LibGuides: BSN: Professional Collaboration

Professional Collaboration

Key messages from the 2010 World Health Organization's Framework for action on interprofessional education & collaborative practice:

Interprofessional education occurs when students from two or more professions learn about, from and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes.
Interprofessional education is a necessary step in preparing a “collaborative practice-ready” health workforce that is better prepared to respond to local health needs.

[WHO Study Group on Inteprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice. (2010, September 1). Framework for action on interprofessional education & collaborative practice. World Health Organization. https://www.who.int/publications/i/item/framework-for-action-on-interprofessional-education-collaborative-practice]

In 2009 six national education associations of schools of the health professions formed a collaborative to promote and encourage constituent efforts that would advance substantive interprofessional learning experiences to help prepare future health professionals for enhanced team-based care of patients and improved population health outcomes. These organizations that represent higher education in allopathic and osteopathic medicine, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, and public health created core competencies for interprofessional collaborative practice to guide curricula development across health professions schools.
IPEC core competencies have been widely disseminated throughout the health professions and embedded into both curriculum and accreditation standards.
IPEC now represents 21 national health professions associations.

[Interprofessional Education Collaborative. n.d. About Us. https://www.ipecollaborative.org/about-us]

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