It starts with a strong foundation: constructing collaborative interprofessional teams in primary health care.
J Interprof Care
; 35(4): 514-520, 2021.
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| ID: mdl-32716727
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this qualitative study was to explore how team members experience and enact interprofessional teamwork in primary health care (PHC). Fifty-three participants (from eight teams), members of the Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario (AFHTO), were interviewed; interviews were audiotaped and transcribed verbatim. The data analyses used an iterative process with individual and team analysis. Findings revealed components that comprise the foundation and pillars of collaborative interprofessional teamwork in PHC. First, participants described a shared philosophsy of teamwork with six elements values, vision, and mission; collaboration; communication; trust; respect and team members that 'fit.' Second, findings revealed three 'pillars.' The first pillar, leadership, included the elements of specific leadership attributes, such as leaders encouraging teamwork, mitigating conflict, and facilitating change. In the second pillar, participants described three elements of team building formal and informal team building activities plus how these activities benefited both the team and patient care. The last pillar, optimizing scope of practice, included the elements of recognizing, appreciating, utilizing, and expanding team members' scope of practice. While each component and their concomitant elements can be enacted individually, collectively applying all elements produces collaborative interprofessional teamwork in primary health care.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Equipe de Assistência ao Paciente
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Relações Interprofissionais
Tipo de estudo:
Qualitative_research
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Interprof Care
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SERVICOS DE SAUDE
Ano de publicação:
2021
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Article
País de afiliação:
Canadá