Interprofessional collaboration: multiple health workers fromdifferent professional backrougs

provide comprehensibe services by working with patients, their families, carers and
communities to deliver the highest quality of care across settings.
Why is is important?
1. Ppl are living longer with multiple co-morbidities and increases in chronic illness that
require complex care management
2. Comple care management requires effective collabortation and communication
between all health care providers
3. Health professionals work in de=iverses areas of acute and community settings where
interprofessional team approaches are paramount to positive health outcomes
4. The institute for med estimesates that 98000 deaths due to medical errors could have
been prevented wiuth better, collab, communication and coordination od care
5. Patents report higher care satisfacrion when multiple types of health care workers come
together to deliver personalized patient centred care

Who is involved?
RN:
Role/scope of practice: the role of the rn is to provide health csre to individuals, families
and communities. Nurses provide services designated to promote health, prevent illness
and achieve optimal recovery from or adaptations to health probs
How profession collabs with others: nurses interact with other professions on a daily basiss,
nurses are present on a 24 hour basis and as a result often coordinate the health care team

Medicine (MD)
Roles/scope of practice: med is focused on the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of
health isssues to imporves the wellbeing of people
How profession collabs: physicians have a large network of collabs in the delivery of health
care, depending on patients needs that span the spectrum from social work, counselling,
nutrition ect. Cannot provide complete, time appropriate, primary and tertiary healthcare
by themselves only

How is nursing involved?

Nurses are the largest group on health care teams with the most constant patient contact
Power of the nursing role: nursing has a powerful position
Interprofessional education (IPE) preparing ppl for collab practice
6 competency domains:
1 Interprofessional communication
Supports all other domains and influences them
-communicate in a coll, responsive and responsible manner
-thru active listening and non verbal communication
-develop trusting relationships
-effectively use info and communication technology
2. Patient/client/family/community-centred care
supports all other domains
-valued partners in care
-share info in an understandable way
lesten to theit needs

3. Role clarification
-understand ur own role
-recognize and respect the diversitiy of the other team providers
-access other skills and knowledge

4. team functioning
-understand the process of team development
-set principles for working together
participate in team functioning
-be respectful of other team members contributions

5 collaborative leadership
-shared decision making
-allow for shared leadershio
-create a climate of respect
-facilitate effective team processes

6. Interprofessional conflict resolution

-value the potential positive of conflict
-recognize that conflict can accour and take steps to address it
-set guidelines to address disagreements
-allow everyone to be heard