical treatment for sex reassignment. This evidence would inform relevant decisions on caring for the patient regarding possible benefits, harms, and long-term consequences of the interventions. There was also pertinent evidence of a multidisciplinary team’s engagement in caring for a patient with gender dysphoria. This evidence could inform the delivery of such interventions so as to be in accordance with these being the latest best practices in providing gender-affirming care.
Benefits and Strategies
Remote collaboration has many advantages for the design and delivery of care to those facing gender dysphoria. Of these, one main gain that can be stated to occur here is the provision of diversity in experts in a field regardless of geographical difference so as to improve delivered care to the patient. Such remote collaboration of teams will also facilitate an effective exchange of knowledge and competencies at hand to lead toward better-informed choices and outcomes for the patient (Cupp, 2020). Remote collaboration would further enable healthcare professionals to surmount such barriers of distance and even time zones in order to ensure that the patient receives timely, coordinated care delivery.
Challenges affecting interdisciplinary collaboration among workers in a remote team may be addressed by instituting a number of strategies. One of the employee management strategies is that regular meetings at various times can be employed to encourage teamwork and shared responsibilities among workers in a team so as to establish communication and collaborative means by which tasks would be performed (Cupp, 2020). In one of the texts, it was eluded that setting clear communication protocols and utilizing telehealth technologies could streamline the process of collaboration and effective sharing of information. Essential strategies to foster effective interdisciplinary collaboration in a remote team are the setting of clear goals and expectations, the definition of roles and responsibilities, and the imparting of trust and respect among team members. These are ways through which implementation of these strategies can optimize healthcare professionals in remote cooperation on a global level, patients with gender dysphoria in receiving quality care.
In summary, employing an evidence-based care plan that is to be synthesized through the application of an EBP model in working documents and integrating available and pertinent evidence at this time through remote collaborative capability with strategic practices has been aimed at ensuring the delivery of improved safety and more optimal outcomes for patients dealing with gender dysphoria (Lundqvist et al., 2023). It achieves patient-specific, evidence-based care in actual practice delivered in a collaborative manner, rendering comprehensive, patient-centered care for which treatment approaches are congruent with best practices for transgender care.
References
Boswell, C., & Cannon, S. (2022). Introduction to nursing research: incorporating evidence-based practice (6th ed.). Jones & Bartlett Learning.
Cupp, A. L. (2020). Population-based nursing: concepts and competencies for advanced practice (3rd ed.). Springer Publishing Company.
Lundqvist, C., Brady, A., & Galli, N. (2023). Wellbeing and quality of life in elite sports: Towards evidence-based approaches for psychological health promotion and proactive support. Frontiers Media SA.