Towards interprofessional patient care: Health profession students exploring interprofessional collaboration in group meetings in joint clinical placement
This dissertation examines how students learned interprofessional work in patient care on their own during a joint practice period. It was an observational study. Audio recordings and notes from the observations and conversations with the students were analysed and then interpreted on the basis of socio-cultural learning theory.
The study shows that the students established an experimental partnership where they developed mutual engagement, a multi-professional knowledge base and multidimensional patient descriptions. This can be interpreted as moving towards interprofessional patient care. Knowledge about the students’ interaction can help us to understand more of what interprofessional learning is, which is unclear today, and in this way contribute to the development of interprofessional learning activities.
Peer -Reviewed publications from the PhD project:
Anita Carin Gudmundsen, Bente Norbye, Madeleine Abrandt Dahlgren, Aud Obstfelder :
Interprofessional student groups using patient documentation to facilitate interprofessional collaboration in clinical practice - A field study. In Nurse Education Today 2020 ARKIV / DOI
Interprofessional Education: Students´Learning of Joint Patient Care. In Professions and Professionalism 2019 ARKIV / DOI
Interprofessional student meetings in municipal health service - Mutual learning towards a community of practice in patient care. In Journal of Interprofessional Care 2018 ARKIV / DOI
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UiT The Arctic University of Norway