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Interprofessional (IP)Pictionary

Presenter:Brenda Zierler, PhD, RN, FAAN

University of Washington:Center for Health Sciences Interprofessional Education, Research and Practice

Objectives

• Understand how professional roles and responsibilities complement each other

• Identify health profession based on training requirements, usual practice setting and scope of practice

• Discuss overlap in scopes of practice and training requirements for various health professions

• Recognize stereotypes and biases depicted in drawings

Why is it important to know roles and responsibilities?

“…teamwork requires a shared acknowledgement of each participating member’s roles and abilities. Without this acknowledgement, adverse outcomes may arise from a series of seemingly trivial errors that effective teamwork could have prevented.”

(Baker et al., 2005b, p. 14)

Role Clarity, Communication,Values & Ethics

Interprofessional Collaborative Practice Competency Domains

Core competencies for interprofessional collaborative practice: Report of an expert panel. May, 2011. Washington, D.C. Interprofessional Education Collaborative.

IPEC Competency Domain:“Role Clarity and Responsibility”

Use the knowledge of one’s own role and those of other professions to appropriately assess and address the healthcare needs of the patients and populations served.

IPEC Report, 2011

• Stereotyping related to professional roles, demographic & cultural differences affect the health professions

• Stereotypes help create ideas about a profession’s worth known as “disparity diversity” (Edmondson & Roloff, 2009), eroding mutual respect.

• Inaccurate perceptions about diversity prevent professions from taking advantage of the full scope of abilities that working together offers to improve health care.

Role Clarity and ResponsibilityStereotyping and Biases

• RR1. Communicate one’s roles and responsibilities clearly to patients, families, and other professionals.

• RR2. Recognize one’s limitations in skills, knowledge, and abilities.

• RR3. Engage diverse healthcare professionals who complement one’s own professional expertise, as well as associated resources, to develop strategies to meet specific patient care needs.

• RR4. Explain the roles and responsibilities of other care providers and how the team works together to provide care.

• RR5. Use the full scope of knowledge, skills, and abilities

IPEC Competency Domain:Role Clarity and Responsibility- specific

Role clarity leads to better utilization of individual health

care workers, improved communication, reduced error,

and enhanced delivery of patient care.

(Meuser et al., 2006)

Roles Across Professions• Expert Medicine• Communicator Nursing• Educator Pharmacy• Advocate Physical Therapy• Professional Dentistry• Collaborator Social Work• Manager Public Health• Leader Physician Assistant

“We may look in the same direction, even at the ‘same lines’, and not see

what our colleagues sees.”

(McKee, 2003)

Interprofessional Pictionary

• As a team, decide who the health care professional is based on information provided

• Draw a representation of the health care professional without using letters or numbers

• Be prepared to share how everyone has contributed to the drawing

• After each team finishes drawing, the other teams should guess the profession prior to discussion

IP Pictionary: Reflection

• What assumptions am I making?• Where did I learn these values?• What values/beliefs orient me?• How might someone whose role is different than

mine look at this?• Why do I feel threatened when I am challenged

on this?

(McKee, 2003)

Interprofessional Pictionary• Acknowledgements:

IP Pictionary Game developed by Maria Tassone at the Educating Health Professionals for Interprofessional Care, University of Toronto (Ehpic 2011 Certificate Course)

http://www.ipe.utoronto.ca/ Edited and revised as Faculty Development Toolkit to

teach IPE Competency Domain: role clarity by the University of Washington Macy Grant Team

Core competencies for interprofessional collaborative practice (IPEC, 2011)