Interprofessional Practice Guide

Effective communication within a primary care team depends on the ability of each person to clearly understand his or her role and the roles of others. Interprofessional collaboration should also ensure a consistent message to help patients understand and appreciate these different roles...

As a Centre, we are advancing collaborative healthcare and education. We are pushing the boundaries of our knowledge base and practices concerning collaboration and IPE. We see collaboration as the continual act of working and learning with all involved in health care: patients/clients, families, caregivers, communities, and health professionals, ...

Collaborative Care is when several health providers work together with patients/residents/clients, their families, caregivers and communities to provide high quality care. It involves engaging any health provider whose expertise can help improve the patient/resident/client’s health. When health providers collaborate, new possibilities exist that were not there before.

Collaborative practice occurs, according to the World Health Organization, “when multiple health workers from different professional backgrounds provide comprehensive services by working with patients, their families, caregivers and communities to deliver the highest quality of care across settings.”

IPEC now represents 21 national health professions associations. Eligible institutional members must be associations that represent and serve academic units at institutions of higher education that provide an educational program leading to the award of one or more academic degrees to students in one or more of the health professions that provide direct care to patients.

The Interprofessional Education (IPE) Collection is designed to foster the identification, development, and deployment of educational resources aimed at supporting team-based or collaborative care essential to training an interprofessional workforce.

These education modules are for any staff member working within an interprofessional collaborative team caring for patients, residents, or clients. The goal of these learning modules is to complement and supplement present knowledge and support attitudes, skills, and behaviours to be effective team members and leaders within an interprofessional (IP) collaborative patient-centred care team.

The National Center is charged to provide the leadership, evidence and resources needed to guide the nation on interprofessional education and collaborative practice.

​The Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative (CIHC) has been working for more than a decade to strengthen the knowledge base and ​practice for collaborative, patient-centred practice.

The Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaboration (CIHC) National Interprofessional Competency Framework describes the competencies required for effective interprofessional collaboration. Six competency domains highlight the knowledge, skills, attitudes and values that together shape the judgments that are essential for interprofessional collaborative practice.

A quick reference guide to the CIHC National Competency Framework.

Canadian Nurses Association position statement on Interprofessional Collaboration

The Framework for Action on Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice highlights the current status of interprofessional collaboration around the world identifies the mechanisms that shape successful collaborative teamwork and outlines a series of action items that policy-makers can apply within their local health system

In order for interprofessional education (IPE) to be effective and sustainable, the commitment must be present on many levels. The College of Nursing IPE Framework is organized so it demonstrates our commitment and strategies to IPE on five levels...

The following documents aim to promote understanding of the concept of scope of practice, how scopes of practice differ among the three nursing professions and the factors to consider when making decisions about the appropriate nurse for the job.