A reflection on collaborative practice: interprofessional working together A medical imaging student with bias for Diagnostic Radiography‚ a clinical profession within the allied health and working in the National Health Services (NHS) Since the beginning of my programme‚ I have had the opportunity to work with other professions like the Surgeon in the theatre‚ Doctors in A & E‚ Orthopaedics‚ ICU and Adult Nurses at various wards within the multidisciplinary NHS. Although the Radiographers’
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o First Patch. Professional Understanding Collaborative practice (Sadler 2004) is at the forefront of health and social care training. For me‚ like many nursing students‚ the first steps in collaborative practice were the IPL (interprofessional learning) modules at university. This has been described as two or more professions being taught together as away of cultivating collaborative practice (Caipe. 2010). These modules consisted of student nurses studying different fields‚ OT’s‚ radiographers
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This essay will discuss my learning over the duration of the Interprofessional (IP) studies module‚ conference days and online interaction with other healthcare students within the group. I will discuss the importance of interprofessional collaboration with other disciplines and why it is important to respect their roles and values. To work in an interprofessional way within clinical practice students must learn the skills required during the course of their training‚ much of this is learnt during
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COMPLEXITY As an organization grows‚ there is a necessity to grow from generalist to specialist organization. Organization structure is all about grouping the people and the tasks in the best way‚ that tells them what to do and what not to do. In small organizations‚ there is random communication amongst people‚ but in large organizations communication clustering starts happening. People start clustering‚ communicating with people depending on their need. For example‚ Sales people cluster with
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understand where they are coming from (Clark‚ 2006). This essay will discuss the skills essential for collaboration in interprofessional practice as well as understanding how other factors play key parts in this collaboration; professional cultures‚ professionalization‚ law and policies and service user involvement. From my own experience I have not been exposed to many interprofessional
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Critical reflection. What do we really mean? Patricia Lucas Auckland University of Technology (and PhD student Deakin University) Do we really know what critical reflection means in the context of work-integrated learning‚ more specifically cooperative education? Critical reflection‚ in some form‚ is located within many higher education programmes‚ including cooperative education and many educators would say this is important for in-depth student learning. It is a form of reflection that is
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disciplines; nursing and allied health professions‚ and by coming together to build on our knowledge of interprofessional collaboration‚ we were engaging in what Vanclay (1998) called ‘interprofessional education’; namely learning from‚ with and about each other as professionals. We introduced ourselves to each other through our online group‚ and gave a brief outline of our professional roles. On reflection‚ in future I would choose to spend more time on introducing ourselves to each other‚ and would consider
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Collaborative Practice Collaborative Practice Collaboration is defined by Webster (1988) as working together in some undertaking. The collaboration of many healthcare disciplines is essential to meet the needs of patients in today’s medical arena. As a neonatal intensive care nurse‚ I see on a daily basis how vital it is for these individual disciplines to link together around a common subject‚ the patient. This paper will showcase collaborative practice by identifying the healthcare and social
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Collaborative Practice In our ever changing health care system the need for collaboration is more needed than ever. Collaboration as defined on Wikipedia "is a process defined by the recursive interaction of knowledge and mutual learning between two or more people who are working together‚ in an intellectual endeavor‚ toward a common goal" (Wikipedia‚ 2007). Collaboration is a complex process that requires intentional knowledge sharing and joint responsibility for patient care. Sometimes it occurs
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FOUNDATIONS OF INTERPROFESSIONAL PRACTICE INTRODUCTION When I started my physiotherapy course at Glasgow Caledonian University in September‚ one of the modules I undertook for the duration of semester one was ‘Foundations of Interprofessional Practice’. Leathard (2003) describes the term “interprofessional” as the interaction between professionals from different disciplines working together to achieve the same goals; and further their studies through shared learning. This module gives students
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