Essay On Interprofessionalism

Interprofessional evidence-based practice can be described as health care professionals from different professions coming together to make the very best decision for their patient. Since it is still categorized as evidence-based practice, this means that both of these professionals would use research evidence, personal clinical expertise, and whatever treatment option the patient prefers. An example of interprofessionalism would be an orthodontist and a occupational therapist combining their skills to help a patient who has suffered a major jaw injury and needs to learn how to perform basic skills with his/her new jaw. Another type of article that a health care provider may stumble across during their research is a discipline specific evidence-based practice article. This means that the health care professional that wrote this article is an expert in only one area of …show more content…
The disciplines involved in the research and writing of this article include nurses, psychologists (psychotherapists), a care manager, personal support workers and information/knowledge from primary and specialist mental healthcare services. It was important for these disciplines to be involved in this research for many reasons, but the biggest one being that the problem at hand simply required more than one field of health care. It was found that the attempt to lower depressive symptoms in elders was not working when the research only involved experts from the social working and psychology fields. The addition of licensed nurses is what helped make this research successful in decreasing depression in Home-Care clients. While many interprofessional articles may very often be of use to other health care providers or researchers in different disciplines, I do