The IDT or Resident Care Team (Resident Care Conference)

Resident Care Team

IDT

---Here is a picture of ''Your Care Team,'' [IDT], or ''Interdisciplinary Team.'' The team is made up of physicians, nurses, dietitians, activity therapists and other staff. As far as your stay in Laguna Honda Hospital I feel this is the best way to optimize your time while here. It is where the rubber meets the road. Your Care Plan will be developed for you based on your clinical's team assessment of you.

---Your needs + preferences are taken into consideration along with the list of medical needs with which you present. You are allegedly residing in a unit that best meets your clinical needs. Your active participation with your care planning is encouraged, valued and will help make your care plan more effective. Your family or other relations involved in making decisions regarding your care if you have that need, called surrogate decision makers, may also contribute to your care planning. You or you and your surrogate will be notified by your social worker of all quarterly team meetings.

---Your Care Team will meet with you regularly to evaluate your appropriate level of skilled nursing care and clerical needs. If the assigned Care Unit is no longer the optimal place to address your needs, you may be relocated to a more appropriate unit. Your cooperation and input within this process is greatly appreciated.

---I always thought that the following would be a huge-plus to the care of the patient. That would be if someone from your Care Team was assigned to be your ''Go -To'' person. He or she will meet with you on a regular basis until no longer necessary, especially as you begin your stay at LHH. He/she will answer questions and help to orient you to your new surroundings and to keep the tenets of your last Care Team Conference (provided you had one,) going. He or she will keep  your next RCC fresh in your mind. He or she jots down requests or questions that you may have over the course of the three months whose answer needs to come from your Care Team. He or she is responsible for ''how things are going for you...on the unit (and the hospital) overall.'' The ''Go -To'' person is NOT in place as I think it should be.

ORIGINALLY WRITTEN IN OLD HOSPITAL

THE BETTER YOU KNOW YOUR TEAM or YOUR TEAM KNOWS YOU, THE BETTER WILL BE THE RESULTS.

THE BETTER YOU KNOW YOURSELVES IS THE BEST PLACE TO BE!