Please Choose One of the follow questions:

  1. Based on your professional role, identify strategies that you have seen implemented in your practice area that promote interprofessional clinical experiences with students and other members of the healthcare team.
  2. Based on your advanced professional nurses role, describe the credentialing process at the state and national level.

Please post your initial response and respond to one student, both responses must be a minimum of 150 words, scholarly written, APA formatted, and referenced. A minimum of 2 references each post, other than your text, is required. Please refer to grading rubric for online discussion.

Question: Based on your professional role, identify strategies that you have seen implemented in your practice area that promote interprofessional clinical experiences with students and other members of the healthcare team.

The importance of involving nurses in interdisciplinary treatment is evident by the improved patient outcomes that often result when nurses collaborate with other healthcare professionals to provide the most comprehensive and continuous care possible. Nurses are an essential part of the treatment team, as they often spend more time with the patient than members of any other disciplines do. Because of this, they have a unique perspective to offer to the other healthcare professionals involved in the patient’s care. Additionally, they are the ones who will be implementing a significant portion of the decisions made by other members of the team. Therefore, the collaboration of nurses and all healthcare professionals involved in a patient’s care is likely to lead to the most effective care for the patient, and the importance of this should be established at the student level (Moss et al., 2016). Interdisciplinary collaboration is so important when it comes to providing care for a patient, that students seeking careers in the healthcare industry should begin learning and practicing this collaboration during their degree programs. Interdisciplinary projects can be established as required parts of a school’s curriculum. Universities have incorporated interdisciplinary projects, requiring students from schools such as nursing, social work, medical school, and pharmacy programs to work together on joint projects. This creates opportunities for students to not only gain insight into the importance of this collaboration at an early point in their careers, but to also develop comfortability and confidence working with their interdisciplinary peers at an early stage. This way, when nursing students graduate and begin their careers, they will already have an understanding of how their specialty and unique perspectives contribute to the treatment team, as well as how they can benefit from continuous correspondence with other disciplines (Hermann et al., 2016; Koch et al., 2016). 

References

Hermann, C. P., Head, B.A., Black, K., & Singleton, K. (2016). Preparing nursing students for

interprofessional practice: The interdisciplinary curriculum for oncology palliative care education.  Journal of professional nursing: Official journal of the American Association of Colleges of Nursing, 32(1), 62–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.profnurs.2015.06.001

Koch, F.D., Dirsch-Weigand, A., Awolin, M., Pinkelman, R.J., Hampe, M.J. (2016). Motivating

first-year university students by interdisciplinary study projects. European Journal of Engineering Education, 42(1), 17-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2016.1193126

Moss, E., Seifert, P.C., O’Sullivan,