About the Literature Compendium
National Center conducted an extensive scoping review of the interprofessional collaborative practice and interprofessional education (ICP/IPE) literatures from 2008 through 2013. The initial search yielded 1176 published manuscripts that were reduced to 496 when the inclusion criteria were used to refine the selection of published manuscripts. This fully searchable compendium includes full citations and access through PubMed to those manuscripts, organized by article content, country of study, healthcare system, methods, number of professions involved, sample size and study setting.
What’s in the Literature Compendium?
- 254 papers on assessment or evaluation of an interprofessional education intervention
- 133 papers on interprofessional collaborative practice research
- 32 papers describing the development of programs
- 42 papers assessing instruments together with programs
- 6 papers describing instruments 14 papers assessing or evaluating instruments
- 12 papers presenting models or competencies
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New nurses' experience of their role within interprofessional health care teams in mental health
This qualitative study explored new nurses' experience of their role within interprofessional health care teams in a mental health organization in Canada. Semistructured interviews were conducted with 10 nurses. Content analysis revealed two main...
Mar 14, 2014
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Building capacity in Australian interprofessional health education: perspectives from key health and higher education stakeholders
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A substantial literature engaging with the directions and experiences of stakeholders involved in interprofessional health education exists at the international level, yet almost nothing has been published that documents and...
Mar 14, 2014
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Communication barriers to patient education in cardiac inpatient care: a qualitative study of multiple perspectives
Growing evidence in a variety of health-care settings supports the need to strengthen nurse-physician communication and interprofessional collaboration to optimize patient-health outcomes. The objective of this study is to explore communication...
Mar 14, 2014
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Enacting 'team' and 'teamwork': using Goffman's theory of impression management to illuminate interprofessional practice on hospital wards
Interprofessional teamwork is widely advocated in health and social care policies. However, the theoretical literature is rarely employed to help understand the nature of collaborative relations in action or to critique normative discourses of...
Mar 14, 2014
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Retrospective case report: evaluation of pain in a child with pervasive developmental disorder
PURPOSE: To describe how a nurse and a physical therapist in an interprofessional (IP) school-based clinic collaborated to meet the needs of a child with pervasive developmental disorder-not otherwise specified, with atypical classroom behaviors and...
Mar 14, 2014
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Perceptions versus reality: a qualitative study of students' expectations and experiences of interprofessional education
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Interprofessional education (IPE) has been gaining traction in post-secondary institutions. Many schools introduce IPE early to their health professional students, often in the context of a large-scale event in Year 1. This paper...
Mar 14, 2014
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Interprofessional collaboration among junior doctors and nurses in the hospital setting
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Evidence suggests that doctors and nurses do not always work collaboratively in health care settings and that this contributes to suboptimal patient care. However, there is little information on interprofessional collaboration (IPC...
Mar 14, 2014
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Improving teamwork, trust and safety: an ethnographic study of an interprofessional initiative
This study explored the perceptions of staff in an interprofessional team based on a medical rehabilitation ward for older people, following the introduction of a service improvement programme designed to promote better teamworking. The study aimed to...
Mar 14, 2014
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The policy and the practice: early-career doctors and nurses as leaders and followers in the delivery of health care
There are increasing calls, from a range of stakeholders in the health sector, for healthcare professionals to work more collaboratively to provide health care. In response, education institutions are adopting an interprofessional education agenda in...
Mar 14, 2014
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The dimensions of interprofessional practice
Caring for patients requires an interprofessional approach. The purpose of this article is to reflect on a specific experience of interprofessional working encountered while working as a nurse in clinical practice. A critical analysis and evaluation...
Mar 14, 2014
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