Unit 1: Interprofessional Education and Interprofessional Practice

Question 1

Why are health care organizations moving from multidisciplinary practices to interdisciplinary practices?

Answer 1

In effort to meet client, organizational, and health care outcomes

Question 2

How are health care practitioners in todays practice expected to contribute on interdisciplinary teams?

Answer 2

Through the process of collaboration

Question 3

Triple Aim

Answer 3

• Improving population health
• Improving patient experience
• Reducing costs of health care
• Reducing burnout for health care providers

Question 4

Interprofessional Practice

Answer 4

The act of collaborative ready members of a health care team along with families, caregivers and communities working together to strengthen health systems and to improve outcomes.

Question 5

Interprofessional Education (IPE)

Answer 5

Demonstrated “when students from two or more professions learn about, from, and with each other” as a precursor to collaboration

Question 6

Interprofessional Education Competencies

Answer 6

• Competency 1: Values and ethics for interprofessional practice.
• Competency 2: Roles and responsibilities for collaborative practice
• Competency 3: Interprofessional communication practices
• Competency 4: Interprofessional teamwork and team- based practice

Question 7

Benefits of Interprofessional Education

Answer 7

• Provides opportunities to learn and practice skills that improve communication and collaboration.
• Build professional identity and pride by articulating one’s scope of practice.
• Dispel stereotypes about other disciplines or team members through understanding each others’ roles and responsibilities.
• Establish rapport and trust among team members that leads to valuing interdisciplinary collaboration.
• Positive changes in teamwork.

Question 8

Physical Therapy

Answer 8

• Movement-based groups (sports teams, dance troupes, athletes)
• Animal rehabilitation
• Manual therapy
• Principles of exercise
• Digestion
• Cardiovascular and pulmonary
• Specific interventions for movement

Question 9

Occupational Therapy

Answer 9

• Holistic approach to life activities
• Daily tasks
• Mental health
• Driving rehab
• Low vision
• Sensory issues

Question 10

Speech Language Pathology

Answer 10

• Swallowing
• Communication
• Literacy
• Fluency
• Voice/Resonance
• Language
• Motor speech
• Augmentative and alternative communication
• Aural rehab
• Phonology and articulation

Question 11

IPP means

Answer 11

Interprofessional Practice

Question 12

Professionals practicing IPP

Answer 12

Participate in a non-heirarchical interdisciplinary team approach

Question 13

IPP is seen as a means of

Answer 13

Improving the client/patient/student experience of care

Question 14

In IPP teams

Answer 14

The emphasis is on consensus-building and mutual respect

Question 15

ASHA’s position is that IPP is

Answer 15

Part of the Envisioned Future for audiologists and SLPs