Monthly Archives: December 2011

Development of a scale to measure health professions students’ self-efficacy beliefs in interprofessional learning

Happy Holidays from the Journal of Interprofessional Care! Great article about the development of a scale to measure health professions students’ self-efficacy beliefs in interprofessional learning.  By Karen Mann (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), Judith McFetridge-Durdle (Memorial University, St. John’s, Newfoundland, Canada), Lynn Breau (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), Joanne Clovis (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), Ruth Martin-Misener (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada), Tanya Matheson (Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova… Read More »

Frequency of nurse–physician collaborative behaviours in an acute care hospital

Interesting article written by: Dawn Marie Nair, (Department of Nursing, Fairfield University,  Fairfield, CT , USA); Joyce J. Fitzpatrick (Department of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University,  Cleveland, OH , USA); Rita McNulty (Department of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University,  Cleveland, OH , USA); Elizabeth R. Click (Department of Nursing, Case Western Reserve University,  Cleveland, OH , USA); and Margaret M. Glembocki (Department of Nursing, Oakland… Read More »

The role of interagency collaboration in “joined-up” case management

Interesting article about interagency collaboration, written by Marty Grace (School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Victoria University,  Melbourne , Australia), Louise Coventry, (School of Social Sciences and Psychology, Victoria University,  Melbourne , Australia),  and Deb Batterham (Hanover Welfare Services, Research and Policy,  Fitzroy, Melbourne , Australia). This article reports on research into the relationships that a group of case managers formed with… Read More »

Circles of care: A novel tool for interprofessional health education

Very interesting early online article, written by: Sarit Khimdas, Akshay Shetty, Chandheeb Rajakumar, Colin Meyer-Macaulay, Cal Shapiro, Rachit Sheshgiri and Neeraj Patel (University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada). The health care landscape has seen a dramatic change over the last 15 years, with an emphasis on an inter- professional model of health care delivery in… Read More »