A School-Age Patient Is Admitted to the Pediatric Intensive Care

Multiple Choice

A school-age patient is admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) , unconscious and with multiple traumatic injuries, after a skateboard accident that included a closed head injury. Many health professionals are involved in the patient's care and the scene is chaotic. The parents are extremely anxious and want to know what is happening. The case manager asks for an interdisciplinary team meeting to speak with the patient's parents. Which is the rationale for this meeting?

A) To allow for each specialty to independently describe their roles in the patient's care
B) To share information for care planning and to prevent priority conflicts, redundancy, and omissions in care
C) To allow the primary healthcare provider to take the lead in the decision making regarding the patient's care
D) To prevent the parents from trying to change the goals of care