Collaborative and interprofessional practice (IPP) occurs when multiple healthcare workers from different professional backgrounds work together with patients, families and communities to deliver the highest quality of care (World Health Organization, 2010). It is evident that IPP is regarded as an important aspect of healthcare delivery on a global scale as the World Health Organization (WHO) has released a position statement on interprofessional collaboration (IPC) and interprofessional education (IPE), and suggested models for its implementation. The WHO Framework for Action on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice highlights the current status of IPC and IPE around the world, and identifies mechanisms to build successful
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From this emerges mounting evidence that IPC in healthcare provides multiple benefits, including: increased access to healthcare, improved outcomes for those with chronic diseases, reduced errors, effective use of resources and cost-effectiveness, reduced hospitalisation rates, and increased satisfaction for both patients and providers (Bharwani et al., 2012; CHSRF, 2006; ICSC, 2007; West & Lyubovnikova, …show more content…
Within the nursing literature IPP suggests “practice environments that promote nurses’ autonomy, accountability and strong interdisciplinary teamwork lead to better patient outcomes and improved nurses’ satisfaction” (Hoffart & Woods, 1996). Thus, an IPP environment can foster the development of nursing knowledge by building autonomy and strength in the nursing role and discipline as a whole, and by the nature of teamwork, facilitate interactions and discussions between members of an IPP team where nurses can be stimulated to consider different elements of a particular clinical situation. However, in order to maintain strength in their role, nurses must continue to embrace the very uniqueness of nursing through the ways of knowing applied through nursing care, especially clinical intuition, empirical, ethical, aesthetic and personal knowing. This must not be lost in the nurses’ interprofessional role (McEwen & Wills, 2014). It is clear that through IPP there is a need for nursing role clarity and enough flexibility to expand nursing knowledge in new directions and that may maintain shared features of other
From this emerges mounting evidence that IPC in healthcare provides multiple benefits, including: increased access to healthcare, improved outcomes for those with chronic diseases, reduced errors, effective use of resources and cost-effectiveness, reduced hospitalisation rates, and increased satisfaction for both patients and providers (Bharwani et al., 2012; CHSRF, 2006; ICSC, 2007; West & Lyubovnikova, …show more content…
Within the nursing literature IPP suggests “practice environments that promote nurses’ autonomy, accountability and strong interdisciplinary teamwork lead to better patient outcomes and improved nurses’ satisfaction” (Hoffart & Woods, 1996). Thus, an IPP environment can foster the development of nursing knowledge by building autonomy and strength in the nursing role and discipline as a whole, and by the nature of teamwork, facilitate interactions and discussions between members of an IPP team where nurses can be stimulated to consider different elements of a particular clinical situation. However, in order to maintain strength in their role, nurses must continue to embrace the very uniqueness of nursing through the ways of knowing applied through nursing care, especially clinical intuition, empirical, ethical, aesthetic and personal knowing. This must not be lost in the nurses’ interprofessional role (McEwen & Wills, 2014). It is clear that through IPP there is a need for nursing role clarity and enough flexibility to expand nursing knowledge in new directions and that may maintain shared features of other