title: Using interprofessional simulation to improve collaborative competences for nursing, physiotherapy, and respiratory therapy students.
abstract: Within the care of people living with respiratory conditions, nursing, physiotherapy, and respiratory therapy healthcare professionals routinely work in interprofessional teams. To help students prepare for their future professional roles, there is a need for them to be involved in interprofessional education. The purpose of this project was to compare two different methods of patient simulation in improving interprofessional competencies for students in nursing, physiotherapy, and respiratory therapy programmes. The Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative competencies of communication, collaboration, conflict resolution patient/family-centred care, roles and responsibilities, and team functioning were measured. Using a quasi-experimental pre-post intervention approach two different interprofessional workshops were compared: the combination of standardised and simulated patients, and exclusively standardised patients. Students from nursing, physiotherapy, and respiratory therapy programmes worked together in these simulation-based activities to plan and implement care for a patient with a respiratory condition. Key results were that participants in both years improved in their self-reported interprofessional competencies as measured by the Interprofessional Collaborative Competencies Attainment Survey (ICCAS). Participants indicated that they found their interprofessional teams did well with communication and collaboration. But the participants felt they could have better involved the patients and their family members in the patient's care. Regardless of method of patient simulation used, mannequin or standardised patients, students found the experience beneficial and appreciated the opportunity to better understand the roles of other healthcare professionals in working together to help patients living with respiratory conditions.
authors.affiliation: a Physiotherapy Program , University of Ottawa , Ottawa , Ontario , Canada.
authors.forename: Judy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: King
authors.affiliation: b Labatt Family Heart Centre , The Hospital for Sick Children , Ottawa , Onatrio , Canada.
authors.forename: Sarah
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Beanlands
authors.affiliation: c Nursing Studies , Algonquin College , Ottawa , Ontario , Canada.
authors.forename: Valerie
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Fiset
authors.affiliation: d School of Sociological and Anthropological Studies , University of Ottawa , Ottawa , Ontario , Canada.
authors.forename: Louise
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Chartrand
authors.affiliation: c Nursing Studies , Algonquin College , Ottawa , Ontario , Canada.
authors.forename: Shelley
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Clarke
authors.affiliation: c Nursing Studies , Algonquin College , Ottawa , Ontario , Canada.
authors.forename: Tarra
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Findlay
authors.affiliation: c Nursing Studies , Algonquin College , Ottawa , Ontario , Canada.
authors.forename: Michelle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Morley
authors.affiliation: e Respiratory Therapy Program , Algonquin College , Ottawa , Ontario , Canada.
authors.forename: Ian
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Summers
mesh_terms: D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D006801:Humans; D007318:Inservice Training; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D008297:Male; D016544:Patient Simulation; D026761:Physical Therapy Specialty; D011361:Professional Competence; D029424:Pulmonary Disease, Chronic Obstructive / Q000628:therapy; D012138:Respiratory Therapy
keywords: Communication; interprofessional competencies; interprofessional education; patient simulation; respiratory care; standardised patients