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Remote Collaboration and Evidence-Based Care

Hi! Everyone, I am —–, and today I will present my topic, remote collaboration, and evidence-based care. Remote collaboration is a significant healthcare tool that enables the delivery of care coordination to patients who cannot commute from rural areas or have difficulty with transportation to healthcare settings. This assessment considers the patient health scenario of gender dysphoria in a young patient who lives in a rural area and requires remote collaboration among interdisciplinary teams of different healthcare settings.

Furthermore, I will discuss evidence-based care plans for improving the safety and outcomes of affected individuals. Later, I will discuss how a particular evidence-based practice model was applied to develop patient care plans. Lastly, I will highlight the most valuable and relevant evidence in the decision-making process of the care plan. Before I begin with the evidence-based care plan, I will delve into the patient’s health scenario for remote collaboration.

Evidence-Based Care Plan and Patient Safety

Remote Collaboration for a Patient with Gender Dysphoria

The patient scenario involves a case of a 25-year-old transgender male who belongs to a rural area with limited access to healthcare services. Based on behavioral health evaluation, his healthcare professional, Dr. Smith, diagnosed that he was suffering from gender dysphoria. The doctor further informs that the patient expressed interest in obtaining hormonal and surgical treatment for this issue.

Gender dysphoria is a medical condition of conflict experienced by patients between their assigned sex at birth and gender identity. This condition leads them to seek hormonal and surgical interventions to experience the gender identity of their desire. Dr. Smith collaborates with an interdisciplinary team of mental health professionals, endocrinologists, and a nurse. The multidisciplinary team suggests a further detailed and in-depth evaluation to confirm the diagnosis and choose the best treatment for the patient. 

Evidence-Based Care Plan

To improve health outcomes and patient safety in the mentioned patient scenario, the following evidence-based care plan is devised:

• Healthcare professionals must coordinate to provide this care plan and improve health outcomes. They should thoroughly assess the patient’s medical and mental history using standardized protocols such as the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) (Dora et al., 2020). This is necessary as patients seeking approval for medical treatment of gender dysphoria (GD) may experience this behavior secondary to other conditions, such as depression and anxiety (D’Angelo et al., 2020). 
• Upon correct diagnosis, the healthcare provider must engage with the endocrinologist to provide suitable hormonal therapy to the patient (Sansfaçon et al., 2019). Furthermore, they must be monitored and evaluated occasionally to address the side effects, such as mood disorders, aggressiveness, and other dilemmas due to trajectory transitions (Sansfaçon et al., 2019).
•  After hormonal therapy, the patient must also be educated on effective psychosocial functioning and behavioral changes (Kaltiala et al., 2019). For this purpose, they must be provided adequate training or educational resources to take care of their transition phases and coordinate with healthcare through telehealth services on any adverse impacts of the therapy (Russell et al., 2021). 

Further Information

The additional information or data related to the patient’s social circle, support from family, religious and cultural perspectives, and financial status could have helped craft a more suitable care plan for the patient. As gender dysphoria may be neglected in some families due to religious and cultural concerns, the transition process for patients would have been made easier if these pieces of information were available (Verbeek et al., 2020). 

Ways to Use and Apply Evidence-Based Practice Model

Healthcare providers must develop care plans based on substantial evidence using evidence-based practice models (Speroni et al., 2020). I implemented the Johns Hopkins Nursing Evidence-Based Practice Model (JHNEBP) for the above-mentioned evidence-based care plan to gather authentic and relevant evidence. This model is based on a three-step procedure involving identifying the problem, collecting the evidence on the problem and its solutions, and the translation phase. The last phase integrates and implements the proposed evidence, fol