Background Interprofessional education is promoted as a means of enhancing future collaborative practice in healthcare. We developed a learning activity in which undergraduate medical, nursing and allied healthcare students practice interprofessional collaboration during a student-led interprofessional team meeting. Design and delivery During their clinical rotation at a family physician’s practice, each medical student visits a frail elderly patient and prepares a care plan for the patient. At a student-led interprofessional team meeting, medical, nursing and allied healthcare students jointly review these care plans. Subsequently, participating students reflect on their interprofessional collaboration during the team meeting, both collectively and individually. Every 4 weeks, six interprofessional team meetings take place. Each team comprises 9–10 students from various healthcare professions, and meets once. To date an average of 360 medical and 360 nursing and allied healthcare students have participated in this course annually. Evaluation Students mostly reported positive experiences, including the opportunity to learn with, from and about other healthcare professions in the course of jointly reviewing care plans, and feeling collectively responsible for the care of the patients involved. Additionally, students reported a better understanding of the contextual factors at hand. The variety of patient cases, diversity of participating health professions, and the course material need improvement. Conclusion Students from participating institutions confirmed that attending a student-led interprofessional team meeting had enabled them to learn with, from and about other health professions in an active role. The use of real-life cases and the educational design contributed to the positive outcome of this interprofessional learning activity.
Background: Shared decision-making is one key element of interprofessional collaboration. Communication is often considered to be the main reason for inefficient or ineffective collaboration. Little is known about group dynamics in the process of shared decision-making in a team with professionals, including the patient or their parent. This study aimed to evaluate just that. Methods: Simulation-based training was provided for groups of medical and allied health profession students from universities across the globe. In an overt ethnographic research design, passive observations were made to ensure careful observations and accurate reporting. The training offered the context to directly experience the behaviors and interactions of a group of people. Results: Overall, 39 different goals were defined in different orders of prioritizing and with different time frames or intervention ideas. Shared decision-making was lacking, and groups chose to convince the parents when a conflict arose. Group dynamics made parents verbally agree with professionals, although their non-verbal communication was not in congruence with that. Conclusions: The outcome and goalsetting of an interprofessional meeting are highly influenced by group dynamics. The vision, structure, process, and results of the meeting are affected by multiple inter- or intrapersonal factors.
BACKGROUND: Observation of movement quality (MQ) is an indelible element in the process of clinical reasoning for patients with non-specific low back pain (NS-LBP). However, the observation and evaluation of MQ in common daily activities are not standardized within allied health care. This study aims to describe how Dutch allied health care professionals (AHCPs) observe and assess MQ in patients with NS-LBP and whether AHCPs feel the need to have a specific outcome measure for assessing MQ in patients with NS-LBP.METHODS: In this cross-sectional digital survey study, Dutch primary care AHCPs (n = 114) answered one open and three closed questions about MQ in NS-LBP management. Qualitative and quantitative analyses were applied.RESULTS: Qualitative analyses of the answers to the open questions revealed four main themes: 1) movement pattern features, 2) motor control features, 3) environmental influences and 4) non-verbal expressions of pain and exertion. Quantitative analyses clearly indicated that AHCPs observe MQ in the diagnostic (92%), therapeutic (91%) and evaluation phases (86%), that they do not apply any objective measurement of MQ and that 63% of the AHCPs consider it important to have a specific outcome measure to assess MQ. The AHCPs expressed added benefits and critical notes regarding clinical reasoning and quality of care.CONCLUSION: AHCPs recognize the importance of observing MQ in the assessment and management of LBP in a standardized way. However, there is no consensus amongst AHCPs how MQ should be standardized. Prior to standardization, it will be important to develop a theoretical framework to determine which observable and measurable dimensions of MQ are most valid and relevant for patients with NS-LBP to include in the assessment.
“In Nederland overleden in 2010 ongeveer 136.000 mensen, waarvan 108.500 (ca. 80%) niet onverwacht. Bij deze laatste groep is palliatieve zorg aan de orde. Hiervan was 80% ouder dan 65 jaar. In de toekomst zal dit aantal door de dubbele vergrijzing sterk toenemen. Van de mensen die in 2008 overleden aan een chronische ziekte stierf 34% thuis (IKNL, Algemene principes van palliatieve zorg)”. 84% van de Nederlandse bevolking prefereert thuis te sterven (Gomes, 2012).Palliatieve zorg helpt bij het voorkomen en verlichten van gezondheidgerelateerd lijden door vroege identificatie, juiste beoordeling en behandeling van pijn en andere problemen (WHO, 2020). Bij thuiswonende kankerpatiënten in de Nederlandse eerstelijnszorg geeft 72% aan pijn te ervaren, van wie 25% ondraaglijke pijn (Ruijs, 2012). Meer dan een kwart van de oudere volwassen patiënten ervaart pijn in de laatste 2 jaar van hun leven, waarbij de prevalentie toeneemt van 23% in 24 maanden voorafgaand aan het overlijden tot 55% in de laatste levensmaand (Smith, 2010). Tijdens de laatste levensweek meldt 25% van de palliatieve patiënten pijn te ervaren, ondanks het voorschrijven van opioïden (Klint, 2019). Onverlichte pijn is een veelvoorkomend probleem bij patiënten die sterven aan kanker en aan niet-kwaadaardige chronische ziekten. De leeropdracht Kortdurende zorg en interprofessionele samenwerking bij kwetsbare ouderen is onderdeel van het lectoraat Healthy Ageing, Allied Healthcare and Nursing. De insteek binnen de wijkverpleging van ZuidOostZorg is om, waar mogelijk, de kwetsbare ouderen kortdurend te ondersteunen en te werken aan reablement. In de laatste levensfase zijn de kortdurende doelen en acties gericht op het bieden van kwaliteit van leven, waarin een intensieve samenwerking is met o.a. huisartsen. Dit kan bijvoorbeeld zijn op het gebied van het in kaart brengen van de laatste levenswensen (proactieve zorgplanning), bieden van symptoommanagement en zorg voor naasten.
