The student-run free clinic: An ideal site to teach interprofessional education?
Student-run free clinics (SRFCs) often include an interprofessional group of health professions students and preceptors working together toward the common goal of caring for underserved populations. Therefore, it would seem that these clinics would be an ideal place for students to participate in an interprofessional collaborative practice and for interprofessional education to occur.
Reconnecting Public Health and Care Delivery to Improve the Health of Populations
If we are to achieve better health along the continuum of care from birth to death, we need to work across professional boundaries and better integrate the systems we have established to promote health. That was the framework that brought more than 70 thought leaders to Washington to participate in an historic, invitation-only two-day conference, “Reconnecting Public Health and Care Delivery to Improve the Health of Populations,” held May 4-5, 2014.
The case for a National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
On 10 September 2012 United States Health and Human Services Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius, announced the selection of a National Coordinating Center for Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice. Her announcement confirmed that the University of Minnesota Academic Health Center would lead the center in partnership with other educational and health care delivery sites around the country.
Update on the US National Center for Interprofessional Practice and Education
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The Oxford NOTECHS System: reliability and validity of a tool for measuring teamwork behaviour in the operating theatre
INTRODUCTION: The frequency of adverse events in the operating theatre has been linked to the quality of teamwork and communication. Developing suitable measures of teamwork may play a role in reducing errors in surgery. This study reports on the development and evaluation of a method for measuring operating-theatre teamwork quality.
Working together- primary care doctors' and nurses' attitudes to collaboration
BACKGROUND: Multidisciplinary teamwork is recommended for various disorders and it has been suggested that it is a way to meet the new challenges and demands facing general practitioners (GPs) in modern society. Attempts to introduce the method in primary care have failed partly due to GPs' unwillingness to participate. The aim of this study was to measure attitudes towards collaboration among GPs and district nurses (DN) and to investigate whether there is a correlation between a positive attitude toward collaboration and high self-esteem in the professional role.
Psychometric properties of an attitude scale measuring physician-nurse collaboration
This study examined the psychometric properties of an assessment tool for measuring attitudes toward physician-nurse collaboration. A survey addressing areas of responsibility, expectations, shared learning, decision making, authority, and autonomy was administered to first-year medical and nursing students. Factor analysis of the survey indicated that the survey measured four underlying constructs of shared education and collaborative relationships, caring as opposed to curing, nurse's autonomy, and physician's authority.
Interdisciplinary communication in the intensive care unit at the University Hospital of the West Indies
OBJECTIVE: To assess the perceptions of physicians and nurses working full-time in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the University Hospital of the West Indies (UHWI) regarding interdisciplinary communication.
Interdisciplinary communication in the intensive care unit
BACKGROUND: Patient safety research has shown poor communication among intensive care unit (ICU) nurses and doctors to be a common causal factor underlying critical incidents in intensive care. This study examines whether ICU doctors and nurses have a shared perception of interdisciplinary communication in the UK ICU.
METHODS: Cross-sectional survey of ICU nurses and doctors in four UK hospitals using a previously established measure of ICU interdisciplinary collaboration.
Development and pilot testing of the collaborative practice assessment tool
Collaborative practice is receiving increased attention as a model of healthcare delivery that positively influences the effectiveness and efficiency of patient care while improving the work environment of healthcare providers. The collaborative practice assessment tool (CPAT) was developed from the literature to enable interprofessional teams to assess their collaborative practice.