Summary: Interprofessional Communication

Interprofessional communication is the key when it comes to developing and identifying respect and appreciation for other health professionals, in order to provide the patient with well rounded care (Conn, Lingard, Reeves, Miller, Russell & Zwarenstein, 2009). Refined communication skills are essential for strong inter-professional interactions (Kairuz, & Bond, 2013). Our group was preselected so the initial stage of formation was rather smooth, but as we began to negotiate about the roles and allocate tasks there was slight tension between us all (Lingard, Resnick, Espin, Regehr, & DeVito, 2002), however this was resolved by working as a team. We were able to allocate certain roles as there was no other interest by people in the group to obtain that role, but the remaining roles were allocated by elimination, along with any other tasks. Once the tension was put aside I was allocated the role of the PDHPE teacher of Jenny and the facilitator of the meeting. Then our team collaborated to identify the key points to focus on and answers according to our profession. As a whole we functioned well as a team as we were all open to suggestions and all respected each other, while being able to …show more content…
This allowed me to be aware of the situation while being able to respond on a professional level and actively listen, to be able to input any ideas I had. As all our members were also assertive, it made communicating on the same level easy as we were all listening to each other (King, Servais, Bolack, Shepard & Willoughby, 2012) and were open and aware to new ideas and suggestions that were made. By all members communicating in this manner we were able to work efficiently as an inter-professional team to help form a strategy to put in place for Jenny’s situation, therefore showing that this was the best way to