Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Domains*
Values / Ethics for Interprofessional practice: Values that should undergird relationships among the professions, joint relationships with patients / clients, the quality of cross-professional exchange, and interprofessional ethical considerations
- Mutual respect
- Honesty and trusting relationships
- Diversity and expertise of each profession
- Interprofessional ethics
Roles and responsibilities for collaborative practice: understanding of how professional roles and responsibility complement each other in patient centered and community oriented care
- Understand own role and role of others
- Communicate roles and responsibilities with patient /client
- Communicate with other professionals
- Must maintain expertise and competency
- Engage others to meet patient / client needs
- Recognize abilities and limitations
Interprofessional communication: Being able to effectively communicate with other healthcare providers is important given the movement toward better integrated care
- Choose effective communication tools
- Communicate in a form that is understandable limiting jargon
- Listen actively
- Give timely sensitive feedback
- Use respectful language
Teamwork and team based practice: Being a good team player working towards the shared goals for care with patients or communities.
- Reduce gaps and redundancies in care
- Avoid errors
- Shared problem solving, decision making, and accountability
- Apply leadership practices that support collaborative practice
- Constructively manage disagreements / conflict
* Interprofessional Education Collaborative Expert Panel. (2011). Core competencies for interprofessional collaborative practice: Report of an epert panel. Washington D.C.: Interprofessional Education Collaborative.