Inter-Professional Collaboration and Teamwork

This product is free for NEP DPG members.

This webinar was presented live on March 23, 2022.

Competency based inter-professional practice is fundamental for advancing occupations in healthcare fields. Different perspectives and strategies for inter-professional collaboration to enhance outcomes in clinical, teaching and research settings will be presented. Effective communication strategies between professionals with different roles and responsibilities for effective collaboration will be discussed. The speakers will discuss enabling mechanisms (education/curriculum, institutional support) and barriers (different understandings of language and culture, professional stereotypes) to inter-professional collaboration. The focus of the session will be the intricacies of communication between team members, patients, and populations to clearly provide support to others. In addition, the speakers will highlight theoretical frameworks for cultivating empathy, professionalism and humanism.

CPEU: 1.0
CPE Level: 2
Performance Indicators: 2.1, 8.1, 9.3

Learning Objectives

1. Apply the four inter-professional core competencies in their work settings (clinical, teaching and research). The core competencies include values/ethics, roles/responsibilities, communication, and teamwork.
2. Optimize inter-professional activities to overcome the barriers for effective collaboration inherent in their field of practice.
3. Recognize the importance of effective communication, collaboration and teamwork skills, including practicing empathy, professionalism, and humanism.

Speakers

Henna Muzaffar, PhD, RD, FAND

Sherrill Morris, Ph.D., CCC-SLP