Preparation for Interprofessional Work: Holism, Integration and the Purpose of Training and Education

Current health policies emphasize partnership between professional groups, between agencies and with users, to ensure more integrated health and social care services. However, a number of reasons have been consistently identified as inhibiting interprofessional working. Among the many factors identified are poor communication, conflicting power relations and role confusion, and these present immense challenges to those who wish to offer interprofessional education and training opportunities. East Gloucestershire NHS Trust worked in partnership with the University of Gloucestershire (formerly the Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education) to overcome these problems and deliver an important postqualifying interprofessional training for those working with people with serious mental illness - the Thorn-based 'Diploma in Integrated Approaches to Serious Mental Illness'. This collaborative initiative represents a good model by which practitioners of all disciplines can be trained to a high standard and meet the requirements of the National Service Framework for Mental Health. This paper describes the initiative and identifies the extent to which the course has, by mirroring the practice it is seeking to generate, 'pulled together' to ensure interprofessional, intersectoral and professional/user collaboration. The key challenges associated with interprofessional working (with people with serious mental illness and with others) and with course implementation and how these were met are discussed and further opportunities are identified.

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“…Mathias et al . (1997) suggest that the argument for the participation of users is persuasive on the basis that:…”

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“…. who unify and combine different advice and perspectives integrating them into daily living and making healthy choices as they do so (Mathias et al . 1997, p. 117, emphasis in the original).…”

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Improving serious mental illness through interprofessional education

Rolls

Coupland

2002

Psychiatric Ment Health Nurs

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“…Indeed, a recent report of the All Party Health Committee (1998) has recommended that ‘common’ educational modules should be developed at both pre‐ and post‐qualifying levels for professionals working in the fields of health and social care. It is believed that such developments have the potential to both inform individual practice and teamwork and promote new ways of working ( Mathias & Thompson 1997).…”

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“…We were mindful of Clarke’s (cited in Mathias et al . 1997 ) comments on clarity of objectives, attention to method and realistic time constraints in our planning.…”

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Community nurses and social workers learning together: a report of an interprofessional education initiative in South Wales

Fowler

Hannigan

Northway

2000

Health &Amp; Social Care in the Community

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Collaboration between different professional groups and agencies is an essential element in the provision of high quality community care for people with complex health and social needs. There are, however, a number of barriers to effective interprofessional working. These include: the differing structures and operational philosophies of organizations; the differing languages and values of professional groups; professional and agency rivalries; and the fact that professional groups are, still, largely educated and trained in isolation. Interprofessional learning has been advocated as a possible solution to some of these problems. In this paper the rationale, planning, delivery and evaluation of one interprofessional education initiative are presented. Twelve months of planning between a team of three university teachers working in South Wales, United Kingdom, led to a combined group of community nursing and social work students following post-qualifying courses at undergraduate diploma and first degree level participating in two shared learning sessions. Using an interactive approach the student group explored, first, professional roles and responsibilities and secondly, engaged in group work focused on the discussion of case studies. Student evaluation of the sessions indicated an overwhelming appreciation of the importance of interprofessional education in unidisciplinary education programmes.

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Clients, claimants or learners? Exploring the joined‐up working of New Deal for 18–24 year olds

Salisbury

2004

Journal of Education Policy

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Preparation for Interprofessional Work: Holism, Integration and the Purpose of Training and Education

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Improving serious mental illness through interprofessional education

Improving serious mental illness through interprofessional education

Community nurses and social workers learning together: a report of an interprofessional education initiative in South Wales

Clients, claimants or learners? Exploring the joined‐up working of New Deal for 18–24 year olds

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