Collaboration: Practice
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Show description [+]Quality improvement collaboratives involve groups of professionals coming together, either from within an organisation or across multiple organisations, to learn from and motivate each other to improve the quality of health services. Collaboratives often use a structured approach, such as setting targets and undertaking rapid cycles of change. This evidence scan explores research about whether collaboratives help to improve quality in health care and the factors that may be key to their success.
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This guideline is intended to support you in your journeys towards excellence in communication, leadership skills, and knowledge of teamwork to build a better tomorrow for patients/clients and nurses, present and future. This panel has explored the complexities of diverse compositions, contexts and structures of nursing teams in an ever changing, interdisciplinary environment.
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This Best Practice Guideline focuses on nursing teams and processes that foster healthy work environments.
The focus for the development of this guideline was managing conflict among nursing and healthcare teams with the view that while some conflict is preventable, healthy conflict can also be beneficial. For the purpose of this document, conflict is defined as: a phenomenon occurring between interdependent parties as they experience negative emotional reactions to perceived disagreements and interference with the attainment of their goals (Barki & Hartwick, 2004).
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Show description [+]SECOND DRAFT FOR STAKEHOLDER FEEDBACK SPRING 2014Imagine a new reality, where hospice palliative care is available to Canadians when and where they need it; where living well until death is the goal of care. Now, imagine a plan to get there. That's The Way Forward: an integrated palliative approach to care across settings.
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- An interprofessional primary care (IPC) team is a group of professionals from different disciplines who work together to provide health services.
- Optimizing IPC teams can help improve patient outcomes and make the health care system more sustainable.
- To help overcome barriers to IPC, the authors synthesized findings from key informant interviews, a document review, and a stakeholder survey.
- This report provides nine recommendations to help governments, administrators, care providers, and patients optimize IPC.
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Show description [+]The Journal of Research in Interprofessional Practice and Education (JRIPE) is an open access journal that disseminates theoretical perspectives, methodologies, and evidence-based knowledge to inform interprofessional practice, education, and research to improve health care delivery, quality of care, and health status for individuals, families, and communities.
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This best practice guideline, Developing and Sustaining Interprofessional Health Care: Optimizing patients/clients, organizational, and system outcomes is intended to foster healthy work environments. The focus in developing this guideline was identifying attributes of interprofessional care that will optimize quality outcomes for patients/clients, providers, teams, the organization and the system.
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Show description [+]The Canadian Federation of Nurses Unions (CFNU): This guide calls on everyone to examine the part they play in creating a healthy workplace. That team includes front-line nurses, educators, managers, senior administrators and everyone in between. We must value individuality but know that we have common goals that bind us — like caring for patients. These goals oblige us to look beyond just diversity in age to acknowledge and respect other forms of diversity such as race, culture, religion, physical ability, socioeconomic status, gender, and sexual orientation.
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Show description [+]OBJECTIVE: To examine family health team (FHT) members’ perspectives and experiences of interprofessional collaboration and perceived benefits.MAIN FINDINGs Five main themes are reported: rethinking traditional roles and scopes of practice, management and leadership, time and space, interprofessional initiatives, and early perceptions of collaborative care.CONCLUSION: This study shows the importance of issues such as roles and scopes of practice, leadership, and space to effective team-based primary care, and provides a framework for understanding different types of interprofessional interventions used to support interprofessional collaboration.
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Show description [+]At a time when the world is facing a shortage of health workers, policy-makers are looking for innovative strategies that can help them develop policy and programmes to bolster the global health workforce. The Framework for Action on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice highlights the current status of interprofessional collaboration around the world, identifies the mechanisms that shape successful collaborative teamwork and outlines a series of action items that policy-makers can apply within their local health system. The goal of the Framework is to provide strategies and ideas that will help health policy-makers implement the elements of interprofessional education and collaborative practice that will be most beneficial in their own jurisdiction.