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drugs a. Registered Nurse b. Physician Assistant Pharmacy Technician d. Pharmacist with a general practitioner, in terms of learning about medicine? 4. Why is it important for a health professional working in a particular profession to be knowledgeable about other health professionals in different professions? 5. How can health professionals enhance their careers by joining professional organizations? 25

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4. Health care is a multifaceted activity which requires health care professionals to work together for the patient or service users in a collaborative way to deliver the desired outcome. Hospitals are complex organizations humming with activities of heterogeneous groups of people such as doctors, nurses, paramedical and administrative staff, all working with a common goal of providing health care to service users (Kaini 2005, p.1). Health care professionals work together in a collaborative manner in various forms. It involves complex interactions between two or more members of different professional disciplines (Reel and Hutchings, 2007, pp.137).

In a basic form, health care professionals consult their patients or service users and, each other as required, about the services needed by their service users. In a more complex form of care, health care professionals work more closely, identifying together with service users what care services are required, who provides them and what adjustments need to be made to the health care plan and management.

WHO (2010) asserts that ‘it is no longer enough for health workers to be professional, in the current global climate, health workers also need to be interprofessional (WHO, 2010, pp.36).

Interprofessional involves joint working and interactions between health care professionals. It is a collaborative working (Leathard, 2003) in which health care professionals share a common purpose of developing mutually negotiated goals (Payne, 2000) which are achieved through agreed care plans, management, and procedures (Colyer, 2012). For interprofessional care to happen in practice, health care professionals pool their knowledge, skills and expertise (WHO, 2010) and make joint decisions based upon the shared professional viewpoints (Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative, 2010). Kane (1983) defines the term ‘interprofessional team’ as having a common objective, differential professional contributions and a system of communication

5. A Professional Body is an organization with individual members practicing a profession or occupation in which the organization maintains oversight of the knowledge, skills, conduct, and practice of that profession or occupation. By joining a professional organization the professionals can enhance their career or professional development through continuing education. The organization will act the one's profession or work of a legal advocate (advocacy). The organization will enhance the professional's leadership development- own leadership skills for leadership positions outside after graduation.
It enhances Networking among the professionals in the same field through the new letters and Journal publications.