Interprofessional Working and Collaborative Practice

A special issue of Pharmacy (ISSN 2226-4787).

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2018) | Viewed by 10826

Special Issue Editors

School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen AB22 8LF, UK
Interests: technology-enhanced learning; improving the student experience; lifelong learning
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School of Nursing and Midwifery, Robert Gordon University, Garthdee, Aberdeen, UK
Interests: interprofessional education and collaborative working; curriculum design; clinical skills
College of Pharmacy, Qatar University, Doha, Qatar
Interests: interprofessional education; collaborative practice; pharmacy practice and pharmacy education

Special Issue Information

Since the 1960s interprofessional education (IPE) has been seen as being important in the training of health and social care professionals. This IPE has been defined by the Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE) as education when students ‘learn, with, from and about each other.’ The movement for IPE has grown over the years to encompass most of the globe with Canada, USA, UK and Australasia leading the way in the early years. Countries in the Middle East and Africa are now beginning on their IPE journeys and are benefitting from the experiences of the earlier pioneers.

However there is much to learn about IPE and the evidence base for its impact on patient safety still needs to be strengthened. Questions have to be answered on whether there is an optimum time for this learning? Should it be pre or post registration? What effect is there on collaborative practice? Does collaborative practice exist? What are the best models for IPE and collaborative practice? 

This special edition of the journal will investigate the impact of IPE on pharmacy training and practice but also the impact pharmacy has had on IPE.

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Keywords

  • Interprofessional education
  • Collaborative practice
  • Interprofessional working
  • Transdisciplinary models

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Experiences of Pharmacy Trainees from an Interprofessional Immersion Training
by Daubney Boland, Traci White and Eve Adams
Pharmacy 2018, 6(2), 37; https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy6020037 - 25 Apr 2018
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Interprofessional education is essential in that it helps healthcare disciplines better utilize each other and provide team-based collaboration that improves patient care. Many pharmacy training programs struggle to implement interprofessional education. This purpose of the study was to examine the effect of a [...] Read more.
Interprofessional education is essential in that it helps healthcare disciplines better utilize each other and provide team-based collaboration that improves patient care. Many pharmacy training programs struggle to implement interprofessional education. This purpose of the study was to examine the effect of a 30-h interprofessional training that included pharmacy students to determine if the training helped these students build valuable knowledge and skills while working alongside other health care professions. The interprofessional training included graduate-level trainees from pharmacy, behavioral health, nursing, and family medicine programs where the trainees worked within teams to build interprofessional education competencies based on the Interprofessional Education Collaborative core competencies. Sixteen pharmacy trainees participated in the training and completed pre- and post-test measures. Data were collected over a two-year period with participants completing the Team Skills Scale and the Interprofessional Attitudes Scale. Paired sample t-tests indicated that, after this training, pharmacy trainees showed significant increases in feeling better able to work in healthcare teams and valuing interprofessional practice. Full article
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Pharmacists as Interprofessional Collaborators and Leaders through Clinical Pathways
by Sherine Ismail, Mohamed Osman, Rayf Abulezz, Hani Alhamdan and K. H. Mujtaba Quadri
Pharmacy 2018, 6(1), 24; https://doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy6010024 - 16 Mar 2018
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Pharmacists possess pivotal competencies and expertise in developing clinical pathways (CPs). We present a tertiary care facility experience of pharmacists vis-a-vis interprofessional collaboration for designing and implementing CPs. We participated in the development of CPs as leading members of a collaborative team of [...] Read more.
Pharmacists possess pivotal competencies and expertise in developing clinical pathways (CPs). We present a tertiary care facility experience of pharmacists vis-a-vis interprofessional collaboration for designing and implementing CPs. We participated in the development of CPs as leading members of a collaborative team of healthcare professionals. We reviewed literature, aligning it with hospital formulary and institutional standards, and participated in weekly team meetings for six months. Several tools and services were adapted to guide prescribing and standardization of care through time-bound order sets. Fifteen CPs leading to admissions in medical wards were developed and integrated into Computerized Prescriber Order Entry (CPOE) sets. Tools and services included (1) reporting of creatinine clearance to guide optimum dosing; (2) advisory flags for dosing and infusion rates; (3) piloting of medication reconciliation and counseling services before discharge were initiated; (4) Arabic drug leaflets were designed to educate patients; and (5) five CPs were included in pragmatic randomized control trials with a clinical pharmacist as co-investigator. Clinical pharmacists conducted continuous orientation to various healthcare professionals throughout the process. CPs provide unique opportunities for establishing and evaluating patient-centered pharmaceutical services and allow clinical pharmacists to demonstrate interprofessional leadership in collaboration with multidisciplinary teams. Full article
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