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Examining the implementation of collaborative competencies in a critical care setting: Key challenges for enacting competency-based education.
- Source :
- Journal of Interprofessional Care; Jul2018, Vol. 32 Issue 4, p407-415, 9p, 2 Charts
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- Interprofessional collaboration is recognised as an important factor in improving patient care in intensive care units (ICUs). Competency frameworks, and more specifically interprofessional competency frameworks, are a key strategy being used to support the development of attitudes, knowledge, skills, and behaviours needed for an interprofessional approach to care. However, evidence for the application of competencies is limited. This study aimed to extend our empirically based understanding of the significance of interprofessional competencies to actual clinical practice in an ICU. An ethnographic approach was employed to obtain an in-depth insight into healthcare providers’ perspectives, behaviours, and interactions of interprofessional collaboration in a medical surgical ICU in a community teaching hospital in Canada. Approximately 160 hours of observations were undertaken and 24 semi-structured interviews with healthcare workers were conducted over a period of 6 months. Data were analysed using a directed content approach where two national competency frameworks were used to help generate an understanding of the practice of interprofessional collaboration. Healthcare professionals demonstrated numerous instances of interprofessional communication, role understandings, and teamwork in the ICU setting, which supported a number of key collaborative competencies. However, organisational factors such as pressures for discharge and patient flow, staffing, and lack of prioritisation for interprofessional learning undermined competencies designed to improve collaboration and teamwork. The findings demonstrate that interprofessional competencies can play an important role in promoting knowledge, attitudes, skills, and behaviours needed. However, competencies that promote interprofessional collaboration are dependent on a range of contextual factors that enable (or impede) individuals to actually enact these competencies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- COMMUNITY health services
ABILITY
ACADEMIC medical centers
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
CLINICAL competence
COMMUNICATION
CONCEPTUAL structures
CRITICAL care medicine
ETHNOLOGY
WORKING hours
INTENSIVE care units
INTERPROFESSIONAL relations
INTERVIEWING
LEARNING
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL personnel
MEDICAL practice
PHYSICIANS
PROFESSIONS
SOCIAL skills
TEAMS in the workplace
TRAINING
EMPIRICAL research
OCCUPATIONAL roles
DISCHARGE planning
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13561820
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Interprofessional Care
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 131257482
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13561820.2017.1401987