Interprofessional Practice Study Guide: Key Concepts and Team Collaboration, Exams of Nursing

This study guide covers inter- and intraprofessional practice, emphasizing the importance of healthcare providers working in teams. It explores benefits, barriers to collaboration, and definitions of interprofessional and intraprofessional teams. Key concepts include collaborative practice, the controlled acts model, and the cihc's national interprofessional competency framework. The guide also addresses factors influencing collaboration, turf protection, role clarity, and leadership within interprofessional teams, providing a comprehensive overview for students and practitioners in healthcare.

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2024/2025

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Inter- and Intraprofessional Practice Complete
Reading & Study Guide 2025
In 1978, the Declaration of _____________ identified that primary health care and improvement in
health of the world's populations would rely in part on the ability of healthcare providers to work in
teams. ANSWER ✔✨---Declaration of Alma-Ata
What are some of the benefits of interprofessional care? ANSWER ✔✨---- Improved healthcare
delivery
-Reduced patient morbidity and mortality
T/F: The concept of interprofessional collaboration can be difficult to implement and measure.
ANSWER ✔✨---True
What are some barriers to collaboration? ANSWER ✔✨---- Macrolevel restrictions impacting
microlevel processes (IE outdated legislation, regulatory mechanisms, and practice protection)
- Issues of role clarity and understanding the scope and function of various roles
Interprofessional Team defined. ANSWER ✔✨---Comprises different healthcare disciplines working
together toward common goals to meet the needs of a patient population. Team members divide the
work based on their scope of practice, they share information to support one another's work and
coordinate processes and interventions to provide a number of services and programs.
Increased knowledge of different professionals' roles and functions, and how they can be optimized for
patient care, is required of interprofessional team members.
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Inter- and Intraprofessional Practice – Complete

Reading & Study Guide 2025

In 1978, the Declaration of _____________ identified that primary health care and improvement in health of the world's populations would rely in part on the ability of healthcare providers to work in teams. ANSWER ✔✨---Declaration of Alma-Ata What are some of the benefits of interprofessional care? ANSWER ✔✨---- Improved healthcare delivery

  • Reduced patient morbidity and mortality T/F: The concept of interprofessional collaboration can be difficult to implement and measure. ANSWER ✔✨---True What are some barriers to collaboration? ANSWER ✔✨---- Macrolevel restrictions impacting microlevel processes (IE outdated legislation, regulatory mechanisms, and practice protection)
  • Issues of role clarity and understanding the scope and function of various roles Interprofessional Team defined. ANSWER ✔✨---Comprises different healthcare disciplines working together toward common goals to meet the needs of a patient population. Team members divide the work based on their scope of practice, they share information to support one another's work and coordinate processes and interventions to provide a number of services and programs. Increased knowledge of different professionals' roles and functions, and how they can be optimized for patient care, is required of interprofessional team members.

Intraprofessional Team defined. ANSWER ✔✨---Composed of different nurses collaborating with one another. What is collaborative practice? ANSWER ✔✨---An interprofessional process for communication and decision making that enables the separate and shared knowledge and skills of the care providers to synergistically influence the client/care provided Describe "Collaboration" ANSWER ✔✨---Has been described as a complex, voluntary, and dynamic process with underlying concepts of power, interdependency, sharing, partnership, and process. Through collaboration, interprofessional teams should be able to accomplish more than individuals working alone or in tandem. In the 1500s, professions were developed through _________ to "protect and promote their members interests through the ownership of knowledge." ANSWER ✔✨---Craft guides. Through these guides arose the healthcare professions. Note: nursing did not professionalize until almost a century after medicine; thus the division of work was not intentionally determined but developed over time through the influence of political and economic factors. How can interprofessional education help students? ANSWER ✔✨---Help students to learn about one another's disciplines, core principles, or philosophies to identify collaborative methods for solving problems, develop a shared vision of health, and facilitate common documentation practices. CNA's definition of "Scope of Practice". ANSWER ✔✨---"Activities nurses are authorized, educated and competent to perform". Grounded in provincial or territorial legislation and regulations, "the registered nurse (RN) scope of practice is complemented by standards, guidelines, policy positions, and ethical standards from jurisdictional nursing regulatory bodies." On an intraprofessional team, RNs are responsible to.. ANSWER ✔✨---Make decisions about what functions team members perform in relation to providing high quality patient care. In various staff mix models, there are ratios of RNs to practical nurses, as well as unregulated care provided (IE healthcare assistants or aides). In such settings, RNs are responsible for delegating tasks regarding patient care to these team members.

  • In every situation, the domains of patient/family/community-centered care and interprofessional communication are relevant and consistently influence and support the other four domains
  • The framework was designed so that any professional can learn and apply the competencies, regardless of skill or practice setting
  • Interprofessional learning is an additive and continuous process that begins prelicensure When considering the competencies required to achieve interprofessional collaboration, it is also important to identify the factors the influence collaboration. Martin-Misener and Valatis described the factors influencing collaboration between primary care and public health, which can be organized in three separate layers: ANSWER ✔✨---1) Interactional
  1. Organizational 3)Systemic Note: Leaders, managers, and followers have important roles in facilitating interprofessional collaboration at the organizational and interpersonal levels of their health care setting. Examples of systemic factors: ANSWER ✔✨---- Government involvement
  • Policy and fit with local needs
  • Funding and resource factors
  • Power and control issues
  • Education and training Examples of organizational factors: ANSWER ✔✨---- Lack of a common agenda
  • Knowledge and resource limitations
  • Leadership, management, and accountability issues
  • Geographic proximity of partners
  • Shared protocols, tools, and information sharing Examples of interactional factors: ANSWER ✔✨---- Shared purpose, philosophy, and beliefs
  • Clear roles and positive relationships
  • Effective communication and decision-making strategies

What does "Turf Protection" look like? ANSWER ✔✨---Can be identified when one profession identifies that a particular function falls within their scope only, such as physicians opposing midwife practice or pharmacist prescribing In 2000, it was recommended that Manitoba pass _____________. This was done in response to______________? ANSWER ✔✨---1) Whistle blowing legislation to protect health care professionals from reporting legitimate concerns about unsafe practices

  1. pediatric cardiac surgery inquest of 12 deaths in 1994 at a Winnipeg hospital Define "Role Clarity" ANSWER ✔✨---Role clarity is when an individual understands his or her own role and that of others and applies this understanding while performing the role, communicating within the role, collaborating with others, and delivering care. How can healthcare providers avoid following a silo approach? ANSWER ✔✨---1) By providing patient-centered care. Patient-centered care is an approach in which the patient is viewed as a whole person; it is not just about delivering services and involves advocacy, empowerment, and respects the patient's autonomy, voice, self-determination, and participation in decision making.
  2. By evaluating their role in the local context. Nurses on interprofessional teams can evaluate their role and professional identify within their own team and reevaluate when team composition or vision changes. What requisite abilities are necessary to provide leadership within an interprofessional team? ANSWER ✔✨---- Knowledge of the competencies of nurses as set out by regulation and employers
  • A willingness to share leadership roles and functions
  • Role modelling of collaborative behaviours
  • Strong skills in change management and implementing processes to resolve disagreements