- Title
- Negotiating Intersections: Inter-Professional Practice in Rural Health Care Contexts
- Creator
- Parker, Vicki; Mitchell, Rebecca; McNeil, Karen; Ahrens, Yvonne; Higgins, Isabel; Parmenter, Glenda; Paliadelis, Penny; Giles, Michelle
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Text; Conference paper
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/74671
- Identifier
- vital:7007
- Identifier
- ISBN:1609-4069
- Abstract
- Health care in most contexts depends on teams of professionals with diverse skills working together synergistically to achieve optimal outcomes for patients and their families. The way is which interprofessional practice occurs in rural healthcare varies from that which occurs in metropolitan areas. This variation reflects the social, economic and geographic characteristics of rural communities. Further, rural workforce challenges and lack of access to resources and services are compounded by the difficulties associated with the intersection of speciality driven metropolitan models and the generalist models of care that are a feature of rural health care. This study’s aim was to examine how IPP happens in rural contexts, and to identify barriers, enablers and existing and potential models of IPP. Interviews were conducted with health professionals (nurses, doctors and allied health) in a range of rural healthcare contexts (Hospitals, GP practices, Multi-Purpose Services and Community centres) in NSW, Australia. Interview data were supplemented with document review and review of communication systems. Findings suggest that the nature of IPP in rural contexts is diverse and determined by a number of critical factors including rurality, connection to community, availability of staff, funding programs and specific interests and skills of staff. Rural IPP is characterised by a small numbers of professionals across few professions, focus on generalist practice and informal communication systems. IPP is growing in response to changes in government funding models and policy and through the establishment or strengthening of pivotal co-ordinating roles, with a clear mandate to involve other professionals and patients in decision making.
- Relation
- International Journal of Qualitative Methods Vol. 11, p. 750-751
- Rights
- © Vicki Parker 2012
- Rights
- Open access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1110 Nursing; 1607 Social Work
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