Interprofessional collaboration is a patient-centred, team-based approach that maximises the strengths and skills of each contributing health and social care worker, thus increasing the quality of patient/service user care. (Hoffman et al 2007)
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Collaborative Practice
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Interprofessional Theory & Practice
Barr, H., Koppel, I., Reevas, S., Hammick, M. & Freeth, D. (Eds). (2005). Effective Interprofessional Education: Arguments, Assumptions and Evidence. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Freeth, D., Hammick, M., Barr, H., Koppel, I. & Reeves, S. (Eds). (2005). Effective Interprofessional Education: Development, Delivery and Evaluation. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Hean, S., & Dickinson, C. (2005). The Contact Hypothesis: and exploration of its further potential in interprofessional education. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 19 (5), 480-491.
Howkins, E., & Bray, J. (Eds.). (2008). Preparing for interprofessional teaching: Theory and practice. Abingdon: Radcliffe
Reeves, S., Goldman, J., & Oandasan, I. (2007). Key factors in planning and implementing interprofessional education in health care settings. Journal of Allied Health, 36 (4), 231-235.
Collaborative Practice
Beyerlein, M.M., Johnson, D. A., & Susan T. Beyerlein, S. T. (Eds). (2004). Complex Collaboration: Building the Capabilities for Working Across Boundaries. Amsterdam: Elsevier.
Leathard, A. (Ed.). (2003). Interprofessional Collaboration: From Policy to Practice in Health and Social Care. New York: Brunner-Routledge.
Loxley, A. (1997). Collaboration in health and welfare: working with difference London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
Meads, G. & Ashcroft, J. (Eds). (2005). The Case for Interprofessional Collaboration in Health and Social Care. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing.
Yan, J., Gilbert, J., & Hoffman, S. J. (2007). World Health Organization Study Group on interprofessional education and collaborative practice. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 21 (6), 588-589.
Policy and Project Reports
Bosco, C. (2004). Examples of interprofessional education and collaborative practice: Findings from in-depth interviews. In I. Oandasan, et al. (Eds.),
Interdisciplinary education for collaborative, patient-centred projects: research and findings report February 20, 2004
(pp. 172-189). Montreal: Health Canada.
The Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry. (2001) Learning from Bristol: the report of the public inquiry into children's heart surgery at the Bristol Royal Infirmary 1984-1995. Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry, July 2001. Available from www.bristol-inquiry.org.uk/
New Zealand Workforce Taskforce. (2008). Working together for better primary health care: Overcoming barriers to workforce change and innovation. Wellington: Ministry of Health. Available from http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/indexmh/better-primary-healthcare-2008?Open
Rider, E. A., Brashers, V. L., & Costanza, M. E. (2008). Using interprofessional team-based learning to develop health care policy. Medical Education, 42, 519-520.
Workforce Taskforce (2008). Working Together for Better Primary Health Care: Overcoming barriers to workforce change and innovation. Report to the Minister of Health from the Workforce Taskforce. May 2008. Wellington: Ministry of Health. Available from http://www.moh.govt.nz/moh.nsf/indexmh/better-primary-healthcare-2008
World Health Organization (WHO). (1988). Learning Together to Work Together for Health. Report of a WHO Study Group on Multiprofessional Education for Health Personnel: The Team Approach. Technical Report Series 769:1-72. Geneva: World Health Organization.
World Health Organization. (2006). Working together for health. The World Health Report 2006. Geneva: WHO.
World Health Organization. (2008). Primary health care: Now more than ever. The World Health Report 2008. Geneva: WHO.
Teaching and Learning
>'It is in the formative years of undergraduate education that attitudes are forged and skills imparted which shape the quality of engagement with patients for years to come' (Kennedy, 2001 The Bristol Report).
General
Beardsley, R. S., Kimberlin, C. L., & Tindall, W. N. (Eds.). (2007). Communication skills in pharmacy practice: a practical guide for students and practitioners (5th ed.). Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer/Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Knapp, M. S. (Ed.). (1998). Paths to partnership: university and community as learners in interprofessional education. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Tertiary Education
Blue, A. V., & Garr, D. R. (2007). Interprofessional education and prevention: preparing the next generation of healthcare professionals. Journal of Public Health Management and Practice, 13 (6), 539-540.
Buelow, J. R., Downs, D., Jorgensen, K., Karges, J. R., & Nelson, D. (2008). Building interdisciplinary teamwork among allied health students through live clinical case simulations. Journal of Allied Health, 37 (2), 109E-123E.
Colyer, H. M. (2008). Embedding interprofessional learning in pre-registation education in health and social care: evidence of cultural lag.
Learning in Health and Social Care
, 7 (3), 126-133.
Curran, V. R., Sharpe, D., Forristall, J., & Flynn, K. (2008). Attitudes of health sciences students towards interprofessional teamwork and education. Learning in Health and Social Care, 7 (3), 146-156.
Davidson, L., & Lucas, J. (1995). Multiprofessional education in the undergraduate health professions curriculum: observations from Adelaide, Linkoping and Salford. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 9 (2), 163-176.
Gilbert, J. H. V. (2005). Interprofessional learning and higher education structural barriers. Journal of Interprofessional Care, Suppl 1 , 87-106.
Hoffman, S. J., Rosenfield, D., Gilbert, J. H. V., Oandasan, I. F. (2007), Student leadership in interprofessional education; benefits, challenges and implications for educators, researchers and policymakers. Medical Education, 42 (7): 654-661.
Moran, M., Boyce, R., O'Neill, K., Bainbridge, L., & Newton, C. (2007). The Health Care Team Challenge: Extra-curricula engagement in interprofessional education (IPE). Focus on Health Professional Education: A Multi-disciplinary Journal, 8: 47-53.
Pollard, K. (2008). Non-formal learning and interprofessional collaboration in health and social care: the influence of the quality of staff interaction on student learning about collaborative behaviour in practice placements. Learning in Health & Social Care, 7 (1), 12-26.
Rodger, S., Webb, G., Devitt, L., Gilbert, J., Wrightson, P., & McKeeken, J. (2008). Clinical education and practice placements in the allied health professions: an international perspective. Journal of Allied Health, 37 (1), 53-62.
Work-based Learning
Boyd, M., & Horne, W. (2008). Primary health care in New Zealand: teamworking and collaborative practice -- interprofessional learning 2008. Auckland, New Zealand: Waitemata District Health Board.
Hall, P. (2005). Interprofessional teamwork: professional cultures as barriers. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 19 (Supplement 1/May), 188-196.
Humphris, D. (2008). Changing clinical care and workforce development. In A. Gray, P. Degeling & H. Colebatch (Eds.), Changing clinical care: experiences and lessons of systematisation (pp. 211-223). Oxford: Radcliffe Publishing.
Hunt, S. G. (2007). Participatory community practice : developing interprofessional skills. Focus on Health Professional Education, 8 (3), 71-78.
Leathard, A. (Ed.). (2003). Interprofessional collaboration: From policy to practice in health and social care. Hove: Brunner-Routledge.
Leeder, D. (2007). E-learning support for inter-professional education in health and social care (ELSIE). Bristol: Higher Education Academy, University of the West of England.
McKinlay, E., & Pullon, S. (2007). Interprofessional learning-the solution to collaborative practice in primary care: when health professionals from different disciplines truly understand each other's roles, responsibilities and challenges-through interprofessional education-the potential of genuine teamwork can be fully realised. Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand, 13 (10)
Nisbet, G., Thistlethwaite, J., Chesters, J., Jones, M., Moran, M., Murphy, K., et al. (2007). Sharing a vision for collaborative practice: the formation of an Australasian interprofessional practice and education network (AIPPEN). Focus on Health Professional Education, 8 (3), 1-7.
Cultural Perspectives for Interprofessional learning
Geva, E., Barsky, A. E., & Westernoff, F. (Eds.) (2000). Interprofessional practice with diverse populations: Cases in point. Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Publishing Group.
Minore, B., Boone, M., Katt, M., Kinch, P., & Birch, S. (2004). Addressing the realities [correction of realties] of health care in northern aboriginal communities through participatory action research. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 18: 360-368.
Purden, M. (2005). Cultural considerations in interprofessional education and practice. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 19, (1): 224-234.
Rural and Remote Health
Albert, E., Dalton, L., Spencer, J., Dunn, M., & Walker, J. (2004). Doing it together: the Tasmanian Interdisciplinary Rural Placement Program. Australian Journal of Rural Health, 12 (1), 30-31.
College of Health Disciplines, The University of British Columbia. (2008). Final Report of the Rural Academic Health Project. Available from http://healthprofessions.dal.ca/Files/1._AHCBC_Rural_Program_Final_Report.pdf (PDF file.)
McNair, R., Stone, N., Sims, J., & Curtis, C. (2005). Australian evidence for interprofessional education contributing to effective teamwork preparation and interest in rural practice. Journal of Interprofessional Care, 19: 579-594.
Playford, D. E., Denz-Penhey, H., Skinner, L., & Murdoch, J. C. (2008). Will Australian rural clinical schools be an effective workforce strategy? Early indications of their positive effect on intern choice and rural career interest. Medical Journal of Australia, 188 (3), 190.
Stone, N. (2006). The Rural Interprofessional Education Project (RIPE). Journal of Interprofessional Care, 20 (1), 79-81.
Stone, N. (2007). Coming in from the interprofessional cold in Australia. Australian Health Review, 31 (3), 332-340.
Walker, J., Behrens, H., & Dow, A. (2007). Building relationships through multi-disciplinary education in the north west tasmania rural palliative care project. 9th National Rural Health Conference, Albury NSW. 7-10 March 2007. Available from http://9thnrhc.ruralhealth.org.au/program/docs/papers/walker_D7.pdf (PDF file.)