Exploring the use of curbside consultations for interprofessional collaboration and clinical decision-making.

Exploring the use of curbside consultations for interprofessional collaboration and clinical decision-making. J Interprof Care. 2020 Jul 02;:1-8 Authors: Papermaster AE, Champion JD Abstract Nurse practitioners utilize curbside consultation, an interprofessional collaboration communication process in which one clinician seeks advice from another, in clinical decision-making practices. Nevertheless, this process is not well-understood. A qualitative design with individual open-ended interviews was used to explore the phenomenon of curbside consultation among nurse practitioners for clinical decision-making. Twenty primary care and specialty nurse practitioners participated. Participants were recruited via purposive sampling from in-patient and out-patient settings in order to reach saturation of themes. Using inductive content analyses, the findings revealed that nurse practitioners made multiple decisions in the course of information-seeking and its application during the curbside consultation process. Motivated by the patient's best interest, nurse practitioners provided advice in the curbside consultation exchange and sought answers to questions encountered in clinical decision-making. Multiple resources were often utilized with curbside consultation frequently evolving into formal consultation. Dynamics of curbside consultation included (a)synchronous approaches including text, e-mail, telephone, or face-to-face processes. Once in...
Source: Journal of Interprofessional Care - Category: Health Management Tags: J Interprof Care Source Type: research