Nurse Perceptions of Artists as Collaborators in Interprofessional Care Teams

Abstract

Increased attention is being given to interprofessional collaboration in healthcare, which has been shown to improve patient satisfaction, patient safety, healthcare processes, and health outcomes. As the arts and artists are being more widely incorporated into healthcare settings throughout the world, professional artists are contributing to interprofessional care teams. A secondary directed content analysis of interviews with 31 nurses on a medical-surgical care unit investigated the roles and impacts of professional artists on the interprofessional care team. The investigation utilized established domains of interprofessional care, including values and ethics, roles and responsibilities, interprofessional communication, and teams and teamwork, and created the domain of quality of care. Findings suggest that artists are valued by nurses as members of the interprofessional care team, that they enhance the provision of patient-centered care, and that they improve quality of care by providing holistic dimensions of caring, including cognitive and social engagement, and meaningful interaction. The presence of artists on interprofessional teams provides a cost-effective and welcome resource for clinical staff and builds a culture in which creativity and interdisciplinary collaboration are more highly valued and activated.

A mixed-methods feasibility study of an arts-based intervention for patients receiving maintenance haemodialysis

“…The intervention was not burdensome or disruptive for HCPs, an issue that can negatively impact clinical care. [48] This feasibility study demonstrated that by placing patients and HCPs at the centre of intervention development, particularly one designed to be intradialytic, can help reduce the impact of the intervention on the adequacy and safety of the patients treatment, and even reduce burden placed on HCPs in the setting.…”

A Mixed-Methods Feasibility Study of an Arts-Based Intervention for Patients Receiving Maintenance Haemodialysis.

“…The intervention was not burdensome or disruptive for HCPs, an issue that can negatively impact clinical care. [9,42] Instead the intervention provided bene ts for both patients and HCPs, potentially by inducing ow states amongst patients, [43] promoting mental wellbeing amongst patients and HCPs [44] and transforming the atmosphere of the clinical environment. [45] Whilst patients did report experiences that would indicate they were experiencing ow states while engaging in the intervention, art appeared to provide a more holistic impact on their wellbeing by improving their self-esteem, providing participants with a sense of purpose, promoting social engagement and generating positive affective states.…”

Collaborative practices from health care teams to face the covid-19 pandemic

“…The area of nursing presents itself as an outstanding profession for strengthening collaborative interprofessional practice and teamwork through its form of communication with the other components of the health team, promoting harmony, quality in decision making and impacting patients directly with quality care (7)(8) . Teamwork skills such as communication, respect, trust, mutual knowledge, collective power, centralization of actions on the patient, characteristics of the tasks and the environment were practices used during the crisis of the COVID-19 (9) .…”

“…Therefore, multiprofessional teams unite workers who use specialized knowledge and juxtaposed disciplines, which can culminate in fragility in health care. Otherwise, interprofessional teams are based on problem solving, enhancing effectiveness and quality in care, providing the understanding of collaborative roles and skills for a teamwork (4,(6)(7) .…”

“…Based on that premise, the expansion of health systems requires the development of health practices based on an interdisciplinary vision to solve problems, with effective results directed to the dynamics of health work actions and management of illness situations (5)(6) . Nursing as a profession related to team and intrateam interaction and collaboration, as well as linked to the building of theoretical-practical models of health care, has been expanding actions through interdisciplinary and interprofessional actions with health teams contributing to modify community health realities (7) .…”