Journal of interprofessional care
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Maintaining job satisfaction across the team in the operating room (OR) is essential for reducing staff turnover, stress, burnout, medical errors and increasing patient satisfaction. This literature review explores factors impacting on job satisfaction for OR team members, with a specific focus on nurses, anaesthetists and surgeons. A literature search from January 1997 to November 2017 was conducted using databases CINHAL, psychINFO, Medline and ABI/inform. ⋯ Career prospects, research opportunities, autonomy, utilising the full extent of one's skills, team dynamics/communication, pressure from management, and social support systems were also identified as significant for specific disciplines within the team. This review highlights the importance of addressing factors relating to job satisfaction from an 'OR team' perspective and considering the inter-relationship between roles. Further research into 'team satisfaction' in the OR, its measurement and its relationship with retention and productivity would be of benefit.
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Interprofessional bedside rounds by nurses and physicians provide valuable space and time for the discussion of patient care, which is essential for providing quality care. However, nurse-physician collaboration and barriers to attending these rounds are not well-examined. This study aimed to examine the collaboration of nurses and physicians and their perceived barriers to interprofessional bedside rounds. ⋯ The highest ranked barriers were related to time-related issues. The nurses reported a significantly greater perceived barrier in attending bedside round than the physicians. To optimize nurse-physician collaboration, the study advocates healthcare leaders to foster cooperative relationships between nurses and physicians and to reorganize ward routines to provide designated time periods for nurses to attend rounds.
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International policy documents emphasize the need to develop interprofessional education (IPE) to support collaborative dementia care in the community. The aim of this short report is to describe the development and pilot evaluation of an interprofessional dementia education workshop for primary care healthcare professionals. A three-hour workshop was iteratively developed through consultation with an expert reference group and people with dementia. ⋯ The workshop improved participants' self-reported knowledge, understanding and confidence to support people with dementia and their families. Areas for improvement were identified and will be used to inform improvements to the workshop content and delivery in advance of a national roll-out. Future evaluations of the implementation of this interprofessional educational workshop will focus on its impact on healthcare professional behavior and outcomes for the person with dementia and their families.
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The need for interprofessional education (IPE) in health science disciplines is a current global trend. However, despite international support and demand, IPE is still new to many health professions curricula in South Africa. Furthermore, while ample existing academic literature addresses commonly encountered barriers to IPE, there is still a need to investigate the dynamics and challenges associated with the process of implementing IPE at universities. ⋯ Although the nursing students took initial leadership, contributions from the other professions became more prominent as the case studies unfolded. The findings indicated that the inclusion of different health professions in an interprofessional team should be guided by the specific scenarios incorporated to simulate interprofessional cooperation. The availability of the students and their scope of practice at third-year level should also be taken into account.