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An investigation of interprofessional collaboration in stroke rehabilitation team conferences
Author(s) -
GIBBON BERNARD
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
journal of clinical nursing
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.94
H-Index - 102
eISSN - 1365-2702
pISSN - 0962-1067
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2702.1999.00240.x
Subject(s) - rehabilitation , intervention (counseling) , team effectiveness , action (physics) , nursing , team leader , dissemination , unit (ring theory) , psychology , medicine , medical education , physical therapy , knowledge management , political science , management , computer science , economics , law , physics , mathematics education , quantum mechanics
• The aim of this paper is to report a study examining the team processes occurring in team conferences in a stroke unit. • Team conferences provide an opportunity for all members of the rehabilitation team to report patients' progress and establish patients' rehabilitation goals. • The findings suggest that little discussion or consideration of alternative intervention plans are undertaken and that team conferences serve to disseminate decisions rather than establish patients' rehabilitation goals. • Core members of the rehabilitation team have developed specific roles. The physiotherapist `proposes' decisions which are `seconded' by the occupational therapist. The doctor acts to sanction decisions and the nurses action them. • Team conferences are effective for dissemination of decisions and for giving rise to a sense of team collaboration.