[Inter-Professional Communication Between Nursing Therapists and other Therapeutic Professions (Physio-, Occupation and Speech Therapy) in Neurological Early Rehabilitation]. / Interprofessionelle Kommunikation zwischen therapeutisch Pflegenden und anderen therapeutischen Berufsangehörigen (Physiotherapie, Ergotherapie und Logopädie) in der neurologischen Frührehabilitation.

ABSTRACT

PURPOSE: A comparison of inter-professional communication within the core therapeutic teams including nurses in 5 neurological early rehabilitation hospitals of one non-profit organization was supposed to indicate factors facilitating and impairing cooperation. METHODS: Data collection was conducted through analysis of architecture plans, passive participating observation in 10 wards and through partly standardized interviews (N=39). Participants were nurses, physio-, occupational and speech therapists. Data analysis used the method of Thick Description [1]. RESULTS: A permanent team, daily team conferences, treatments in cooperation, ward based training and informal talks influence interprofessional communication. Organizational and structural preconditions have effects on the quality of communication. CONCLUSION: Daily inter-professional briefings and the organization of training sessions within the team improve inter-professional communication, a confrontation nurses vs. therapists impairs it.