Role Clarity Sample Clauses

Role Clarity. Providers expressed varying but clear perspectives on their roles. First, most respondents defined their role first as addressing health needs. Beyond this, most commented on their role in identifying red flags. For example: My own role is just to make sure I don’t miss it. That I can recognize the signs of suspected trafficking cases and I know what to do when I encounter those and getting people help and that they understand what is happening to them and getting them medical care and all their social needs meet. It is a hands-on approach with someone sitting across from me in the office. Beyond identification, providers expressed their role in creating a trauma-informed space for patients to be heard and tailoring care to meet a patient with their particular needs in mind. One defined their role to be a “constant presence” for patients: to be someone that earns their trust rather than demands it and is worthy of their trust and respect … And then I would say approaches that I use are as trauma-informed as they can be: trying to provide a sensitive interview [and] a confidential and safe space; knowing the warning signs and red flags; and knowing how to separate a young woman from her possible trafficker/abuser; and also just providing a space where she can disclose as much or as little as she chooses to; and offering good continuity of care; good follow-up and phone calls and so forth to let her feel that she is cared for. Providers often saw their role as connecting patients to social service organizations or engaging with existing organizations already supporting a survivor. For example: So, there are two roles: one is my role as provider to the patient in that exam room … two is my seeing the patient with the social service organization because I think this is not work you do on your own, and in fact I don’t accept patients directly on their own but only through social service organizations … In terms of my relationship to the patient, my responsibility is to provide care that is appropriate, facilitation that makes sense, that every patient is not the same or that every patient is traumatized or still traumatized (although most of them are). In terms of creating a practice space conducive to trust, one provider noted the approach to all patients should be the same: anyone coming into the healthcare system is probably at baseline a little nervous about what you’re going to find and what you’re going to say, and that people are perhaps more defensive o...