Collaborative Practice

Collaborative Practice

Multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds working together with patients, families, carers, and communities to deliver highest quality of care

Why does collaborative practice matter?

Strengthens health systems and improves health outcomes

Quality of care, patients outcomes, health care system function and decreased costs

what can collaborative team based care improve?

Communication, stress levels, sense of teamwork, cooperation across organizations, efficient and effective delivery of care, flexibility in workforce

What can collaborative team based care reduce?

Client complications, length of hospital stay, hospital admissions, staff turnover, mortality rates, clinical error rates, conflict

Types of healthcare teams

Unidisciplinary, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, interprofessional, transdisciplinary

Unidisciplinary

A single provider group working within a defined scope

Multidisciplinary

Providers from different disciplines and perspectives working independently, parallel, or sequentially

Interdisciplinary

Providers working together through a discipline specific basis, teams have one or more leaders

Interprofessional

Providers combine unique knowledge and purposely interact to work and learn together, and with patients, to achieve a shared goal

Transdisciplinary

Professionals from multiple disciplines where professional boundaries are blurred, and perspective transcend each other to form a new holistic approach

Durable skills (And examples)

Skills not specific to on discipline or area of training but are life skills

Eg. Time management, teamwork, leadership, communication, critical thinking, worth ethic, creativity

How do we achieve successful collaborative practice?

Begins with interprofessional education

WHO - “interprofessional collaboration in education and practice is an innovative strategy that will play an important role in mitigating the global health crisis”