1 Values and Ethics (Interprofessional)
LEARNING GUIDE: VALUES AND ETHICS (INTERPROFESSIONAL)
OVERVIEW
This lesson is a review and offers background to the principles of teamwork and interprofessional practice. There is optional content concerning personal values that provides a context for professional values and ethics common among healthcare professions.
Why do we need to practice interprofessionally? “Today’s patients have complex health needs and typically require more than one discipline to address issues regarding their health status (1). In 2001, a recommendation by the Institute of Medicine Committee on Quality of Health Care in America suggested that healthcare professionals working in interprofessional teams can best communicate and address these complex and challenging needs. This interprofessional approach may allow sharing of expertise and perspectives to form a common goal of restoring or maintaining an individual’s health and improving outcomes while combining resources (1, 3)” (Bridges et al., 2011, p. 1).
Who is IPEC? The intentional origin of work concerning inteprofessional practice is credited to the Interprofessional Education Collaborative (IPEC). IPEC was created in 2009 when six national educational associations of health professionals “…formed a collaborative to promote and encourage constituent efforts that would advance substantive interprofessional learning experiences to help prepare future health professionals for enhanced team-based care of patients and improved population health outcomes” (IPEC, 2011, p. 1). This collaborative brought together higher education from various medical fields, providing interprofessional collaboration to guide professional schools. The idea behind IPEC is that students will have a more well-rounded education, are more able to work as a part of a team and can work interprofessionally. According to the World Health Organization, “Interprofessional education occurs when students from two or more professions learn about, from, and with each other to enable effective collaboration and improve health outcomes. Once students understand how to work interprofessionally, they are ready to enter the workplace as a member of the collaborative practice team. This is a key step in moving health systems from fragmentation to a position of strength (Ostermeyer, 2015, para1-2).
OBJECTIVES
For this lesson you will:
- Describe the baseline values & ethics of the healthcare professional.
- Describe interprofessional practice as well as how it relates to Quality and Safety.
- Differentiate between intraprofessional, multidisciplinary, and interprofessional.
COMPETENCIES
| IPEC Sub-Competencies – Values/Ethics for Interprofessional Practice | |
| VE1 | Place the interests of patients and populations at the center of interprofessional health care delivery and population health programs and policies, with the goal of promoting health and health equity across the life span. |
| VE3 | Embrace the cultural diver