Chris Kenaszchuk

TL;DR: Qualitative findings of an interprofessional intervention designed to improve communication and collaboration between different professions in general internal medicine hospital wards in Canada suggested that the intervention did not produce the anticipated changes in communication and collaborated between health professionals, and allowed us to identify barriers to the implementation of effective collaboration interventions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explored the nature of interprofessional interactions within two general and internal medicine (GIM) settings in Canada and found that both formal and informal inter professional interactions between physicians and other health professionals were terse, consisting of unidirectional comments from physicians to other healthcare professionals.

TL;DR: This is the first large qualitative study of directly-observed talk amongst professions in general internal medicine wards, describing the content and usual conversation partners, with the aim of understanding the mechanisms by which current patterns of interprofessional communications may impact on patient care.

TL;DR: Longstanding emotion work issues must be addressed before nurses will engage collaboratively in collaborative nursing practice, and the refining of holistic nursing information, and reflections on practice by all interprofessional team members are suggested.

TL;DR: The paper begins development of a new interprofessional collaboration measurement scale designed for use with nurses, physicians, and other professionals practicing in contemporary acute care settings and investigates validity and reliability of data from nurses evaluating inter professional collaboration of physicians.