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September is Healthy Aging Month, giving health professionals the opportunity to recognize the importance of oral health in promoting overall positive health outcomes as we age. Year-round, OHNEP enhances the nursing profession’s interprofessional role in oral health and its links to overall health in both academic and clinical settings. Adopting healthy habits and lifestyle changes - regular exercise, a nutritious diet, improved sleep patterns - are ways we can overcome health physical and mental health challenges that occur with age.

Describes a process to access and ensure safe consent for the development of resources, enabling health professionals and patients to talk using an innovative, respectful approach. An interprofessional class with learning outcomes focused on management of long-term conditions needed to understand typical examples of community-based interprofessional health-care teams in action.

Summary: In New Zealand, doctors work in collaborative interdisciplinary teams, particularly in the management of patients with long-term and complex conditions, and have an important role in supporting the further development of collaborative models of care. There are models of shared care between disciplines, across health sectors, including a range of health and professional groups as well as partnering with patients, family and whānau. Within teams, role clarification is necessary together with the building of professional trust in other disciplines’ specialist skills.

This research examined how pedagogically naïve clinicians of different disciplines initially formed an IPE teaching team. A case study approach was undertaken with data collected over the first sixteen months of an IPE program. Data analysis using a grounded theory constant comparison approach revealed themes relating to the formation, development, and evolving sophistication of the teaching team from functioning, to co-ordinating, to co-operating, and finally to collaborating.