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- Title
Interprofessional Education in the Health Profession of Clinical Laboratory Sciences.
- Authors
Salazar, Jose H.
- Abstract
Maintaining and increasing the quality of health care will require multiple health professions working together to meet the needs of the public. Interprofessional collaboration between the health professions has been recommended as an avenue to develop and support effective and efficient teams of health professionals. The lack of interprofessional collaboration can lead to increased healthcare costs, inpatient hospitalization, patient mortality, and low quality of patient care. Interprofessional education (IPE) is a critical component of a health professions education curriculum in addressing the need for interprofessional collaboration in professional practice. Unfortunately, IPE is not currently embedded into the health professions curricula. The purpose of this qualitative exploratory case study was to explore and describe how clinical laboratory science students at a tertiary university hospital perceive and conceptualize IPE through exposure to IPE in clinical preceptorship and service learning experiences. The data collection and analysis process included multiple interviews, student clinical preceptorship journals, student service learning journals, and a researcher's journal. The constant comparison method (Glaser & Strauss, 1967) was used throughout the study as themes and patterns emerged from the raw data and were discovered. Findings indicated that participants believed that IPE helped reduce professional hierarchy, promoted equality and respect and maximized interprofessional collaboration between the health professions. The results from this study reveal how an interprofessional curriculum can unite the health professions early in their formative years to address the inefficiencies and ineffectiveness of a disjointed health care team that negatively affects health care in the United States today.
- Publication
Clinical Laboratory Science, 2016, Vol 29, Issue 2, p103
- ISSN
0894-959X
- Publication type
Academic Journal