IPCP and IPE

Intraprofessional

within one profession

Silo Concept

Educating health professionals exclusively within their individual practice disciplines without cross-disciplinary integration.

Profession

a calling requiring specialized knowledge and often long and intensive academic preparation

Interprofessional Education (IPE)

When students from two or more professions learn about, from, and with each other.

Interprofessional Collaborative Practice (IPCP)

When multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds work together to deliver quality care.

Interprofessionality

Process where professionals continuously share knowledge to deliver cohesive, integrated patient-centered care.

Healthcare Team (Parallel Practice)

Group of providers working independently of each other in patient care without shared decision-making.

Interprofessional Collaborative Healthcare Team

Team members sharing decision-making responsibilities to collaboratively develop and deliver patient care.

Three Benefits of Interprofessional Collaboration

Reduces medical errors, improves patient outcomes, and improves patient satisfaction.

Interprofessional Collaboration is essential for:

Safe, High Quality, Accessible, Patient-Centered Care

Principles of IPE and IPCP

• Patient/Family Centered

• Community/Population Oriented

• Relationship Focused

• Process Oriented

- outcome driven

Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) Triple Aim Focus

improving experience of care, population health, and per capita cost.

4 Core Competencies for IPCP

Values/Ethics, Roles/Responsibilities, Communication, and Teams and Teamwork.

Values/Ethics (VE) Competency

Work with team members to maintain a climate of shared values, ethical conduct, and mutual respect

Roles/Responsibilities (RR) Competency

Use the knowledge of one's own role and team members' expertise to address health outcomes

Communication (C) Competency

Communicate in a responsive, responsible, respectful, and

compassionate manner with team members

Teams and Teamwork (TT) Competency

Apply values and principles of team science to adapt one's own role in a variety of team settings

Is taking a shared classroom lecture IPE?

No; simple co-location without learning from, about, and with each other is not IPE.

Is a combined case-study discharge planning event IPE?

Yes; students actively interact, share expertise, and collaborate across disciplines to solve patient cases.

Pre-licensure Education

Learning that occurs during formal academic years prior to receiving an independent practice license.

Post-licensure Education

Learning undertaken after receiving an independent license, including continuing professional development.

IPEC Goal for IPE

To prepare healthcare students for deliberately working together to build a safer healthcare system.