Finding Strengths in Our Differences: How Interprofessional Training Prepares Clinicians for Collaborative Practice (SA507)

Clinical practice guidelines for quality palliative care highlight the interprofessional nature of palliative care, recognizing that clinicians in each discipline must understand the unique perspectives and strengths of their colleagues in order to provide comprehensive collaborative care. Despite this, finding clinicians proficient in interprofessional collaborative practice proves difficult due to the lack of interprofessional training programs. Instead, palliative care clinicians often resort to learning to work with team members of different disciplines in the course of delivering complex clinical care to seriously ill patients and their families.

Source: Journal of Pain and Symptom Management - January 23, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Elliot Rabinowitz, Katharine Brock, Jenna Freitas, Caitlin Scanlon, Shih-Ning Liaw, Jane deLima Thomas Source Type: research