Abstract
This article was migrated. The article was marked as recommended. Interest in Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) in health care is increasing, as concerns about patient safety, resource shortages, and effective and efficient care have become explicit priorities. Although there are many exemplars of Interprofessional education (IPE) for collaborative, patient-centered care, there is little in the literature to describe competencies for an Interprofessional collaborative practitioner. Although there are many perspectives on the concept of Interprofessional collaboration, there is scarce literature on the subject related to its application in health education programs. This article describes two Interprofessional competency frameworks that have been developed in Canada and Qatar. These particular frameworks are highlighted because of College of the North Atlantic's (CNA-Q) tie to Canada as a Canadian College operating within Qatar. The frameworks, which have been respectively applied within their own contexts, offer opportunities for the application of Interprofessional competencies elsewhere in the worldwide. The models proposed are reviewed and their utility for educators and practitioners is discussed. The first framework is a Canadian competency framework for IPC that: (1) considers descriptions of collaborative practice and (2) uses existing literature to support a model for describing competencies for collaborative practice. The second framework of Interprofessional health competencies developed in Doha, Qatar originated from a National Priorities Research Project supported by the Qatar National Research Fund. It builds upon a model developed by Qatar University (QU) ( El-Awaisi et al., 2017) and the Canadian National Interprofessional Competency Framework for Collaborative Practice ( Johnson, et al., 2015). It provides guidance for implementation of IPE in pre- and post-licensure settings.
Highlights
Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) is recognized as a means of improving patient outcomes and fiscal effectiveness of care in a variety of settings that may include primary health care, acute care, rehabilitation, and community care (McPherson, 2001)
Complex health care environments faced with issues related to patient safety, human resource shortages, and increasing health care needs compound the challenge of IPC
The Qatar Interprofessional Health Council (QIHC) rolled out a series of panel discussions and open town-hall forums to introduce Interprofessional education (IPE) to health care students, educators and administrative staff at Qatar University (QU), University of Calgary-Qatar (UC-Q), CNA-Q and Weil Cornell Medical Center Qatar (WCMC-Q)
Summary
Interprofessional collaboration (IPC) is recognized as a means of improving patient outcomes and fiscal effectiveness of care in a variety of settings that may include primary health care, acute care, rehabilitation, and community care (McPherson, 2001). In a qualitative study on IPE, Wilbur and Kelly (2015), found that students from Qatar’s nursing and pharmacy programs who collaborated on IPE learning, identified value and importance in participating in IPE activities They indicated that IPE contributed to competency learning and improved professional practice and patient outcomes. Adoption of Interprofessional competencies into health care professional education programs will occur at different rates depending upon the level of learner/practitioner and the complexity of learning tasks. By integrating the competencies into a framework, learning experiences can become evolutionary in nature, allowing learners and practitioners to achieve competencies for collaborative practice in different ways, at different levels, and in different contexts It represents a part of the lifelong continuum of Interprofessional learning at pre- and post-licensure levels and supports curricular development and performance assessment along this continuum.
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