A nurse is conducting a workshop on the importance of interprofessional collaboration. Which of the following is included in the tertiary prevention phase in interprofessional care?

Choice A reason: Providing transportation information is helpful but does not directly coordinate care, as it addresses access rather than securing services. Coordination involves arranging specific care delivery, so this action is supportive but less comprehensive, making it incorrect for demonstrating care coordination.
Choice B reason: Encouraging self-advocacy empowers the client but does not actively coordinate care, which requires arranging services or resources. This action is educational, not logistical, and does not ensure access to health services, making it incorrect for this context.
Choice C reason: Informing about providers who accept insurance is informative but not sufficient for coordination, which involves facilitating actual care delivery. Without arranging services, this action remains preparatory, making it less effective than directly securing an appointment, thus incorrect.
Choice D reason: Arranging an appointment with a mobile health clinic directly facilitates access to care, addressing rural barriers. This active coordination ensures the client receives services, aligning with case management principles for underserved populations, making it the correct demonstration of care coordination.

Choice A reason: Suggesting a support group helps the client address emotional resistance to the colostomy through peer support. This fosters psychological adjustment, reduces stigma, and promotes self-management by sharing experiences, aligning with evidence-based strategies to improve coping and adaptation in clients with new ostomies.
Choice B reason: Encouraging avoidance of negative feelings dismisses the client’s emotional response, hindering psychological adaptation. Accepting a colostomy requires processing grief and fear. Suppressing emotions delays coping, as psychological adjustment involves acknowledging feelings to integrate the stoma into the client’s self-image effectively.
Choice C reason: Instructing the partner to assume colostomy care undermines the client’s autonomy and delays self-management. Independence in stoma care is critical for psychological and practical adaptation. Dependency may hinder adjustment, as clients need to develop skills to manage their condition independently.
Choice D reason: Transferring to a rehabilitation facility is premature without trying in-hospital education or support groups. Most clients learn stoma care with nursing guidance. Transfer disrupts care continuity and may increase distress, failing to address emotional resistance directly, unlike peer support interventions.