Allport's Intergroup Contact Theory as a theoretical base for impacting student attitudes in interprofessional education
Interprofessional education has been defined as "members or students of two or more professionals associated with health or social care, engaged in learning with, from and about each other". Ideally, students trained using interprofessional education paradigms become interprofessional team members who gain respect and improve their attitudes about each other, and ultimately improve patient outcomes. However, it has been stated that before interprofessional education can claim its importance and successes, its impact must be critically evaluated.
An interprofessional rural clinical placement pilot project
PubMed URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19412860
Interprofessional education in US medical schools
PubMed URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20148622
How consultation liaison meetings improved staff knowledge, communication and care
This article describes the evolution of a multiprofessional group in a psychiatric nursing home for older people with mental illness and challenging behaviours. The nursing home has gained a reputation for excellence, and we believe the group has contributed to this. To analyse how the group has helped, a staff survey was carried out. As a result, we suggest that groups like this should be a standard part of community liaison services for residential homes for older people.
Reflections on facilitating an interprofessional problem-based learning module
PubMed URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19842961
Intermediate care: an interprofessional education opportunity in primary care
PubMed URL: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19842960
The impact of an online interprofessional course in disaster management competency and attitude towards interprofessional learning
A recent national assessment of emergency planning in Canada suggests that health care professionals are not properly prepared for disasters. In response to this gap, an interprofessional course in disaster management was developed, implemented and evaluated in Toronto, Canada from 2007 to 2008. Undergraduate students from five educational institutions in nursing, medicine, paramedicine, police, media and health administration programs took an eight-week online course.
Registered nurses as members of interprofessional primary health care teams in remote or isolated areas of Queensland: Collaboration, communication and partnerships in practice
Nurses represent the largest occupational group of health care professionals in Australia. The ratio of nurses to population is relatively consistent, unlike other health care professional groups (including medical doctors and allied health staff) whose numbers decline as population density and distance from metropolitan areas increases. Nurses working in areas where other health care professionals are limited or absent have expanded scopes of practice with their work being more generalist than specialist.
Perceptions of effective and ineffective nurse-physician communication in hospitals
PROBLEM:
Nurse-physician communication affects patient safety. Such communication has been well studied using a variety of survey and observational methods; however, missing from the literature is an investigation of what constitutes effective and ineffective interprofessional communication from the perspective of the professionals involved. The purpose of this study was to explore nurse and physician perceptions of effective and ineffective communication between the two professions.
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How and where clinicians exercise power: interprofessional relations in health care
This study aims to contribute to the limited set of interactional studies of health occupational relations. A "negotiated order" perspective was applied to a multi-site setting to articulate the ways in which clinicians' roles, accountabilities and contributions to patient care are shaped by the care setting and are influenced by the management of patient pathways.