Values-Based Interprofessional Collaborative Practice
Working Together in Health Care

Discusses values from the perspective of different health care professionals and why teams and collaborations may succeed or fail.

Jill E. Thistlethwaite (Author)

9781107636163, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 September 2012

190 pages, 3 b/w illus.
23.5 x 15.6 x 0.9 cm, 0.33 kg

The provision of care within the context of the modern health service environment involves a wide range of professionals. The health care team might include general practitioners, nurses, midwives, hospital doctors, physiotherapists, other allied health professionals, as well as receptionists and practice managers. To optimise delivery of care at both individual and population levels, team members must work collaboratively with colleagues in their own profession and others. This book, in the Values-Based Medicine series, adds the dimension of values to the more usual discussions of teamwork, considering interactions between health care professionals and how these might be affected by differences in professional and personal values. Examples of scenarios based on real-life experience promote learning and reflection. Anybody working or training in health care and who aspires to collaborate successfully with their colleagues in other specialties will find this book extremely valuable, as will educators who facilitate learners in teamwork.

Preface
Part I. Introduction and Theory: 1. Values-based practice in health care: setting the scene
2. Teamwork and collaborative practice in modern health care
3. Communication within teams and between professionals
Part II. Primary Care and the Primary Health Care Team: 4. A patient complaint: team meetings, policy and practice values – raising awareness in the team
5. A well person health check, health promotion and disease prevention: different lifestyles, different values
6. A patient with medically unexplained symptoms: applying evidence and values
7. A request for strong analgesia: honesty and truth
8. Asylum seekers and refugees: working across cultures
9. A request for a home birth and other pregnancy related consultations
10. Community-based care and the wider health care team Dawn Forman
11. Ageing and end of life decisions
12. Referrals and the interface between primary and secondary care: looking after 'our' patients
13. Living with visible difference and valuing appearance
14. Collaboration with other professionals: in and outside health care
15. Learning in and about teams
Afterword
Index.

Subject Areas: Diseases & disorders [MJC], Medical diagnosis [MJA], Medical sociology [MBS], Health systems & services [MBP], Public health & preventive medicine [MBN], Medical profession [MBD]