Navigating Interprofessional Spaces: Experiences of Clients Living with Parkinson's Disease, Students and Clinical Educators.

Navigating Interprofessional Spaces: Experiences of Clients Living with Parkinson's Disease, Students and Clinical Educators. J Interprof Care. 2017 Dec 21;:1-9 Authors: Friary P, Tolich J, Morgan J, Stewart J, Gaeta H, Flood B, McNaughton S Abstract When students in interprofessional education and practice programmes partner with clients living with a long-term condition, the potential for a better client and educational experience is enhanced when the focus is on client self-management and empowerment. This paper reports the findings from a phenomenological study into the experiences of five clients, six speech language therapy students, eight physiotherapy students, and two clinical educators participating in a university clinic-based interprofessional programme for clients living in the community with Parkinson's Disease. Collaborative hermeneutic analysis was conducted to interpret the texts from client interviews and student and clinical educator focus groups held immediately after the programme. The overarching narratives emerging from the texts were: "client-centredness"; "who am I/why am I here?"; "understanding interprofessional collaboration and development"; "personal and professional development, awareness of self and others"; "the environment - safety and support". These narratives and the meanings within them were drawn together to develop a tentative metaphor-based framework of "navigating interprofessional spaces" sh...
Source: Journal of Interprofessional Care - Category: Health Management Tags: J Interprof Care Source Type: research