Recognizing and rewarding collaborative researchers
The collective resolve of funding agencies, universities, and investigators is required to change the "conventional wisdom" that governs policies of recognition and reward so that the culture within which we conduct research is one that fosters the cutting edge potential of intra- and interdisciplinary collaborative circles and teams rather than discredits and undermines their work together.
Ten years on
This editorial celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Journal of Interprofessional Care.
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Seizing the moment: An opportune time to study the outcomes of interprofessional education and health care delivery
Interprofessional efforts have never been "mainstream." Although other disciplines have valued interprofessional activities, there has been little interest in interprofessional efforts by organized medicine; too often, interprofessional efforts have depended on individual, personal commitment and experience.
Many factors in health care delivery have converged to generate a renewed, more mainstream interest in interprofessional practice models.
A new collaboration
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National Academies of Practice annual conference report- Interprofessional approaches to the prevention of health care errors
This report summarizes the National Academies of Practice annual meeting, convened in cooperation with the Interdisciplinary Health Care Team Conference, on April 13, 2002 in Washington, D.C.
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National Academies of Practice meets at the National Institutes of Health
This report describes the National Academies of Practice membership Forum Day, held on April 28, 2000 at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
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The University of Virginia interprofessional education initiative: An approach to integrating competencies into medical and nursing education
Growing evidence supports the position that interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative care are essential elements of healthcare education and practice (Institute of Medicine, 2003; World Health Organization, 2010).
Navigating tensions: Integrating palliative care consultation services into an academic medical center setting
CONTEXT: Despite rapid proliferation of hospital-based palliative care consultation services (PCCSs) across the country, there is little description of the dynamic processes that the PCCS and the non-PCCS hospital cultures experience during the institutionalization of a successful PCCS.
OBJECTIVES: To describe the institutionalization of a new PCCS in a quaternary care academic medical center (AMC) and highlight two themes, cost and quality, that pervaded the dynamics involved from the inception to the successful integration of the service.
Family members' informal roles in end-of-life decision making in adult intensive care units
BACKGROUND: To support the process of effective family decision making, it is important to recognize and understand informal roles that various family members may play in the end-of-life decision-making process.
OBJECTIVE: To describe some informal roles consistently enacted by family members involved in the process of end-of-life decision making in intensive care units.
Core competencies for interprofessional collaborative practice: Reforming health care by transforming health professionals' education
Through purposeful learning guided by the interprofessional collaborative practice competencies, health professionals will acquire needed knowledge and skills to work together in environments built on mutual respect and shared values, knowledge of each other's roles and responsibilities, and effective communication and teamwork processes. The establishment of these competencies for health professionals provides a transformative direction for improving the health care system.