Whereas context is an important influencer on interprofessional collaboration, research is needed to investigate the real effectiveness of undergraduate programs for patientcare in clinical practice settings.
It presents initial psychometric results of a measurement scale designed for use with multiple health care provider groups in interprofessional collaboration research projects with measurement objectives.
The domains include the overarching interprofessional collaboration, values/ethics, role/responsibilities, interprofessional communication practices, and teamwork/team-based practice to promote unified taxonomy, workspaces, technology, and educational activities and evaluation (2016).
What remains unknown is how the nurse practitioner role enacts interprofessional collaboration or enables interprofessional care to promote high quality care.
Interprofessional educational experiences for baccalaureate nursing students are essential to prepare them for interprofessional communication, collaboration, and team work.
The participants stated that their interprofessional communication, collaboration and teamwork skills had improved greatly.
Effective interprofessional collaboration is required to enable interprofessional care, although within the acute care hospital setting interprofessional collaboration is considered suboptimal.
The observations of fragmented knotworking [ 10] and suboptimal interprofessional collaboration [ 14] in earlier research may be apparent because there was not a role, such as the NP, integrated into these teams.
The tool enables personalized medicine, facilitates interprofessional education and collaboration, and allows for multicenter patient-reported outcomes research.
Its mission was to enable interprofessional collaboration in health care education and practice and subsequently various research projects were launched under its auspices [ 8].
