As modern healthcare becomes increasingly complex and individual service users have increasingly complex healthcare needs, it is impossible that any particular healthcare professional will have the required knowledge and expertise to meet all of the requirements of the patient or service.
This module will, therefore, support the learner to critically evaluate the drivers for Interprofessional Working (IPW) and critically appraise the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for effective IPW despite the challenges for the benefit of both the service and the service user.
By completing this module learners will be supported to develop the knowledge, skills, and attitudes required for effective, integrated IPW having identified the enablers for effective collaborative practice and developed strategies to overcome some of the challenges to IPW.
Apprentices/learners will work collaboratively in a series of seminars with fellow professionals undertaking the module, some including service users, to explore new and contemporary theories and concepts of Interprofessional Working with respect to the advanced clinical practitioner role. Learners will be expected to share their own experiences of IPW in the debate and discussions that take place.
This module is assessed by means of a 25 minute presentation, followed by ten minutes of questions. The presentation will provide a critical evaluation of a suitable activity of the learner’s choice planned and delivered in practice to promote IPW in their own area of practice. The presentation will be expected to include a justification of the need and rationale for the activity along with the intended benefits to the service and service user.
There will be opportunities for formative feedback prior to the summative assessment and learners will have a resit opportunity in the resit period if required.