Center for Interprofessional Education and Practice: Articles and Journals

The changing landscape of health care continues to grow more diverse. As young health professionals move into clinical practice and face challenging health demands and increasing health care costs, they must be prepared to work in interprofessional teams despite a lack of experience in team-based skills. Leadership in Interprofessional Health Education and Practice represents a collective response to this problem from educators, clinicians, and community health leaders acting as a resource for interprofessional education and practice. Divided into five sections, this book includes the necessary information to encourage dialogue, debate, and action along with models for community engagement in interprofessional education needed to meet the health care needs for the present and the future

Successful interdisciplinary team practice for persons with developmental disabilities -evaluation, programming, and monitoring progress- requires that each team member understand and respect the contributions of the others. This handbook explains the professions most often represented on interdisciplinary teams: their natures, concerns, and roles within the interdisciplinary context.

PROMOTING PARTNERSHIP FOR HEALTH

This book forms part of a series entitled Promoting Partnership for Health publishedin association with the UK Centre for the Advancement of Interprofessional Education (CAIPE). The series explores partnership for health from policy, practice and educational perspectives. Whilst strongly advocating the imperative driving collaboration in healthcare, it adopts a pragmatic approach. Far from accepting established ideas and approaches, the series alerts readers to the pitfalls and ways to avoid them.

Collaboration Across the Disciplines in Health Care brings together seasoned professionals from the disciplines of medicine, nursing, public health, health services and administration, and other areas, who present their diverse perspectives on collaboration across the spectrum of the healthcare fields. Using a learning-centered approach, this timely resource helps the reader develop communication skills and prepares them to work inter-professionally with those who have different perspectives and thought processes. Perfect for senior-level undergraduate and graduate courses in health services administration, allied health, and nursing, this current and engaging text offers experiential activities to facilitate learning.