Faculty of Health Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia, Australia.
Nurse Educ Today. 2011 Aug;31(6):571-6. doi: 10.1016/j.nedt.2010.09.008. Epub 2010 Oct 30.
Nurses and other health professionals are required to demonstrate broad levels of expertise and service to ensure quality patient-centred health care. Interprofessional practice aligned with interprofessional education (IPE) has been promoted as a vehicle to promote broad levels of expertise. However, challenges remain for universities and other higher education institutions to successfully provide IPE opportunities for students. This paper presents perceptions of academic staff towards IPE from one Australian multi-campus health faculty. Perceptions were collected using interviews and two workshops. Findings are themed under the categories of faculty barriers, industry challenges and future opportunities. The perceptions of one health faculty regarding the fundamental factors required for IPE success were executive leadership of IPE, a supportive funding framework and an IPE based curricula. Nursing education can play a key role in embracing and leading future IPE approaches given that nurses are the numerically dominant health professional group and work collaboratively with other professionals to deliver patient-centred care.
护士和其他卫生专业人员需要展示广泛的专业知识和服务水平，以确保以患者为中心的高质量医疗保健。与跨专业教育 (IPE) 一致的跨专业实践已被推广为促进广泛专业知识的手段。然而，大学和其他高等教育机构仍然面临着为学生提供 IPE 机会的挑战。本文介绍了澳大利亚一个多校区卫生学院的学术人员对 IPE 的看法。使用访谈和两次研讨会收集了意见。研究结果的主题是教师障碍、行业挑战和未来机遇。一所卫生学院对 IPE 成功所需的基本因素的看法是 IPE 的执行领导力、支持性的资金框架和以 IPE 为基础的课程。鉴于护士是数量上占主导地位的卫生专业群体，并且与其他专业人员合作提供以患者为中心的护理，因此护理教育可以在接受和引领未来的 IPE 方法方面发挥关键作用。
