2. Interprofessional
Healthcare Teams
Implications
for
Education and Practice

3. Objectives
1. Describe the process of effective teams
2. Discuss ethical principles that guide
interprofessional teamwork
3. Interact with individuals of other healthcare
professions to create a climate of mutual respect
and shared values
4. Identify effective communication skills that
support the interprofessional team processes
5. Identify ways to forge interdependent
relationships with other healthcare professionals
to improve patient care and advanced learning

5. Why are discussing
this topic?
Problems in our Healthcare System
Lack of care coordination ⇨ duplication of services,
increased costs
Increasing complexity of health care
National and International organizations
recommendations (e.g. WHO, Accreditation, IOM)
IOM Future of Nursing Report (2010): “Nurses
should be educated with health professions
both as students and throughout their careers
in lifelong learning…” (p. 2)

6. IOM Recommendations
1) Remove scope of practice barriers
2) Expand opportunities for nurses to lead
and diffuse collaborative improvement efforts
3) Implement nurse residency programs
4) Increase proportion of nurses with BSN degree
to 80% by 2020
5) Double the number of nurses with a doctorate by
2020
6) Ensure that nurses engage in lifelong learning
7) Prepare and enable nurses to lead change to
advance health
8) Build an infrastructure to collect and analyze
health care workforce data

7. Definitions
Interprofessional
Collaboration (IPC) Team
Active participation of each
discipline in patient care to A group with a common
enhance communication among purpose, having
professionals and improve care interdependent subtasks
coordination. to accomplish. A team
Interprofessional has complementary skills
that generate synergy
Education (IPE) through a coordinated
When two or more professions effort maximizing
learn from and about each other members strengths.
to improve collaboration and the
quality of care

8. 2011 IPE Competencies
IPEC= AACN + ACOM + AACP + ADEA + AAMC + AASPH
Values and Ethics for Interprofessional
Practice
Roles and Responsibilities for Collaborative
Practice
Interprofessional Communication
Interprofessional Teamwork and Team-based
Care

9. Model:
Appreciative Inquiry
Appreciative Inquiry (AI) is a method to help
create the “best” in organizational systems.
Beyond organizational development ⇨ what gives
vitality to human systems (e.g. family, personal
relationships)
Asking good questions ⇨ good decision
making
Who is on my team to help me ask these questions?
Ideal  vs. Problem Solving models

10. How Does AI Work?
The Brain is a search engine: i.e. red cars
The Brain works in pictures
Change is directional based on focus
Language and stories are important (culture
building)
Old stories die hard
Collective wisdom of the people

11. How to Get Started*
Affirmative Topic selected
4-D cycle (Discovery, Dream, Design,
Destiny)
Focusing on the positive ideal using the
collective wisdom of the people
“Goodfinder”: Experts at deliberately
noticing, anticipating, and magnifying
positive potential
*David Cooperrider Case Western Reserve University mid 1980’s

13. Team Process
Effective versus Ineffective
Team Process
How have you developed
effective teams?

14. Audience
Participation
Story: tell about a time
when you were part of a
highly effective team…
What are the top three
qualities of effective
teams?

15. Mutual Respect
and
Shared Values
Ideas in creating respect and
shared values among
interdisciplinary team members
vs. profession-centrism &
competition

16. Audience
Participation
Story: tell about a time
when you felt respected by
another professional…
What shared values do
interprofessional healthcare
team members have in
common?

17. Communication Skills
Ideas about skills and barriers?
Conflict & confrontation,
incivility, assertiveness,
openness, receptivity,
advocating…

18. Audience
Participation
Story: Tell about a time
when you observed
someone else who
communicated or
advocated effectively.
How does your way of
communicating support or
hinder teamwork?

19. Bridging the
Interprofessional Team
Education- Practice Gap
Initiatives, programs, innovative
ideas for building collaboration
among interprofessional team
members?

20. Audience
Participation
Story: tell about a time you
developed a relationship or
worked closely with
someone from another
profession.
How can interdisciplinary
awareness and respect be
expanded by education
systems? Practice
environments?

21. References
Committee on the Health of Professions Education Summit (2003)
Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality. Washington, DC:
The National Academies of Sciences.
Interprofessional Education Collaboration (2011) Core Competencies
for Interprofessional Collaborative Practice. A report of an expert
panel. Washington, DC: Interprofessional Education Collaborative.
IOM (2010) The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing
Health. Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative
on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of Medicine; Institute of
Medicine. http://www.nap.edu/catalog/12956.html. Last accessed
October, 2012.
Sportsman, S. (2012). Interprofessional Education: a white paper.
http://pages.elsevieradvantage.com/rs/elsevierhse/images/ACG-11-
12-Exemplars-of-Interprofessional-Education%20REV.pdf. Last
accessed February, 2013.