Advancing Teamwork in Healthcare: A Guide and Toolkit for Building Capacity and Facilitating Interprofessional Collaborative Practice and Education

Who is it for? (faculty, health administrators, clinical educators, and students) What stage of IPE? (i.e. planning, evaluation..) This guide and toolkit are intended to facilitate the identification and on-going development of interprofessional collaborative practice and learning environments (ICP & LE) within BC health authorities, and in conjunction with other process/systems, support the placement and […]

College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia – Working With Students Module

The Working With Students Module developed by the College of Registered Nurses of British Columbia is intended to provide clarity around the role of registered nurses and nurse practitioners when supervising students as learners or employed student nurses (ESNs). It outlines how to put into practice the Regulatory Supervision and Employed Student Registrant Practice Standards […]

Western – Preceptor Education Program (PEP)

The Preceptor Education Program is an online interprofessional program for students and preceptors, that consists of eight interactive learning modules. The modules cover various topics such as orientation, evaluation and conflict management. Many of the modules are designed in a way that allows preceptors and students to work through them together. Each module takes approximately 30-45 minutes […]

UBC – Health Communication Assessment Tool

The Health Communication Assessment Tool (HCAT), developed by UBC and Fairfield University, is intended for use in clinical simulations to evaluate the communication skills of student and professional healthcare providers. Evaluators using this tool can be faculty, peers, and participants. They are to observe a student interacting with a patient or their family and then […]

The individual Teamwork Observation and Feedback Tool (iTOFT)

The individual Teamwork Observation and Feedback Tool (iTOFT) was developed by a partnership of universities in response to the need for a structured means to observe and give feedback to student learners as they took part in an interprofessional teamwork task. Both basic and advanced versions of this tool have been developed and they are both formative assessments. […]

PRISM Retrospective Pre/Post Self-Assessment

The PRISM Retrospective Pre/Post Self-Assessment is meant to be completed by students at the end of their placement. This self-evaluation tool assesses areas of team functioning, collaborative working relationships, client/patient centred practice, trust, and communication. It’s retrospective pre-test/post-test design is helpful because it allows a comparison of student learning before and after the placement with one […]

Team-Based Competencies: Building a Shared Foundation for Education and Clinical Practice – Conference Proceedings

This published report summarizes a conference that was held to promote the advancement of interprofessional education. The document provides an overview of the importance of collaborative care and describes its core competencies. It also gives an account of the key learnings of the conference such as factors that advance and restrain interprofessional education. Lastly, it […]

Institute for Healthcare Improvement – Case Studies

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement has developed a number of case studies presenting problematic scenarios in the healthcare setting. Their purpose is to demonstrate to learners what changes to healthcare processes can be made in order to promote better outcomes. Each case study has specific learning objectives, discussion questions and corresponding facilitator and student handouts. Although these […]

Situation Background Assessment Recommendation (SBAR) Toolkit

The SBAR toolkit on the Institute of Healthcare Improvement website contains a poster, lessons plans, detailed guidelines on the use of the SBAR technique and more.The Situation-Background-Assessment-Recommendation (SBAR) technique is a structured communication model allowing individuals to convey a great deal of information in a succinct and brief manner. This technique is used when asking healthcare […]

Academic Health Council – Interprofessional Collaborator Assessment Rubric (ICAR)

The Interprofessional Collaborator Assessment Rubric (ICAR) developed by the Academic Health Council is intended to be used to assess student competencies in the areas of communication, collaboration, roles and responsibility, team functioning. and conflict management. The rubric can be applied across health care disciplines and in various learning contexts. It was not developed to coincide […]