Inter-Professional Training

Instructors should incorporate learning across the health fields in an academic setting, so incoming health professionals have the ability to correctly utilize each other as a resource. Inter-professional training will assist health teams working cohesively together as a unit, instead of separate units working only working on the same patient. By working as a unit, all of the skills that are presented from each health care professional becomes a resource that will be used in an appropriate manner. Also, inter-professional training builds respect for their job, perspectives, and array of abilities.
However, some warrants are taken with implementing inter-professional training into health care program curriculums. These assumptions can be that this type of training does not naturally occur through the programs clinicals and this type of training needs to be taught. Some form of this training does occur because students and instructors are focused on making sure the students learn and understand their own profession and that students are able to accomplish the task their job requires them to do. Interaction between the different professions, but that is not the same is …show more content…
An example of the importance of inter-professional training is that when physical therapist come to work with a patient in the hospital. If the patient is in too much pain or is sleepy from the medication the physical therapist will not be able to accomplish much. However, if the physical therapist contacts the nurses beforehand and tells them that about what time he will be coming to see the patient, the nurse could make accommodations, so the physical therapist and patient can accomplish what they need to. There are many types of scenarios that are similar to this, that requires all health care workers that are carrying a patient to communicate with each other, for the patient to experience optimal