Interprofessional teamwork is seen in healthcare policy and practice as a key strategy for providing safe, efficient and holistic healthcare and is an accepted part of evidence-based stroke care. The impact of interprofessional teamwork on patient and carer experience(s) of care is unknown, although some research suggests a relationship might exist. A recent study by… Read More »
Frontline workers in the area of child welfare often enter the field without having taken any specialized coursework in the area of child maltreatment. Lisa Johnson discusses an interdisciplinary certificate program that is specifically designed to teach persons from various academic areas the knowledge and skills necessary to work with children who experience maltreatment. The… Read More »
The interprofessional clinical experience (ICE) was designed to introduce trainees to the roles of different healthcare professionals, provide an opportunity to participate in an interprofessional team, and familiarize trainees with caring for older adults in the nursing home setting. Healthcare trainees from seven professions (dentistry, medicine, nursing, nutrition, occupational therapy, optometry and social work) participated… Read More »
Arenson and colleagues recently conducted a mixed-methods approach to assessing attitudes towards the health mentors program (HMP) and towards interprofessional practice. The health mentors program (HMP) is a required, longitudinal, interprofessional curriculum for all matriculating students from medicine, nursing, occupational therapy, physical therapy, pharmacy, and couple and family therapy. A mixed-methods approach has been employed… Read More »
Introducing our new Interprofessional Education and Practice (IPEP) Guides – A series of papers which aim to provide practical advice and support for colleagues engaged in designing, developing, assessing and evaluating interprofessional education and practice. The first guide by Les Hall and Brenda Zierler is entitled ‘Developing faculty to effectively facilitate interprofessional education’. The guide… Read More »
In a new paper published by Philip Clark in the Journal of Interprofessional Care, he argues that health and social care professionals are increasingly using narrative approaches to focus on the patient and to communicate with each other. Both effective interprofessional education (IPE) and practice (IPP) require recognizing the various values and voices of different… Read More »
Health human resource and workforce planning is a global priority. Given the critical nursing shortage, and the fact that nurses are the largest group of healthcare providers, health workforce planning must focus on strategies to enhance both recruitment and retention of nurses. Understanding early socialization to career choice can provide insight into professional perceptions and… Read More »
The concepts of interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP), cultural competency and primary healthcare (PHC) appear to be linked in theory and practice. A recently published JIC paper (Oelke et al 2013) provides arguments explicating the potential linkages between IPCP and cultural competency. The authors argue that cultural competency is an important component of IPCP both for… Read More »
In the past few years, we have seen a continued growth in the use of competency frameworks for the traditional health and social care professions (e.g. nursing, medicine) as well as the emerging professions such as physician assistants. In this editorial, I attempt to explore the continued rise of competence, with a focus on the… Read More »
Ensuring that interprofessional health care teams have a mix of skilled professionals to meet patient need, safely and effectively. Like a number of other countries, the UK have been exploring the contribution physician assistants (PAs), who are well established in the US, can make to interprofessional teams. In a study recently published in the J… Read More »