67 Summary
As health and social care providers, we are a part of a complex health system. “No one profession can do it all” (Team Primary Care, 2024). Collectively and collaboratively, we all are responsible for ensuring patient safety and quality of care (Healthcare Excellence Canada, 2024).
A great resource for ensuring we uphold this is the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI). Over time, and based on much study, the IHI identified first the triple aim in 2007 and the quadruple aim in 2014. By 2021, a quintuple aim was identified as health equity (Nundy et al., 2022). A proposed sextuple aim is that of environmental sustainability (Alami et al., 2023). In combination, these six aims result in better population health for all while attending to responsible stewardship of limited resources.
Aims of Healthcare
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“Team-based approaches for health are so important to be able to provide all-encompassing care for our patients and clients. Health is really complex . . . So everything from where we live, what we eat, how we access education and healthcare, how we access food, to things like how we take our medications and how we’re able to exercise or be active. All of those different components impact our health. And so when providing care, it’s important that we look at things from a complete and holistic perspective. And as healthcare providers, we all have different strengths and different areas of focus. And when we can work together and put those pieces together, we can provide even better quality care as a team.”
Cheryl Olfert, nurse practitioner
