Inter-Professional Working

INTER-PROFESSIONAL WORKING

Working in partnership with patients, their families and fellow practitioners from statutory sectors (health education and social work) and the third sector (voluntary and other agencies) is essential in meeting the diverse needs of the changing social population with whom we, as nurses and midwifes, are working.

Terminology:

Multidisciplinary working – varying numbers of professionals/practitioners working with the same patient/family from their own professional base

Inter-agency (Inter-professional) working – professionals/practitioners working together from their own professional base but involving the patient at the centre of decision making

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• Build relationships with services, families, fellow professionals • Contribute to higher family morale • Encourage and facilitate partnership and family involvement • Filter and improve communication channels to make information more accessible
(Greco and Sloper, 2003; Townsley et al, 2004). www.ccnuk.org.uk Transition is the purposeful, planned movement of patients between and across services at different stages of their life. Much of the literature around this area of care is centred around young people with complex needs and people with identified learning disabilities

Principles of good transitional care rely on: • Communication • Coordination • Comprehensiveness • Continuity • Choice

Heslop et al (2004)

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(2008) Barriers and facilitators of multidisciplinary team working: a review. Paediatric Nursing. 20(2), 26-29

Greco, V. Sloper, P. (2003) Care co-ordination and key worker schemes for disabled children: results of a UK-wide survey. Child-Care, Health and Development. 30, 13-20 [Internet] Available at: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2214.2004.00381.x/pdf
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Heslop. P, Mallett. R, Simons, K and Ward. L. (2004) Bridging the Divide at Transition. What Happens for People with Learning Difficulties and their Families. Plymouth, British Institute of Learning Disabilities [Internet] Available at: http://www.bristol.ac.uk/norahfry/research/completed-projects/bridging-findings.pdf [Accessed 13.03.12]

Scottish Executive (2002) Promoting Health, Supporting Inclusion Edinburgh The Stationery Office. [Internet] Available at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2002/07/15072/8572 [Accessed 13.03.12]

Scottish Executive (2008) A guide to Getting it Right for Every Child (GIRFEC), Edinburgh, Scottish Executive. [Internet] Available at: http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/Doc/1141/0065063.pdf [Accessed