The interprofessional education and practice literature has continued to expand at an impressive rate over the past few decades. While it is encouraging to see an expansion of conceptual, evaluative and theoretical papers, there remains a tendency in the field to focus on psychological, social-psychological, organizational and systems perspectives. As a result of using this… Read More »
Interesting article written by: Clare Abley, John Bond, & Louise RobinsonA key focus for professionals working with older people in the community is on those who are vulnerable, although this vulnerability is not well defined. This study sought the views of health and social care professionals and older people on vulnerability, identifying significant differences between… Read More »
Interprofessional education and collaboration in health and social care have become significant items on Canada’s policy agenda. As a result, they are receiving attention from different levels of government, health services/academic institutions and regulatory bodies (e.g. Cote, Lauzon, & Kyd-Strickland, 2008). To date, however, only a limited number of studies have focused on the longer-term effects… Read More »
Great article written by Gayle E. Rutherford: Clients, patients, families, and communities must be conceived as partners in care delivery, not just as recipients (D’Amour, D. & Oandasan, I. (2005). Journal of Interprofessional Care, 19(Suppl.), 8–20). Health-care students need an opportunity to understand community member self-determination, partnership, and empowerment (Scheyett, A., & Diehl, M. (2004).… Read More »
Primary care reform involving interprofessional team-based care is a global phenomenon. In Ontario, Canada, 150 Family Health Teams (FHTs) have been approved in the past few years. The transition to a FHT is complex involving many changes and the processes for collaborative teamwork are not clearly delineated. To support the transition to team-based care in… Read More »
Developing an iOSCE presents unique challenges. For example, there is a need to balance the inclusiveness of participating professions in each scenario with realism, and the need to ensure that learners have opportunities to demonstrate their different interprofessional skills within scenarios. Nevertheless, this initial work has helped to ensure that the perspectives of the professions… Read More »
Expansion of the nurse practitioner (NP) role worldwide indicates a need to understand how the role functions in interprofessional healthcare teams. Through the adoption of a mixed methods approach that gathered on-site tracking and observation, self-recorded logs of consultations and focus group interviews of team members and NPs, we describe the extent of role activity… Read More »
Interprofessional education (IPE) and interprofessional collaboration (IPC) have been identified in health education and health care as playing an important role in improving health care services and patient outcomes. Despite a growth in the amount of research in these areas, poor conceptualizations of these interprofessional activities have persisted. Given the conceptual challenges, a scoping review… Read More »
Workforce planning is an ongoing discussion for health and social care policymakers across the world. Attempting to educate different professional groups to equip them with a suitable skills mix to meet the growing and evolving demands of patients/clients and their families is clearly no mean feat. It is certainly one which needs to be continually… Read More »
As we know, IPE is considered a key mechanism in enhancing communication and practice among health care providers, optimizing participation in clinical decision making and improving the delivery of care. An important, though under-explored, factor connected to this form of education is the unequal power relations that exist between the health and the social care… Read More »