Question

Explain how interprofessional collaboration will help reduce errors, provide higher-quality care, and increase safety. Provide an example of a current or emerging trend that will require more, or change the nature of, interprofessional collaboration.

Answer 1

Ans) Strategies to enhance interprofessional collaboration ,teamwork and communication can be successfully implemented in the acute care setting, and that they result in more efficient and effective communication. Because ineffective communication among health care team members contributes to patient harm and adverse events, interventions and implementation methods become instrumental in preventing negative patient outcomes.

- It provides the opportunity to develop, implement, and evaluate an educational program and interventions using multiple measures across diverse patient care units.

- Efforts to evaluate the strategies using additional measures are ongoing. Recommendations for future research include implementation of the strategies in different health care settings (e.g., outpatient clinics, rural hospitals, and nonacademic settings); integration of the strategies into simulation projects; longitudinal studies to determine the effectiveness and sustainability of the strategies over time; and utilizing specific patient-centered outcome measures and staff-related measures, such as satisfaction, recruitment and retention.