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Informal interprofessional learning: visualizing the clinical workplace

Informal interprofessional learning: visualizing the clinical workplace

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Submitted by National Center... on Mar 14, 2014 - 11:14am CDT

Daily collaboration of senior doctors, residents and nurses involves a major potential for sharing knowledge between professionals. Therefore, more attention needs to be paid to informal learning to create strategies and appropriate conditions for enhancing and effectuating informal learning in the workplace. The aim of this study is to visualize and describe patterns of informal interprofessional learning relations among staff in complex care.

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Changes in student attitudes toward interprofessional learning and collaboration arising from a case-based educational experience

Changes in student attitudes toward interprofessional learning and collaboration arising from a case-based educational experience

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Submitted by National Center... on Mar 14, 2014 - 11:14am CDT

Working effectively with other disciplines is an important and necessary skill for healthcare practitioners. Academic institutions can provide educational experiences that can begin to foster the prerequisite competencies needed to collaborate successfully with other healthcare professionals. The purpose of this study was to examine changes in attitudes toward learning from and collaborating with other healthcare students and professionals arising from an interprofessional educational (IPE) experience.

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Training improves inter-collegial communication

Training improves inter-collegial communication

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Submitted by National Center... on Mar 14, 2014 - 11:14am CDT

BACKGROUND: Good intercollegial communication is a relatively unstudied topic, although it is important for both health professionals and patients, contributing to enhanced well-being, self-awareness and integrity for health professionals, and positively affecting patient outcome and satisfaction.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether a communication skills training course would improve intercollegial communication in an orthopaedic department.

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An interprofessional course using human patient simulation to teach patient safety and teamwork skills

An interprofessional course using human patient simulation to teach patient safety and teamwork skills

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Submitted by National Center... on Mar 14, 2014 - 11:14am CDT

OBJECTIVES:

To assess the effectiveness of human patient simulation to teach patient safety, team-building skills, and the value of interprofessional collaboration to pharmacy students.

DESIGN:

Five scenarios simulating semi-urgent situations that required interprofessional collaboration were developed. Groups of 10 to 12 health professions students that included 1 to 2 pharmacy students evaluated patients while addressing patient safety hazards.

ASSESSMENT:

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Two new aspects of continuity of care

Two new aspects of continuity of care

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Submitted by National Center... on Mar 14, 2014 - 11:14am CDT

OBJECTIVE: To determine whether the original continuity of care framework is still applicable to family medicine today.

DESIGN: Qualitative descriptive study.

SETTING: Kingston, Ont.

PARTICIPANTS: Three groups of first-year family medicine residents (18 in total), 2 groups of family physicians in established comprehensive practices (9 in total), and 2 groups of family physicians working in episodic care settings (10 in total).

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Implementing a nurse-shadowing program for first-year medical students to improve interprofessional collaborations on health care teams

Implementing a nurse-shadowing program for first-year medical students to improve interprofessional collaborations on health care teams

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Submitted by National Center... on Mar 14, 2014 - 11:14am CDT

Although physicians and nurses play critical roles in providing team-based collaborative care, the literature on current relationships between physicians and nurses in typical health care settings reveals troublesome characteristics that affect the quality of the patient care that they provide. Studies report communication failures, poor coordination, and fragmented care within and across organizations, which then have been associated with medication errors, patient safety issues, and patient deaths.

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Attitudes toward interprofessional education: comparing physician assistant and other health care professions students

Attitudes toward interprofessional education: comparing physician assistant and other health care professions students

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Submitted by National Center... on Mar 14, 2014 - 11:14am CDT

PURPOSE:

Since the release of the 1988 World Health Organization report on the need for interprofessional education (IPE) programs, various forms of IPE curricula have been implemented within institutions of higher education. The purpose of this paper is to describe results of a study using the Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS) to compare physician assistant (PA) students with other health professions students.

METHODS:

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A survey of pedagogical approaches and quality mechanisms used in education programs for mental health professionals

A survey of pedagogical approaches and quality mechanisms used in education programs for mental health professionals

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Submitted by National Center... on Mar 14, 2014 - 11:14am CDT

The provision of high-quality education and training that is responsive, relevant, accessible and evidence based is critical if the vision for quality mental health services presented in recent policy initiatives in Ireland is to be fulfilled. This paper reports the findings related to pedagogical approaches and quality assurance mechanisms utilized within mental health education. The study involved canvassing all Higher Education Institutions in Ireland. A total of 227 courses in 31 educational institutes were identified and 149 questionnaires were returned from 129 Course Coordinators.

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