- Title
- Educators' interprofessional collaborative relationships: helping pharmacy students learn to work with other professions
- Creator
- Croker, Anne; Smith, Tony; Fisher, Karin; Littlejohns, Sonja
- Relation
- Pharmacy Vol. 4, Issue 2, p. 17-17
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pharmacy4020017
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- Similar to other professions, pharmacy educators use workplace learning opportunities to prepare students for collaborative practice. Thus, collaborative relationships between educators of different professions are important for planning, implementing and evaluating interprofessional learning strategies and role modelling interprofessional collaboration within and across university and workplace settings. However, there is a paucity of research exploring educators’ interprofessional relationships. Using collaborative dialogical inquiry we explored the nature of educators’ interprofessional relationships in a co-located setting. Data from interprofessional focus groups and semi-structured interviews were interpreted to identify themes that transcended the participants’ professional affiliations. Educators’ interprofessional collaborative relationships involved the development and interweaving of five interpersonal behaviours: being inclusive of other professions; developing interpersonal connections with colleagues from other professions; bringing a sense of own profession in relation to other professions; giving and receiving respect to other professions; and being learner-centred for students’ collaborative practice. Pharmacy educators, like other educators, need to ensure that interprofessional relationships are founded on positive experiences rather than vested in professional interests.
- Subject
- co-located settings; educators; interprofessional education; interprofessional learning; pharmacy; relationships; workplace learning; work integrated learning
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1326657
- Identifier
- uon:25479
- Identifier
- ISSN:2226-4787
- Rights
- © 2016 by the authors; licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons by Attribution (CC-BY) license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
- Language
- eng
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