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  • Open Access
117 Views
15 Pages

Teamwork as an Interprofessional Competency for Collaborative Hospital Practice

  • Laura Andrian Leal,
  • Ivaneia Alves Pereira Sobrinho,
  • Luan Gagossian Savóia,
  • José Carlos Carvalho,
  • Fabiana Faleiros and
  • Silvia Helena Henriques

26 February 2026

Background/Objectives: This study aimed to analyze the perceptions and experiences of health professionals regarding teamwork as an interprofessional competency within the context of Intensive Care Units (ICUs) in a Brazilian public teaching hospital...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,234 Views
17 Pages

A key prerequisite for implementing biopsychosocial exercise therapy concepts as parts of multimodal rehabilitation programs is interprofessional teamwork. Based on a nationwide survey of exercise therapy using a mixed methods design, it is of intere...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
12,764 Views
12 Pages

18 August 2017

Organizations value teamwork and collaboration as they strive to build culture and attain their goals and objectives. Sports provide a useful and easily accessible means to study teamwork. Interprofessional collaborative practice (IPCP) has been iden...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,962 Views
10 Pages

Effects of Cross-Training on Medical Teams’ Teamwork and Collaboration: Use of Simulation

  • Ashley R. Hedges,
  • Heather J. Johnson,
  • Lawrence R. Kobulinsky,
  • Jamie L. Estock,
  • David Eibling and
  • Amy L. Seybert

19 January 2019

Previous research in the US Navy demonstrated that cross-training enhances teamwork and interpersonal collaboration. Limited data exists on cross-training effectiveness in medical education. This research aimed to assess whether cross-training would...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,207 Views
15 Pages

Student Expectations and Outcomes in Virtual vs. In-Person Interprofessional Simulations: A Qualitative Analysis

  • Padmavathy Ramaswamy,
  • Abbey M. Bachmann,
  • Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer,
  • Chasisty L. Gilder,
  • Samuel E. Neher and
  • Jennifer L. Swails

20 March 2025

Background: Health-related programs frequently integrate interprofessional education (IPE) into their training. The COVID-19 pandemic transitioned many IPE programs online, making it essential to assess student expectations and perceived learning out...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,175 Views
13 Pages

Defining Physician–Nurse Efforts toward Collaboration as Perceived by Medical Students

  • Hanan H. Dahlawi,
  • May M. Al obaidellah,
  • Najwa Abdur Rashid,
  • Amal A. Alotaibi,
  • Eman M. Al-Mussaed,
  • Mary Mae M. Cheung,
  • Sameera Abuaish and
  • Mary Anne Wong Cordero

Collaboration between physicians and nurses is essential to healthcare delivery and is associated with high-quality patient care, greater patient satisfaction, and better health outcomes. Hence, it is imperative that doctors and nurses have a particu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,946 Views
10 Pages

Promoting Older Adult Health with Interprofessional Education through Community Based Health Screening

  • Susan Ostertag,
  • Jade Bosic-Reiniger,
  • Chris Migliaccio and
  • Rachael Zins

IPHARM (ImProving Health Among Rural Montanans) is a university-based community health screening program that provides valuable interprofessional teamwork and clinical skills training for health care students while addressing the health of older adul...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
10,249 Views
11 Pages

Communication failures were a leading cause of sentinel events in the operation room due to frequently the communication breakdown occurs between physicians and nurses. This study explored the perspectives of surgical teams (nurses, physicians, and a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
497 Views
14 Pages

Teaming for Patient Safety: Interprofessional Root Cause Analysis and Action Plan

  • Holly Olson,
  • Melodee Deutsch,
  • Chad Kawakami,
  • Alison Miyasaki,
  • Sheri Tokumaru,
  • Joanne R. Loos,
  • Susan Steinemann,
  • Lee Buenconsejo-Lum,
  • Kamal Masaki and
  • Lorrie C. K. Wong

12 December 2025

Background: Patient safety through root cause analyses and action planning (RCA2) is often taught in healthcare system-specific formats, in ways that are not applicable to interprofessional teams. The purpose of this article is to describe and evalua...

  • Study Protocol
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,430 Views
13 Pages

26 September 2023

Background: Preventable medical errors caused by ineffective teamwork are substantial contributors in the majority of patient harm events. Nonetheless, the interprofessional education (IPE) research to date has not reported on within-group interactio...

  • Project Report
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,437 Views
20 Pages

Evaluation of an Interprofessional Blended Learning Course Focusing on Communication within Veterinary Teams

  • Sylva Agnete Charlotte Heise,
  • Sandra Wissing,
  • Verena Nerschbach,
  • Ellen Preussing,
  • Andrea Tipold and
  • Christin Kleinsorgen

27 February 2024

Based on the importance of communication and teamwork in veterinary practice, we explored the impact of a blended learning course designed to enhance interprofessional communication skills among veterinary students and apprentice assistants. The blen...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
11,783 Views
23 Pages

An Integrative Review of Interprofessional Collaboration in Health Care: Building the Case for University Support and Resources and Faculty Engagement

  • Deborah Witt Sherman,
  • Monica Flowers,
  • Alliete Rodriguez Alfano,
  • Fernando Alfonso,
  • Maria De Los Santos,
  • Hallie Evans,
  • Arturo Gonzalez,
  • Jean Hannan,
  • Nicolette Harris and
  • Sandra Walsh
  • + 3 authors

22 October 2020

Background: In 2010, the World Health Organization issued a clarion call for action on interprofessional education and collaboration. This call came forty years after the concept of interprofessional collaboration (IPC) was introduced. Aim: To conduc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
11,117 Views
20 Pages

5 March 2021

Many studies have highlighted the importance of community and cooperation in inclusive education. However, traditionally, teachers are trained to manage their classes alone. Along with the aspirations of inclusive education, there is high pressure to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,543 Views
19 Pages

Measuring Stereotypes in Interprofessional Education: A Pilot High-Fidelity Simulation Study Among Postgraduate Nursing and Physician Students in a Spanish University

  • Juan Manuel Cánovas-Pallarés,
  • Sergio Nieto-Caballero,
  • Manuel Baeza-Mirete,
  • Manuel José Párraga-Ramírez and
  • Andrés Rojo-Rojo

5 December 2024

Background/Objectives: Nursing professionals are often subject to social stereotypes that can hinder effective teamwork with other healthcare professionals and limit their professional growth. Interprofessional education (IPE) enhances teamwork skill...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,549 Views
19 Pages

Interprofessional Education and Research in the Health Professions: A Systematic Review and Supplementary Topic Modeling

  • Cristian Lieneck,
  • Tiankai Wang,
  • David Gibbs,
  • Chris Russian,
  • Zo Ramamonjiarivelo and
  • Arzu Ari

23 November 2022

Interprofessional education (IPE) has grown in popularity over the years because it is effective in training future health professionals and serves as the engine of productivity in healthcare-related research. The research team, consisting of higher...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,949 Views
9 Pages

Interprofessional education is essential in that it helps healthcare disciplines better utilize each other and provide team-based collaboration that improves patient care. Many pharmacy training programs struggle to implement interprofessional educat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,832 Views
13 Pages

Italian Translation and Validation of the Readiness for Interprofessional Learning Scale (RIPLS) in an Undergraduate Healthcare Student Context

  • Florian Spada,
  • Rosario Caruso,
  • Maddalena De Maria,
  • Emiljan Karma,
  • Aisel Oseku,
  • Xhesika Pata,
  • Emanuela Prendi,
  • Gennaro Rocco,
  • Ippolito Notarnicola and
  • Alessandro Stievano

5 September 2022

Interprofessional education requires that two or more professionals learn from and with each other to allow effective collaboration and improve health outcomes. Thus far, the interprofessional collaboration of healthcare students might be assessed us...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
10,428 Views
27 Pages

A Descriptive Account of an Inter-Professional Collaborative Leadership Project

  • Maura MacPhee,
  • Li-Lu Chang,
  • Farinaz Havaei and
  • Wen-Shan Chou

17 September 2014

A collaborative project between an academic healthcare faculty and a professional development director resulted in the design, delivery and evaluation of an inter-professional collaborative leadership workshop with ongoing leadership development acti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,082 Views
13 Pages

Measuring Veterinarian Professions’ Readiness for Interprofessional Learning in a Pre- and Post-Intervention Study

  • Sylva Agnete Charlotte Heise,
  • Andrea Tipold,
  • Karl Rohn and
  • Christin Kleinsorgen

11 January 2024

The integration of interprofessional collaboration is becoming increasingly crucial in veterinary care settings, emphasising the need for interprofessional education (IPE) in veterinary programmes. This study explores the readiness for interprofessio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,464 Views
8 Pages

Communication Disparities between Nursing Home Team Members

  • Timothy W. Farrell,
  • Jorie M. Butler,
  • Gail L. Towsley,
  • Jacqueline S. Telonidis,
  • Katherine P. Supiano,
  • Caroline E. Stephens,
  • Nancy M. Nelson,
  • Alisyn L. May and
  • Linda S. Edelman

Optimal care in nursing home (NH) settings requires effective team communication. Certified nursing assistants (CNAs) interact with nursing home residents frequently, but the extent to which CNAs feel their input is valued by other team members is no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,653 Views
11 Pages

Patients’ Perspectives of Interprofessional Collaboration in Breast Cancer Unit

  • Dea Anita Ariani Kurniasih,
  • Elsa Pudji Setiawati,
  • Ivan Surya Pradipta and
  • Anas Subarnas

23 January 2023

Interprofessional teamwork provides significant benefits for patients. However, qualitative research on interprofessional collaboration in the breast cancer unit is uncommon. Therefore, a qualitative study was conducted to assess the perceptions of o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,537 Views
19 Pages

This systematic review examined the varied studies that have assessed the economic impact of pharmacist-participated medication management for nursing home residents older than 65 years of age. The articles published during 1990–2017 were found...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,387 Views
10 Pages

Integrating Diverse Disciplines to Enhance Interprofessional Competency in Healthcare Delivery

  • Tiffany Champagne-Langabeer,
  • Lee Revere,
  • Mariya Tankimovich,
  • Erica Yu,
  • Robert Spears and
  • Jennifer Lee Swails

Interprofessional education (IPE) typically involves clinical simulation exercises with students from medical and nursing schools. Yet, healthcare requires patient-centered teams that include diverse disciplines. Students from public health and infor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,678 Views
21 Pages

Designing and Evaluating a Virtual Patient Simulation—The Journey from Uniprofessional to Interprofessional Learning

  • Nataly Martini,
  • Kate Farmer,
  • Shambhavi Patil,
  • Gauis Tan,
  • Cindy Wang,
  • Lucy Wong and
  • Craig S. Webster

14 January 2019

“Ready to Practice?”(R2P) is a virtual patient simulation designed for undergraduate medical and pharmacy students. After initial prototyping, R2P developed into a screen-based virtual patient (VP) simulation with an intuitive interface u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,330 Views
11 Pages

15 September 2023

This study investigated the effects of an online interprofessional education (IPE) program on nursing students at a university in Japan. It conducted a comparative analysis between traditional face-to-face and online interventions. All students who e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,087 Views
13 Pages

Critical Care Teamwork in the Future: The Role of TeamSTEPPS® in the COVID-19 Pandemic and Implications for the Future

  • Carol A. Terregino,
  • Sugeet Jagpal,
  • Payal Parikh,
  • Archana Pradhan,
  • Paul Weber,
  • Lauren Michaels,
  • Olivia Nicastro,
  • Jared Escobar and
  • Hanin Rashid

17 February 2023

At our institution, we observed inconsistency in the application of structural facilitators for interprofessional teamwork such as handoffs and communication of contingency planning, complete formation and engagement of teams on interprofessional rou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
16,860 Views
23 Pages

Organizational Culture and Teamwork: A Bibliometric Perspective on Public and Private Organizations

  • Humberto Iván Morales-Huamán,
  • Carlos Javier Medina-Valderrama,
  • Alejandro Valencia-Arias,
  • Manuel Humberto Vasquez-Coronado,
  • Jackeline Valencia and
  • Jorge Delgado-Caramutti

20 September 2023

Research on organizational culture and teamwork is progressing substantially, and the interest in understanding culture as an organizational phenomenon and its links with other variables of organizations are perspectives that need to be considered to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,521 Views
16 Pages

Interprofessional relationships may impact the decision making of patients in a clinical setting. The objective of this study was to analyse the decision-making capabilities of patients from nurses’ perspectives of interprofessional relationships usi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,597 Views
14 Pages

Nurse Perceptions of Artists as Collaborators in Interprofessional Care Teams

  • Jill Sonke,
  • Virginia Pesata,
  • Jenny Baxley Lee and
  • John Graham-Pole

Increased attention is being given to interprofessional collaboration in healthcare, which has been shown to improve patient satisfaction, patient safety, healthcare processes, and health outcomes. As the arts and artists are being more widely incorp...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,320 Views
14 Pages

Building Safe Emergency Medical Teams with Emergency Crisis Resource Management (E-CRM): An Interprofessional Simulation-Based Study

  • Juan Manuel Cánovas-Pallarés,
  • Giulio Fenzi,
  • Pablo Fernández-Molina,
  • Lucía López-Ferrándiz,
  • Salvador Espinosa-Ramírez and
  • Vanessa Arizo-Luque

Background/Objectives: Effective teamwork is crucial for minimizing human error in healthcare settings. Medical teams, typically composed of physicians and nurses, supported by auxiliary professionals, achieve better outcomes when they possess strong...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,960 Views
20 Pages

Interprofessional Paediatric High-Fidelity Simulation Training: A Mixed Methods Study of Experiences and Readiness among Nursing and Medical Students

  • Helmut Beichler,
  • Simone Grandy,
  • Silke Neumaier,
  • Anneliese Lilgenau,
  • Hannah Schwarz and
  • Michael Wagner

7 March 2024

Background: Training in communication skills between nursing and medical students during interprofessional paediatric emergency simulation training represents a significant aspect of safe patient care. Evidence highlights that poor communication in p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,796 Views
10 Pages

Inter-Professional Collaboration and Occupational Well-Being of Physicians Who Work in Adverse Working Conditions

  • José Viruez-Soto,
  • Roberto C. Delgado Bolton,
  • Montserrat San-Martín and
  • Luis Vivanco

14 September 2021

Inter-professional collaboration, empathy and lifelong learning, components of medical professionalism, have been associated with occupational well-being in physicians. However, it is not clear whether this role persists in adverse working conditions...

  • Case Report
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,369 Views
18 Pages

It Takes a Team—Enhancing Student-Athlete Health and Well-Being through an Interprofessional Approach

  • Rebecca Steins,
  • Anthony P. Breitbach,
  • Michael Ross,
  • Erica Ciarlo,
  • Elena Melillo and
  • Olivia Brant

30 July 2024

Student-athlete well-being is a key objective for individuals working with or for university athletic departments. This paper will describe how a university athletic department used a team approach to enhancing student-athlete health and well-being....

  • Review
  • Open Access
312 Views
21 Pages

Enhancing Teamwork and Patient Safety Through TeamSTEPPS®: A Scoping Review of Benefits in Academic and Clinical Settings

  • Leonor Velez,
  • Patrícia Costa,
  • Nuno Santos,
  • Mafalda Inácio,
  • Ana Rita Figueiredo,
  • Susana Ribeiro,
  • Paulo Cruchinho,
  • Elisabete Nunes and
  • Pedro Lucas

24 February 2026

Background: Teamwork promotes the quality and safety of care. The TeamSTEPPS® program enhances communication and teamwork among healthcare professionals and students, as well as the associated benefits. Currently, there are no studies that compre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
89 Citations
23,586 Views
14 Pages

Teamwork, as the preferred method of cooperation in healthcare, became prevalent in the 1960s, and since then has been universally recognized as a measure to improve the quality of healthcare. Research indicates that medical care based on interdiscip...

  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
22,930 Views
14 Pages

Attitudes and Behavior towards Interprofessional Collaboration among Healthcare Professionals in a Large Academic Medical Center

  • Benjamin E. Ansa,
  • Sunitha Zechariah,
  • Amy M. Gates,
  • Stephanie W. Johnson,
  • Vahé Heboyan and
  • Gianluca De Leo

6 September 2020

The increasing rates of comorbidities among patients and the complexity of care have warranted interprofessional collaboration (IPC) as an important component of the healthcare structure. An initial step towards assessing the effectiveness of collabo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
9,710 Views
10 Pages

With the COVID-19 crisis and rapid increase in cases, the need for interprofessional education (IPE) and collaborative practice is more important than ever. Instructors and health professionals are exploring innovative methods to deliver IPE programs...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,285 Views
9 Pages

Replicable Interprofessional Competency Outcomes from High-Volume, Inter-Institutional, Interprofessional Simulation

  • Deborah Bambini,
  • Matthew Emery,
  • Margaret De Voest,
  • Lisa Meny and
  • Michael J. Shoemaker

25 October 2016

There are significant limitations among the few prior studies that have examined the development and implementation of interprofessional education (IPE) experiences to accommodate a high volume of students from several disciplines and from different...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,903 Views
12 Pages

9 March 2022

Therapeutic challenges regarding the population of elderly cancer patients and their heterogeneity lead to the need to implement person-centered approaches in order to optimize care strategies and adapt oncology treatments to each pattern of aging. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,283 Views
11 Pages

24 March 2023

This study aimed to measure the impact of an interprofessional education (IPE) activity on student knowledge and attitudes regarding patient safety. Two 4 h IPE activities were designed to provide students with foundational information regarding pati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,563 Views
8 Pages

A Comparison of Nursing and Pharmacy Students’ Perceptions of an Acute Care Simulation

  • Jill Pence,
  • Shannon Ashe,
  • Georges Adunlin and
  • Jennifer Beall

Patient outcomes are improved when healthcare professionals work collaboratively. In order for future professionals to have these entry-level skills, students from different disciplines must work together in scenarios simulating patient care. This pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,371 Views
12 Pages

This study explored the impact of an oncology palliative care clinical experience with older adults on social work learners. A three-member research team conducted a qualitative content analysis of reflective writings. 27 Master of Science in Social...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,685 Views
11 Pages

Objective: To assess the knowledge and perception of registered nurses regarding the scope of practice of speech-language pathologists (SLP) in Saudi Arabia. Background: Interdisciplinary collaboration is vital between the SLP and nurses due to the c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,560 Views
19 Pages

Teaching Methodologies of Gross Anatomy Education for Undergraduate Physiotherapy Students: An Updated Scoping Review

  • Mariángela Soto-Correia,
  • Gustavo Plaza-Manzano and
  • Juan Antonio Valera-Calero

27 August 2024

Gross anatomy provides essential knowledge about the structure and function of the human body. Understanding human anatomy requires specific skills from physiotherapy students to comprehend and memorize the location and relationships of anatomical st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,059 Views
24 Pages

Interprofessional Collaboration in Primary Healthcare: A Qualitative Study of General Practitioners’ and Family and Community Nurses’ Perspectives in Italy

  • Federica Dellafiore,
  • Luca Guardamagna,
  • Sihame Haoufadi,
  • Alice Cicognani,
  • Angela De Mola,
  • Benedetta Mazzone,
  • Giulia Occhini,
  • Antonio Brusini and
  • Giovanna Artioli

4 November 2025

Background: The growing burden of chronic illnesses calls for integrated and sustainable models of Primary Healthcare (PHC) that emphasize health promotion and patient-centered care. Interprofessional collaboration between General Practitioners (GPs)...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,316 Views
12 Pages

In Situ Simulation: A Strategy to Restore Patient Safety in Intensive Care Units after the COVID-19 Pandemic? Systematic Review

  • Vanesa Gómez-Pérez,
  • Dolores Escrivá Peiró,
  • David Sancho-Cantus and
  • Jorge Casaña Mohedo

14 January 2023

Background: Patient safety is a public health problem worldwide. In situ simulation (ISS) arises as a learning strategy that allows health professionals to immerse themselves in a real environment without endangering the patients until they have lear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
7,374 Views
15 Pages

Health and social care staff have had to quickly adapt, respond and improve teamwork, as a response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Our objective was to rapidly summarize the emerging evidence of new ways of working in the care of older people during this...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,304 Views
21 Pages

Aims/Background: Polypharmacy, or the concurrent intake of five or more medications, is a significant issue in clinical practice, particularly in multimorbid elderly individuals. Despite its importance for patient safety, medical education often lack...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,562 Views
14 Pages

Intention of Collaboration among Dental Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic

  • Kyriaki Hadjichambi,
  • Evie Georgiadou,
  • Vasileios Margaritis and
  • Maria Antoniadou

8 March 2022

Interpersonal communication skills (ICS) are crucial for effective dental practice and interprofessional collaboration. The current study aimed to assess the attitudes of Greek dental undergraduate students towards team working and their cooperation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,449 Views
12 Pages

Experiential learning is an important component of pharmacist education and is primarily achieved through supervised placement or simulation. This study explored senior pharmacy students’ experiential learning in an extended, immersive, gamified simu...

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