Lucas Hu, Geoff Argus, Roi Charles Pineda, William MacAskill, Priya Martin
{"title":"The role of artificial intelligence in enhancing interprofessional education and collaborative practice: a mixed methods scoping review.","authors":"Lucas Hu, Geoff Argus, Roi Charles Pineda, William MacAskill, Priya Martin","doi":"10.1080/13561820.2025.2576241","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13561820.2025.2576241","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this scoping review, we examined the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in enhancing interprofessional education and collaborative practice (IPECP) within healthcare settings. Drawing on the Canadian Interprofessional Health Collaborative \"Competency Framework,\" the review investigated AI's capacity to support essential IPECP competencies, including team communication, relationship-focused care, role clarification, and collaborative leadership. A comprehensive literature search identified 15 studies published from 2010 onwards that explored various AI applications, such as virtual reality simulations, clinical decision support systems, and machine learning algorithms, aimed at fostering interprofessional teamwork and improving healthcare outcomes. Key findings suggest that AI could facilitate effective team communication, real-time decision-making, and interprofessional education by enabling consistent, evidence-based recommendations and personalized treatment plans. However, several barriers to AI adoption were noted, including clinician mistrust, data security concerns, and challenges integrating AI within existing healthcare infrastructure. These findings highlight the potential for AI to advance IPECP but underscore the need for further research explicitly aligned with targeted IPECP competencies. Addressing these barriers will be critical to integrating AI into standard team-based healthcare practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":50174,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interprofessional Care","volume":" ","pages":"390-399"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145679299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Fostering mental health and wellness in interprofessional healthcare teams: Designing solutions through the application of Appreciative Inquiry and systems thinking.","authors":"Stacy Pryor, Amelia Phillips, Erini Serag-Bolos, Jesse Casanova, Shaterra Blocker, Karen Aul, Usha Menon","doi":"10.1080/13561820.2025.2582757","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13561820.2025.2582757","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There are increasing concerns about the well-being of healthcare students and providers. We describe our university's innovative approach to mitigating poor well-being across multiple healthcare disciplines during an Interprofessional Education (IPE) Day. As part of IPE Day, university health faculty developed a competition where teams of students from health colleges and programs created a strategic vision for mental health and wellness in the workplace. Twelve teams participated (7-9 students/team; <i>N</i> = 95). To help with strategic vision, participants created Mind Maps and Rich Pictures using Appreciative Inquiry as a framework. Appreciative Inquiry is an evidence-based approach that emphasizes strengths rather than weaknesses to facilitate positive change at a systems level. Evaluations included \"Shark Tank\" judging and audience voting to determine the competition's winner. Findings demonstrated that themes developed across teams converged more than they diverged, showing consensus on the broad key factors, including communication, collaboration, and community. Our study highlighted the success of bringing students from multiple disciplines together to collaborate on creating solutions to improve workplace well-being, benefiting all healthcare professions.</p>","PeriodicalId":50174,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interprofessional Care","volume":" ","pages":"417-421"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145702766","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S Alicia Williams, Amy Denise Johnson, Caroline Abercrombie, Trena M Paulus
{"title":"Student servant leadership development during IPE experiences: a qualitative analysis.","authors":"S Alicia Williams, Amy Denise Johnson, Caroline Abercrombie, Trena M Paulus","doi":"10.1080/13561820.2025.2609075","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13561820.2025.2609075","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Models of leadership which emphasize collaboration, common goals, and fluidity rather than position are essential to interprofessional practice. Shared leadership in team-based practice helps to improve patient safety and outcomes and to enhance professionals' wellbeing. Developing future health professionals who incorporate these concepts into their work with colleagues and patients is a crucial component of interprofessional education. Assessing students' acquisition of these concepts is paramount and can be important not only in assessing student learning but also in program evaluation and improvement. The framework of our two-year longitudinal interprofessional education curriculum incorporated the seven pillars of servant leadership as a new lens for interprofessional practice. At the end of the curriculum, students from three academic health science colleges completed reflections as a summative assessment. This paper reports the results of a qualitative analysis of these students' reflections using the seven pillars as coding categories to determine the curriculum's effectiveness. All seven pillars of servant leadership were represented in the student reflections demonstrating the acquisition of shared leadership competencies. Importantly, the three pillars most frequently occurring across all reflective statements were compassionate collaborator, skilled communicator, and puts people first. Foresight was the leadership pillar that appeared the least in student reflections. Evaluation of student written reflections as a summative assessment is useful in determining students' acquisition of leadership skills and can be used as part of a continuous improvement process as well as for identifying weaker areas in the curriculum.</p>","PeriodicalId":50174,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interprofessional Care","volume":" ","pages":"310-319"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145850894","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Collaboration orchestration in complex rehabilitation services-a qualitative study.","authors":"Randi Skumsnes, Hilde Thygesen, Karen Synne Groven","doi":"10.1080/13561820.2025.2562076","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13561820.2025.2562076","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interprofessional collaboration in rehabilitation is essential but challenging. Although factors supporting interprofessional collaboration are well known, how professionals make collaboration work within complex practices is underexamined. In response, we explored interprofessional collaboration and communication in a complex, dynamic rehabilitation setting, along with how healthcare professionals experience such collaboration and their actions to make it work across organizational boundaries. To those ends, we conducted semi-structured individual interviews with 14 healthcare practitioners from a hospital and the primary healthcare rehabilitation services in Western Norway. The interview transcripts were analyzed through thematic analysis, and we applied the theoretical perspective of relational expertise in interpreting the findings. We developed two main themes with sub-themes: that professionals enable and orchestrate collaborative work by (1) using different communication approaches flexibly and adjusting the collaboration to each patient's needs and to the collaborative situation, and (2) acknowledging the significance of interpersonal relations by cultivating mutual trust and understanding. Those new insights contribute to interprofessional practice by urging practice and policymakers to acknowledge practitioners' need for flexibility and to develop relational expertise as well professional expertise, especially in dynamic rehabilitation settings. Practitioners, educators and policymakers should support the cultivation of collaborative skills and structures.</p>","PeriodicalId":50174,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interprofessional Care","volume":" ","pages":"239-249"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145259799","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
María Luana Quintana-Lorenzo, Héctor González-de la Torre, Claudio Alberto Rodríguez-Suárez, Juan José Suárez-Sánchez, Ricardo José Pinto-Plasencia, José Verdú-Soriano
{"title":"Cross-cultural adaptation and validation of the Jefferson Scale of Attitudes Toward Physician-Nurse Collaboration (JSATPNC) in the Spanish context.","authors":"María Luana Quintana-Lorenzo, Héctor González-de la Torre, Claudio Alberto Rodríguez-Suárez, Juan José Suárez-Sánchez, Ricardo José Pinto-Plasencia, José Verdú-Soriano","doi":"10.1080/13561820.2025.2579535","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13561820.2025.2579535","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interprofessional collaboration between physicians and nurses is a critical aspect of healthcare. The Jefferson Scale of Attitudes Toward Physician-Nurse Collaboration (JSATPNC) is the most widely used instrument for assessing attitudes toward such collaboration. However, this scale has not been validated in Spain. This study aimed to translate and adapt the JSATPNC to the Spanish context and evaluate its psychometric properties. Following its translation and adaptation, the scale was administered to a sample of 205 primary care physicians and nurses. Construct validity was assessed using confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and Rasch analysis. The CFA based on the original four-dimensional model demonstrated good fit indices (RMSEA = 0.053, RMSR = 0.037, CFI = 0.974, NNFI = 0.947) and suggested the possibility of a unidimensional model (MIREAL = 0.211). Rasch analysis indicated good fit, except for items 1 and 5. Internal consistency reliability was acceptable (Omega = 0.801 [95% CI: 0.734-0.823]). The Spanish version of the JSATPNC (JSATPNC-e) exhibits adequate psychometric properties in terms of construct validity and internal consistency reliability. This study provides the Spanish-speaking population with an adaptation of the most widely used instrument for evaluating interprofessional collaboration between nurses and physicians.</p>","PeriodicalId":50174,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interprofessional Care","volume":" ","pages":"333-343"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145679296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"'We try to jump those hurdles': inter-agency dynamics of referral with self-neglect cases in England.","authors":"David Orr, May Nasrawy, Cindy Morrison","doi":"10.1080/13561820.2025.2525152","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13561820.2025.2525152","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In health and social care, disagreements over referrals involve professionals contesting between them the power to define the situation. An aspect of practice that commonly gives rise to such disagreements is self-neglect because of its high ambiguity for services. Self-neglect therefore provides a useful case to explore how professionals anticipate and respond to interagency barriers to referral when criteria and thresholds are only loosely defined, and collaboration is often ad hoc. To investigate the dynamics of interagency referral for self-neglect, we interviewed 69 practitioners: health and social care professionals; and fire and rescue, environmental health, and housing officers, all of whom regularly respond to both crisis and chronic situations of self-neglect. Dynamics that influence referrers and hinder coordination between interprofessional networks included uncertainties about the right route, perceived barriers to referral acceptance, and feeling unable to refer. These present barriers to the anticipatory labor needed to make interagency referrals land successfully with the receiving agency and may lead to a self-fulfilling cycle that discourages practitioners from thoughtful referral practice. Although referral failures are often treated in research on referral in safeguarding as a technical knowledge-deficit problem, the data show the significance of wider interagency relations, perceptions, and expectations in accounting for the barriers.</p>","PeriodicalId":50174,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interprofessional Care","volume":" ","pages":"31-39"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144555590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kara A Zamora-Rogoski, Rebecca T Brown, Anael Rizzo, Francesca M Nicosia
{"title":"Measurement of functional status in primary care: the role of the interprofessional team.","authors":"Kara A Zamora-Rogoski, Rebecca T Brown, Anael Rizzo, Francesca M Nicosia","doi":"10.1080/13561820.2025.2537124","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13561820.2025.2537124","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Measuring functional status allows clinicians to deliver evidence-based interventions to prevent or delay associated adverse outcomes. Functional status is seldom routinely measured in primary care settings where most older adults receive care. Interprofessional team-based care is increasingly regarded as an important feature of high quality and efficient health care systems. Yet despite growing evidence of the benefits of team-based care, in primary care there are not yet standards for how to operationalize interprofessional practice. In this study we explored interprofessional perspectives on assessing functional status among older adults in team-based VA primary care clinics. We conducted qualitative interviews with 57 primary care team members (nursing staff, primary care providers, and social workers) from six geographically diverse VA medical centers. We drew from implementation science frameworks and sociotechnical theories to ground our thematic analysis in dynamic, real-world contexts. Interviews revealed the view that all primary care team members play a role in measuring and addressing functional status. Participants also described a perceived hierarchy of accuracy of assessment based on role and outlined strategies for validating the accuracy of functional status assessments. These results can inform guidelines for functional status measurement in primary care that improve interprofessional assessment and team-based communication.</p>","PeriodicalId":50174,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interprofessional Care","volume":" ","pages":"67-75"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144735018","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Nantheka Nandakumaran, Ahkam Nihardeen, Lucylynn Lizarondo, Monica Moran, Andreas Xyrichis, Matthew McGrail, Martelle Ford, Marcos Riba, Priya Martin
{"title":"A mixed methods systematic review of interprofessional education and collaborative practice in rural healthcare settings.","authors":"Nantheka Nandakumaran, Ahkam Nihardeen, Lucylynn Lizarondo, Monica Moran, Andreas Xyrichis, Matthew McGrail, Martelle Ford, Marcos Riba, Priya Martin","doi":"10.1080/13561820.2025.2538083","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13561820.2025.2538083","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Interprofessional Education and Collaborative Practice (IPECP) involves healthcare workers and/or students from at least two professions working alongside patients, to improve the quality of healthcare provided. IPECP implementation in rural areas, however, lags due to limited resources and workforce shortages. This systematic review was undertaken to identify the enablers and barriers to the implementation of IPECP initiatives in rural healthcare settings. The JBI mixed methods review methodology and PRISMA guidelines were followed. Studies included peer-reviewed articles of IPECP initiatives implemented in rural healthcare settings identified in PubMed, Scopus, Embase, and Web of Science, alongside gray literature searches. Following screening, data were extracted and critically appraised using the Mixed Methods Appraisal Tool. Forty-eight papers were included in the final review. Enablers of IPECP in rural settings were student factors, supervisor and clinician factors, and strength of the community. Barriers included funding, resources and time constraints, lack of trained IPECP facilitators, and low prioritization of IPECP initiatives. The identified enablers and barriers of IPECP implementation in rural settings can inform further policy and practice developments. Future researchers could investigate strategies to aid IPECP implementation and use of longitudinal designs to assess their long-term impact.</p>","PeriodicalId":50174,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interprofessional Care","volume":" ","pages":"127-144"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144818064","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Interprofessional imagination: Leveraging interprofessional education to overcome structural barriers to health equity.","authors":"Peter S Cahn","doi":"10.1080/13561820.2025.2579541","DOIUrl":"10.1080/13561820.2025.2579541","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":50174,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Interprofessional Care","volume":" ","pages":"1-3"},"PeriodicalIF":2.6,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145507784","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}