title: Illustrating and Analyzing the Processes of Interprofessional Collaboration: A Lesson Learned from Palliative Care in Deconstructing the Concept.
abstract: A basic tenet of palliative care is interprofessional collaboration. Palliative care educators and practitioners lead the way in responding to the Institute of Medicine's (2003) challenge to transform educational and health care systems through interprofessional collaboration. Through exemplary commitment to interprofessional collaboration, a college's academic and palliative care leader, in collaboration with Department Chairs and Directors of nursing and allied health professions, can illustrate and analyze the processes of interprofessional collaboration through the development of a simulated case study of a combat veteran with traumatic brain injury.
  
  
  
  Methodologic components: (1) interprofessional development of a palliative care case study and (2) debriefing interviews regarding the experience of collaboration of interprofessional team members.
  
  
  
  The results provide the identification of steps of the interprofessional process and the shared and unique disciplinary competencies in determining a comprehensive health history, physical examination, identifying and prioritizing diagnoses, and determining collaborative discipline-specific interventions. Content analysis of debriefing team interviews provides a description of group composition, structure, process, development, and performance, as well as team member's perceptions of what fosters and challenges collaboration, benefits, and drawbacks, and what could have been done differently in developing an interprofessional initiative.
  
  
  
  Transformative change in healthcare education and clinical practice involves interprofessional collaboration of colleagues within, across, and beyond universities/colleges and healthcare systems and agencies. Advocating for teamwork has to go beyond talking about being a team player or not to having the language and behaviors we need to observe and measure. This article not only provides key processes in interprofessional collaboration but also identifies key attitudes and behaviors critical to teamwork. It provides a starting point to determine observable and measurable outcomes for interprofessional education, practice, and research. This article highlights expert behavior to move professionals from being novices in interprofessional collaboration to mastering the skills.
authors.affiliation: 1 Graduate Nursing FIU , Miami, Florida.
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Witt Sherman
authors.affiliation: 2 Department of Occupational Therapy FIU , Atlanta, Georgia .
authors.forename: Kinsuk
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Maitra
authors.affiliation: 1 Graduate Nursing FIU , Miami, Florida.
authors.forename: Yhovana
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Gordon
authors.affiliation: 3 Undergraduate Nursing FIU , Miami, Florida.
authors.forename: Sharon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Simon
authors.affiliation: 3 Undergraduate Nursing FIU , Miami, Florida.
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Olenick
authors.affiliation: 4 Heath Services Administration FIU , Miami, Florida.
authors.forename: Salvatore
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Barbara
authors.affiliation: 5 Department of Athletic Training, Miami, Florida.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Doherty-Restrepo
authors.affiliation: 6 Communication Sciences and Disorders , Miami, Florida.
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hough
authors.affiliation: 7 Physical Therapy FIU , Miami, Florida.
authors.forename: Marilys
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Randolph
authors.affiliation: 8 Nursing Doctoral Student FIU, Miami, Florida.
authors.forename: Arvindar
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Singh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003210:Concept Formation; D003299:Cooperative Behavior; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007400:Interprofessional Relations; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010166:Palliative Care; D036301:Qualitative Research
keywords: interprofessional assessment and plan; interprofessional collaboration; teamwork